[moyden]

Environmentalim = socialism.

[Balding_Eagle]

Destroying Capitalism is the goal

Enviromentalism is the tool.

[lstanle]

"Mr. Stott is a professor emeritus of biogeography at the University of London. "

I didn't realize there was this much logic in the whole of England.

[o_zarkman44]

The third world hates American because we have made the best use of our resources and have become very well off because of that. Yes we have electricity and running water and air conditioned homes and to the third world I must tell you that it is indeed very nice. And you should have the same stuff.

But I am tired of sharing my wealth with people who have squandered opportunity after opportunity to develop their own resources. I am tired of sharing with countrys that have restricted development because of ongoing barbaristic tribal wars. I am tired of countries blaming colonialism for their problems.

Now those poor countries think they can EXTORT America into giving up our lifestyle because of the environment. It isn't my fault you poor 3rd worlders are growing up in a desert with no water. You have had many opportunities to bring water to your area. But you would rather battle the next village over the grazing of goats, while we in America have built some of the greatest dams and irrigation systems in the world because America knows how to cooperate and gain the best of the natural resources available.

Now the sissy 3rd world thinks America should not have the best of everything because they can't handle the responsibility of developing into a true civilization. Thank your dictators for keeping you down in subservience. Ask your Dictators where all the Billions of Dollars of Aid to help you develop has gone. Ask your dictators why the developed world no longer sends engineers and teachers to your country.

The one thing that will help a country develop is stability. Stability of the people. Stability of the Government. Stability is the one thing that America has been proud to have, and the single largest reason WHY we have the things we have. Yet you 3rd world countries seek to destabilize America in the name of the environment. We have tried to help you ALL in the past. Given you money and teachers and food. Perhaps that is the failure of American foreign policy?

Giving to the ungrateful only creates more greed. Giving you food does not motivate you to find your own way to grow food. Giving you teachers does not motivate you to nurture new teachers. Well I for one am tired of giving to the ungrateful who complain we have too much. I am tired of giving to the unmotivated. I am tired of giving to Dictators who have stolen what should have been taken to the people and become rich.

If you want what I have you either have to earn it, or take it over my dead body you 3rd world nations. And America should pull out of the UN. Since the UN seems to stand for UNITED NOTHINGS" we cannot associate with losers anymore.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Sustainability will always fail because it does not take change and dynamism as the norm. It seeks to curb evolutionary growth in the face of chaotic change.

Great post of an excellent article. Should be read by all and understood as a warning to destroy the enviromentalist philosophy wherever we see it. It is dangerous.

[m1911]

Despite the fact that most photovoltaic cells take more energy to produce than they will ever generate in their lifetime

I've seen this a couple of times but I can't find good evidence on it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[madfly]

ping

[tubebender]

Bookmarked a great post...

I heard a comment on the radio yesterday by one of these nuts in SA saying something along the lines of "There is a sea of poverty with islands of wealth and those islands must share their good fortune with the less fortunante" That is not verbatim but close...Grrrr

[Faraday]

Excellent post. It is this kind of thinking that has made the US, and other capitalist outposts, the desired destination of the ambitious poor, stuck in socialist hell-holes, the world over.

[Consort]

Neo-Druids.

[thinktwice]

nuclear power, no, solar energy, yes. (Despite the fact that most photovoltaic cells take more energy to produce than they will ever generate in their lifetime.)

I had no idea that that producing most photovoltaic cells requires more energy than they'll ever produce.

Thank you WSJ, and Mr Stott.

[dfwgator]

What's more telling is that when you actually try to point out the absurdity of this so-called "Sustainable Development", all they can muster is to simply label a person as an "isolationist", without ever weighing the merits of the argument.

[WaterDragon]

The weirdest thing about old lefties (communists) like Paul Erlich is that they call themselves "progressives."

They are just plain old psychopaths, the kind that have been around for millions of years, wanting power over people's lives. Just HUNGRY for power. Period.)