Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/13/2009 6:02:50 AM PDT by La Lydia
...I always enjoy it when the mask slips and the warm-mongers explicitly demand that we adopt a massive poverty expansion program to save the planet.
"I don't think a lot of electricity is a good thing," said Gar Smith of San Francisco's Earth Island Institute..."I have seen villages in Africa that had vibrant culture and great communities that were disrupted and destroyed by the introduction of electricity." He regretted that African peasants "who used to spend their days and evenings in the streets playing music on their own instruments and sewing clothing on foot-pedal-powered sewing machines" are slumped in front of "Desperate Housewives" reruns...
One assumes Mr. Smith is sincere in his fetishization of bucolic African poverty with its vibrantly rampant disease and charmingly unspoiled life expectancy in the mid-40s. However, when a hereditary prince starts attacking capitalism and pining for the days when a benign sovereign knew what was best for the masses, he gives the real game away....
Environmentalism...seeks to return us to the age of kings, when the masses were restrained by a privileged elite...Sometimes they will be merely the gilded princelings of the government apparatus -- President Obama; Rep. Barney Frank and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In the old days, they were endowed with absolute authority by God. Today, they're endowed by Mother Nature, empowered by Gaia to act on her behalf. But the object remains control -- to constrain you in a million ways, most of which would never have occurred to Henry VIII, who, unlike the new "cap-and-trade" bill, was entirely indifferent as to whether your hovel was "energy-efficient." The old rationale for absolute monarchy -- divine right -- is a tough sell in a democratic age. But the new rationale -- Gaia's right -- has proved surprisingly plausible.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Somehow I seriously doubt any of those villages has seen a day of subzero weather.
I really think idiots should not attempt to apply solutions which fit one area to the entire planet without coming up here and showing us how it is done first.
They want us to live in caves.
bttt
Aahh, those quaint African communities that washed their clothes and bathed in rivers with nature... and crocodiles.
The beautiful sunset of their lives at one with the world around them... while they beg someone with their eyes to swat the flies away from eating their flesh before they are dead.
And who can forget those beautiful babies... left to die on the street when their six year old sibling is too tired from disease to care for them when their mother is dead from massive intestinal disease after drinking water that has human feces in it.
To be back at one with nature. Stupid electricity! Ruining it all!
Yep.
But there are not enough caves to go around, and the sanitary facillities are limited. Which is why we started building our own caves...out of wood, brick, etc.
It is unfortunate these folks haven't figured that out yet and are intent on reinventing the wheel--or not.
The prince is a putz.
One should not trust the judgment of a man who ditched a fox like Diana in order to marry Seabiscuit.
It means for every rural third-worlder who does not use electricity, and is kept incapable of accessing electricity, emissions "traders" can sell permissions for other companies to make electricity.
Of course, part two of the equation is that India and China are exempt from limiting their energy production.
Conclusion: Do we want to live in a brown-out world in our own country, plus, at the same time prevent poor people around the globe from improving their lives in any way. How does that equal 'fairness' and 'compassion.'
I suspect that the thought of this moron as King has kept Queen Elizabeth on the throne long beyond an age when abdication might have seemed a pleasant idea.
Just as the thought of Biden in the White House is the best life insurance policy Obama could have.
It doesn't. But then, neither fairness nor compassion enter into the equation. Control and lucre are the objectives, nothing more.
Exactly what you say! That is why this may be the best way to expose the true nature/ no pun intended/ of what those who seek to control us really want.
I also like to tell people that our Constitution forbids a State religion, yet many politicians and most educators in government-financed schools have made Environmentalism a religion. It is based on “beliefs” just as any other set of religious tenets is based on beliefs.
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