Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Fear and Hysteria at the Guardian

One hears a lot from the leftists that people on the right exploit fear. For example, Noam Chomsky says:
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Michael Moore often plays this card as well. It's as if terrorists are mostly just bogeymen made up by the right.

But where else can you find anything more hysterical than the fear mongering about Global Warming doomsday scenarios? I was taking a look at The Guardian today, and they take fear to a new level in this article:

If it is too late to prevent runaway climate change, the Bush team must carry much of the blame. His wilful trashing of the Middle Climate - the interlude of benign temperatures which allowed human civilisation to flourish - makes the mass murder he engineered in Iraq only the second of his crimes against humanity

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Is it too late? To say so is to make it true. To suggest there is nothing that can be done is to ensure that nothing is done. But even a resolute optimist like me finds hope ever harder to summon.

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The trajectory both Barack Obama and Gordon Brown have proposed - an 80% cut by 2050 - means reducing emissions by an average of 2% a year. This programme, the figures in the Tyndall paper suggest, is likely to commit the world to at least four or five degrees of warming, which means the likely collapse of human civilisation across much of the planet. Is this acceptable?

My brother made a good point that Environmentalism is the new religion. Built in is the clause that if you don't believe, the WORLD WILL END! So start believing now!

7 comments:

  1. All that leads to micro-level annoyances such as this;

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081127.wbags27/BNStory/National/home

    I am definitely not going to carry around a satchel made of cloth to go grocery shopping. It's not the least bit practical.

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  2. You know at some point the patient has to ask is the cure worse than the disease? The extremes some want to go to curb green house gasses have me believing i'll be behind a horse with a hoe in hand harvesting my own food in no time. WTF? Live with the compromise and let me live how I want to live.

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  3. I saw that about Toronto and the bags. It's not convenient at all and will make no difference.

    I think many enviro nuts would actually like us to go back to horse and plow.

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  4. Many enviro nuts would love it if we stopped pro-creating altogether. Humans are a plague on the earth.

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  5. It's like that nasty character in the movie "Naked" when talking about contagious diseases: "The world is over-populated anyway. It could use with a little pruning."

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  6. Enviro-nuts would have no problem with us being poor substistance farmers.

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  7. Yes, this is why so many Marxists have found a home and righteous cause in the environmental movement. I can't tell the difference between them these days. You could even say the (the once reasonable?)movement has been hijacked by the looney left.

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