Sunday, July 16, 2006
RESOURCES WIELDED
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?