Mark Steyn: Unless we change our ways ...

National Post (Canada) ^ | 05/27/2002 | Mark Steyn

[Neophyte]

None of those things exist in the Middle East, which is the real reason they'll be taking communal showers once a month in 2032.

Well, that would constitute an improvement...

It would, but it won't. The buggers will avoid showers then exactly like they do it now - shortages or no shortages.

[MeekOneGOP]

well, off to G-boro for an interview.

Well, you're already there now, but I'm puttin' a big GOOD LUCK in yours sails!

[MeekOneGOP]

Most of the commentators put out their stuff and from time to time hit a homer.
But with Steyn, he gets a LOT of hits, LOTS of homers, and rarely hits a dud!
I don't know how he does it. Maybe he doesn't sleep? LOL!

[KeyWest]

ping

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks!

[Rocko]

Reference bump.

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

"We are going through a maturing process for the human species, and for the Earth," concluded Mr. Russell.

Yes, that is why we didn't ratify Kyoto. We have matured beyond non-solutions.

[RipSawyer]

I would recommend a vehicle appropriate for Big Al but, unfortunately, Chevrolet has stopped making Vegas.

[chilepepper]

Exactly. Socialism is about equality: you and he are equal, but I am special, an artist, an intellectual and of course as your glorious leader have special needs so I get first crack at everything...

[Joan912]

Ever since environmentalism has become a state-sanctioned religion, I have refused to participate in 'recycling and reusing'.

Paul Erlich is a moron who has never been correct about anything in his life. He has, however, made a healthy living off of his 'chicken little' agenda...

Mark Steyn is absolutely brilliant in this article!

[samtheman]

Since 1970, when the great northern forest was being felled to print Paul Ehrlich best-sellers, the U.S. economy has swollen by 150%; automobile traffic has increased by 143%; and energy consumption has grown 45%.

During this same period, air pollutants have declined by 29%, toxic emissions by 48.5%, sulphur dioxide levels by 65.3%, and airborne lead by 97.3%.

When will these facts be taught in the schools? Not soon, I'll wager.

The schools are a propaganda machine of the left.

[lds23]

I wish these predictors of species depletion would come get the groundhogs out of my shed. Mr. & Mrs. Groundhog just had 4 - count 'em FOUR - babies.

The end of my vegetable garden is nigh.

[MeekOneGOP]

Got it...........
The wife wanted me to have a steady paycheck for some reason.
I tried and tried to explain it to her, but she wouldn't listen.

LOL! Funny how that works, huh?
Congratulations! Glad everything worked out!

[VOA]

bump

[Tokhtamish]

It's politically incorrect to celebrate Christopher Columbus, but the discovery of the New World changed everything: what the enviro nazis leave out of their accounts, is that since the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West in the 4th century, Europe was in terminal decline. Few people reached the age of 40. A large number of children never outgrew their childhoods. Above it all, the threat of pandemics and starvation hung over the population like a Damoscles' sword. In 1350, a quarter of Europe's population was wiped out by the Black Death. A pretty dismal picture of our ancestors, no doubt. So how did Columbus change things? He introduced Europeans to the richness and bounties of the New World. To lands where their was more opportunity, a cleaner environment, and food to be had in abundance. One in which disease was remote and one no longer was confronted by the ever present prospect of starving to death. And in which the promise of a longer and longer human lifespan could finally be realized at last. In other words, the first true inviting paradise on earth. We should all thank God that Columbus had the fortitude to do what he did or we would all still be living in wretched, disease ridden, and filthy hovels. Just like millions do in the Third World today. So per Mark Steyn, let's have the enviro nazis (I prefer Eco-Jehovah's Witnesses) tell us again why we must change our ways...

The discovery of potatoes, which can be grown in soil too poor to grow grain, doubled European food production. Especially considering its attributes (cheap, filling, can be cooked in a wide variety of ways). And in fact one can argue that European need for American food products doomed Napoleon and Hitler. Adherence to Napoleon's Continental System and German GrossRaumWirtschaft meant cutting off your country from British-dominated global trade. So no tea, no coffee, no chocolate, no tobacco, no sugar, no rum, no spices, no tropical fruit, etc. No wonder their rule was so unpopular. Both Spain and Turkey knew what entering the war on the Axis side would cost their countries in terms of quality of life so they responded to Hitler's blandishments by setting impossibly high conditions.