[NeoCaveman]

When the oil runs out, we won't notice because our SUVs will be powered by something else. Bet on human ingenuity every time. We're not animals, and it's a cult as deranged as the screwiest fringe religion to insist we are. Earth's most valuable resource is us.

Steyn hits another homerun

[NeoCaveman]

Ping for your MSLP.

[AndrewSmith]

Right, there is no such thing, however, its a good concept that allows more development of a world government system, and such a cause empowers the UN, as well.

More global government.

A world tax.

Global environmental wackoism.

All of this boils down to power hungry marxists trying to see how much they can get away with.

[SteamshipTime]

The oppressed masses refuse to stay oppressed. If they were down in the basement chained to the great turbines, all would be well. But, instead, they insist on moving out of their tenements, getting homes with non-communal bathrooms, giving up the trolley car, putting a deposit down on a Honda Civic and driving to the mall.

Outta the park. Here's a great article on the Johannesburg "summit." Apparently, it's such a farce even the eco-Left can't spin their way out of it.

[SuziQ]

"Will each home have 10 rooms and a swimming pool and, if so, where are we going to build them?"

Hmmm. I'd like to have me one of them! We're going to look at a house today that sits on 6.7 acres and has a swimming pool AND a tennis court! So there, enviro-weenies!

We'd probably confound them all to hell and back though because one of the reasons we wanted such a large piece of land is that we'd like to set up the house with solar hot water to do under the floor radiant heating. And if the price of photovoltaic cells would come down, we might even consider getting off the grid! The house has its own well and septic system, and if we set up a rainwater collection and filtration system, we could be self-sustaining in the middle of MA! Not something they'd expect of a couple of conservatives, is it?

[Norman Conquest]

Steyn gets 24-hour lesbian channels on his cable? Why don't I get that on my Time Warner system?

[Dark Wing]

ping

[Charlotte Corday]

When it was just medieval dukes swanking about like that, things were fine: That was "sustainable" prosperity.

Exactly - and check out the ads in any environmentalist rag if you want to see who their target audience is - hint, it sure ain't the working class. "Pull up the ladder, I'm aboard" is definitely the agenda.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Only Mark Steyn could brighten up the day I'm having. For this, sir, I thank you.

[razorback-bert]

"I don't think a lot of electricity is a good thing," says 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 continues, globally warming to his theme and regretting that African peasants "who used to spend their days and evenings in the streets playing music on their own instruments and sewing clothing for their neighbours on foot-pedal powered sewing machines",

I assume Gar still uses a manual typewriter and washes his clothes in the creek.

[goldstategop]

Human beings are marvelous in being able to create a better life for themselves and the vistas they've created look even more inviting for every generation that follows. The thing Mark Steyn is making a point about is the post-Marxist Left has inverted the traditional canon of Marxism upside down: traditional Marxists believed in the importance of industrialization and making workers wealthier through the dint of their own efforts than that of the capitalist overlords they replaced. In stark contrast, the post-Marxist Left believes in exalting the simplicity of the primeval life and in ensuring poverty gets distributed equally amongst humanity around the planet. Poor Karl Marx is no doubt spinning in his grave. The Left has completed its own devolution back to the Stone Age whilst the rest of us have long left Fritz Lang's famous dystopia behind in the dust.

[tictoc]

Mark Steyn, you crack me up again. Hooray!