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July 1989 columnist Warren Brookes surveyed the nation's Independence
Day celebrations and noted that Americans were about to "engage
willingly in activities that are thousands of times more dangerous than
the 'environmental risks'" President George H.W. Bush and the U.S.
Congress were committing hundreds of millions of dollars to stamp out
of existence. No, Brookes wasn't arguing for more stringent fireworks
regulation. Those taxpayer dollars, he wrote, were "trivial compared
with the dangers to our liberties and our sanity from the risk-free
agenda of the newest secular religionists, the 'ecotheologians'...who
are now busy shouting 'death' on a crowded planet." -[ The Man Who Saw Tomorrow]
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I'm not familiar with Brookes,
who passed in 1992 at age 62. Oh, I was aware of the
recent switch by the Paul Ehrlich crowd from global cooling to global
warming, but without the internet or Rush Limbo, we armchair
scientists were captive to PBS for eco-news, and PBS loved Paul Ehrlich.
| “ | "When
Columbus set sail for the New World, he was warned he would sail off
the edge into an unknown abyss," Brookes once quipped. "I am convinced
that one of those at the dock trying to get him to change his mind was
Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich's ancestor Pablo."
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This is an article my heart urges me to replicate in whole, but my brain says "WTF? Use the Link The Link" Wait ... one more snippet.
| “ | Brookes would not have been surprised by Gore's hubristic (and apparently incorrect)
guesstimation at Live Earth that "more than 2 billion of us have come
together in more than 130 countries on all seven continents" to "demand
action." In 1989 Brookes watched Gore's global warming presentation at
the National Press Club -- precursor to an Academy Award winning film,
in case you haven't heard -- during which the preening Man Who Wouldn't
Be King warned near-biblical droughts were imminent.
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It's been awhile since we screened the Penn & Teller episode on Global Warming,
so here it is again. It's an especially effective video because
Penn & Teller often take the liberal position in their Showtime"Bullshit" series, and since they use foul language, kids see them as counter culture ... which is good in this instance.
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