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Mark Steyn on the enviro elite:
I’m slightly depressed at the way climate hysteria seems to be so impervious to reality, what with Al Gore’s hit movie A Inconvenient Goof and Tom Brokaw’s documentary A Convenient Scare and both guys feuding over who’s the more devout climate jihadist. I guess if you’re assuming that you’ll still be zipping everywhere by private plane and it’s the other folks who’ll be on the bus it all makes sense.
At the heart of environmentalism is distaste for democracy: In the old days, “resources” were wielded by a few absolute monarchs and their courtiers. Now anybody willing to do a bit of work can have a pleasant home and a private carriage and the Gore-Brokaw retro-feudalists resent the vulgarity of it.
And how. In other modern monarch news:
Actor Brad Pitt and high-profile architects have urged New Orleans to think green, selecting a series of environmentally friendly housing projects they hope to build in the hurricane-hit city.
Flanked by prize-winning architect Thom Mayne and Pam Dashiell, president of the neighbourhood association in the Holy Cross area where the first project is slated to be built, Pitt said construction and housing were major sources of pollution.
While New Orleans prepares for life in Pitt-endorsed eco-huts, the actor has been scoping out 20-acre properties (complete with vineyards) in the Italian countryside. Also new from Steyn:
The median age in Gaza is 15.8 years old. How likely is it that any of those bespoke Palestinian “moderates” who’ve been permanent fixtures on CNN and BBC Middle East discussion panels for 30 years have any meaningful sway over a population of unemployed uneducated teenage boys raised by a death cult?
I watched a show on the Discovery Channel last night with a friend, and they had a commercial for Brokaw’s “documentary”. It lays on the fear factor something fierce; scary video shots of disasters, solemn pronouncements from learned boffins, and the appeal to your inner intellectual. Very silly, if you are not the type to watch TV with your brain turned off.
But immediately after that commercial, at least once, there was a Goodyear ad for tires, complete with off-road 4 wheelers, SUVs roaring through snow, dune buggies on the beach, everything that Algore and Brokaw preach against.
Thanks to the near-lethal levels of irony there, I almost choked on my drink laughing!
Pure gold.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 16 at 11:01 PM • permalinkNow anybody willing to do a bit of work can have a pleasant home and a private carriage and the Gore-Brokaw retro-feudalists resent the vulgarity of it.
This is an interesting point. I’m waiting for the left to start lecturing ‘developing’ countries about the level of pollution when in fact, as Steyn says, many of them simply want what your Williamsons, Brokaws and Gores despise.
What ever happened to just plain old conserving resources and getting rid of pollution? Why do we need some new bogeyman to scare us into being good Gaia worshippers? I live in Southern California, and smog here used to be really bad up until the 1990’s. It wasn’t global warming, but conservative California governors that passed strict emission controls, that got rid of it. Smog is still slightly here, but it is way better than it used to be. We recycle up the yin yang here too, so what’s left for the environazis to yell about? I love that bit that Tim linked a few weeks ago where the Earth, Moon, and Mars dissed Gore and Hawking. It’s true, whatever we do to the Earth, the Earth won’t care: it’ll be here long after whatever dreamed about annihilation comes, with only the cockroaches to keep it company.
Posted by joeschmo1of3 on 2006 07 17 at 12:36 AM • permalinkBrad Pitt’s dilemma:
A rescue helicopter burns about 50 gallons of aviation gas per hour. The next time New Orleans is under water, will Brad be protesting the use of hundreds of polluting helicopters flying thousands of hours to rescue people from his environmental friendly housing?Posted by perfectsense on 2006 07 17 at 01:45 AM • permalink#6 - I live in Southern California, and smog here used to be really bad up until the 1990’s.
There’s a former mining town in Tasmania (Queenstown) where it’s entire attraction is that was devasted by mining around 1900. In fact, when plants and tree started to grow on the slag and mullock heaps there was a discussion about whether they should be uprooted to preserve the ‘moonscape’.
Never criticise heavy, dirty industry - the tourist attractions of the future.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 07 17 at 02:00 AM • permalink#6 When Gaia was first described ‘it’ was put forward as a Personalising of the enormous survivability of the Earth Environment. Literal Pantheism.
The inventor of Her/Him knew that there had been numerous catastrophic events in the Earth’s past, but Earth has always found a way to bounce back and be very productive - so much so that it inspired his worship and awe.
Now the same guy seems to want his personal Earth-Gaia to be saved from all the person-humans it created.This sounds like a confused religion to me, and goes to show what a Failed God Gaia is after a very short life.
Couldn’t even cope with His/Her worshuppers.Allah be f*cked! the italics have run amok!
Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 07 17 at 03:30 AM • permalinkA week or so ago Showtime screened Team America - World Police. During the credits they showed an interview with the south park guys who produced it. They described how the original intention was not to be so political, but then they saw an interview with either one of the Baldwins (hey, I can never tell which one) or was it Sean Penn? Anyway, the topic was some geo political matter, and Trey thought it was ridiculous that a cossetted actor would have anything useful to say on the issue, and that valuable information gathering time on the news (poor as it is anyway) was used up by an interview by the git. As a result, the script was changed to the masterpiece it is today.
Thought that was quite interesting.
#6 - joeschmo1of3 - Cockroaches, dollarweed & my cellphone, which has gone through the wash cycle THREE TIMES without a glitch once the battery dried…I keep trying to get a new one, & it keeps rising from the dead!
Tech advances have given us cleaner-running autos and tougher cellphones. Life Is Good.
Did a little research recently on the recycling requirements so many places have passed & it’s amazing the lack of cost-effectiveness there. (Check John Stossel for some great columns on that) May be good for the city council’s deadbeat relatives to get jobs, though…
BrokeKaw is still a pretentious prick. Unfortunately, he’s not the only one.
Brokaw, Gore, IQ-challenged actors (pick your celebrity), they’re the by-products of a fabulously wealthy society that doesn’t just create and sustain useful work, but makes it possible for scare-mongering eco-panderers, armchair gulag commandants, historically ignorant islamophiliacs, and the whole twenty-mule team of blinder bedecked Bushophobes to make extremely comfortable livings peddling loco weed to the very large class of unthinking Bovidae who only know what they see on TV or what they read in the paper. Another Great Depression would probably thin these intellectualoids out, but that would be a mighty tall price for the rest of us to pay.
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Ya know, mud huts make the most sense to build. Low environmental impact and easy to heap back up after each levee break…