Thursday, February 07, 2008

Green Treason

I know what you're asking
"But Rodge, why are you building a formidable  fighting machine designed to capture and throw down a volcano as many as 2 billion American liberal swine?

Over Berkeley
If not me, who?

Whether the next American president is black or white, the leading contenders have already declared themselves "green."

John McCain (and Huckaboo, and Romney) on the Republican side and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (and everyone else) for the Democrats, all promise to take dramatic action against man-made global warming if they win.

The problem is they all cloak this pledge in the same false, comforting, political rhetoric.

That is, that moving away from a fossil fuel based economy will be relatively painless once the "know how" of big business is applied to the task under their leadership.




[M]any environmentalists advocate redefining what "prosperity" means.

Indeed, they contend Canada's gross domestic product (GDP) is a poor tool for measuring our economic success, because it measures the wrong things.

For example, they argue, the cost of cleaning up environmental disasters caused by global warming, such as rebuilding New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, contributes to GDP growth in the U.S., thus interpreting it as a positive event economically, when it should be viewed negatively. Let's leave aside that the destruction of New Orleans was not caused by global warming ... .     [Beware the greening of America]


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah as part of his on-going effort to be relevant, John Kerry had blamed the recent tornados in the south on Global warming. Story here

Question - what kind of carbon foot print do nukes have?

TFV

Rodger the Real King of France said...

You know how there's good cholesterols? Well, there's good carbon footprints, and our nukes leave the good kind.

closed said...

According to the hippies, people are bad, and we are running out of oil resources.

Take them at their own word.

Convert hippies to biodiesel.

Anonymous said...

Kbarrett,
I like the way you think!

TFV

Anonymous said...

"Solyent Green -- it's hippies!"

I bet it would smell lousy when burned.

Anonymous said...

Hey Jack...It'd smell like patchouli and maryjane.....and B.O.& shit.

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