As I went to Google to research a court case on the Supreme Court censoring high school newspapers, Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, I came upon this load of hysterical crap on the Google home page. Today is Earth Day, the 37th at that. To commemorate this, I will burn several old computers, some tires and release 12 cans of aerosol hairspay into the atmosphere, just kidding.
In my younger days I cared about the enviroment as a child does, Ranger Rick magazine and Boy Scouts made me appreciate our wilderness and Mother Earth. But along the way it became cool and political, Al Gore the poster child of revisionist enviro-political love. Then the anti-globalization crusade with a number of socialist driven individuals hijacked the cause. Apparently Google has taken the bait and joined by bringing the "man-caused global warming" myth and Earth Day together as well. This comes from the same billion dollar corporation that allowed China to hunt down dissidents.
Long story short, you don't stop shaving your armpits and hug a tree to love the planet, but carbon offsets make you a hypocrite. There was a mildly thought provoking piece from the L.A. Times about the this ideology, Forget the whales -- save the Earth.
Environmentalism is dead because the vast majority of environmental causes simply don't matter any more. They don't matter in the way that holding a full house doesn't matter when the guy across the table is holding four aces.
Traditional environmental concerns have been trumped by a single, overriding problem: global climate change. Henry David Thoreau asked, "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
The article leans strongly to the global warming crowd, but it is a polite little op-ed to make you think. And it does talk about nuclear energy and its supporters in the old environmentalist vanguard.
old-school environmentalists Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, and Stewart Brand, who created the Whole Earth Catalog, have embraced nuclear power as a lesser evil than climate change. Are environmentalists entering an era of wrenching hand-wringing as they choose among evils?
This Earth Day, Greenpeace and its fellow environmental ecclesiasts will once again call on their flocks to take action. By all means, let us safeguard the environment - but with steps rooted in fact, not myth.
Read his piece as he mentions some facts like:
our overall per-capita timber consumption is half of what it was a century ago.
Result? According to the Forest Service, we have actually seen a net reforestation since 1985. We aren't losing forestland, we're gaining it.
alternative fuels can be as land-hungry as agriculture. The typical 1,000 megawatt coal or nuclear plant might sit on a few acres. To generate the same amount of electricity with renewables would require 60,000 acres for a utility-scale wind farm, or about 11,000 acres of photovoltaic cells capturing the sun's light.
3 comments:
fine!..just for u I'll go outside an hug mah tree k?..lol :)
Hmm... You mean that some things have gotten drastically better, and the MSM won't report it?
Shock, shock...
I'm going to drive around to places I don't need to go, and burn some styrofoam. ;)
Now I have to limit my toliet paper use during my 7:05 every morning or I will melt the icecaps and flood the world.
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