Posted on 05/04/2011 6:56:48 AM PDT by Lakeshark
George Monbiot of the left-leaning British newspaper The Guardian has a must-read column in which he admits that because of a whole series of intellectual mistakes, the global green movement’s policy prescriptions are hopelessly flawed.
Read the whole piece for a thoughtful and brutally clear expose of the intellectual bankruptcy of the green movement from one of the smartest people in it. This is what I’ve been getting at for more than a year here: regardless of what is happening to Planet Earth, the green movement does not have coherent and workable solutions.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.the-american-interest.com ...
The Green Movement is suicidal. It was never interested in coherent or workable solutions.
“I hope that by laying out the problem I can encourage us to address it more logically, to abandon magical thinking and to recognise the contradictions we confront. But even that could be a tall order.”
Tall order? What an optimist!
Most of the country is now fully aware that the enviro-hysteria was nothing but a bunch of bunk, and that many of the people pushing it are liars.
“The Green Movement is suicidal. It was never interested in coherent or workable solutions.”
You touch the heart of the matter. All leftist movements are to some extent deformed with guilt and self loathing. “Greens” have carried it to its almost final extreme, embracing a hatred for our very species.
Green movement is about socialism and state control, it has been wildly successful.
There’s a misspelling. The headline says ‘lost’; the correct spelling is ‘fools’.
George MoonBat.......how apropos................
Clicking through twice, Monbiot suggests going to ~50% of current energy use. To put that in perspective, that would put the U.S. back to roughly mid-1960s levels of electrical energy consumption on a per-capita basis. Energy is a fundamental driver of economic activity. Are we really going to accept the poverty that such a move would create at the hands of our Green extremists? Screw that!
just wait till we get a solid majority in this country and GE executives start going to jail...
“just wait till we get a solid majority in this country and GE executives start going to jail...”
A nice dream, but it’s just about as likely as the Buckeye football team surviving this coming season.
>>> Top Green Admits: “We Are Lost!”
George Monbiot .... admits that because of a whole series of intellectual mistakes, the global green movement’s policy prescriptions are hopelessly flawed. <<<
No worries, George Moonbat-idiot, your global green movement only suffered a temporary setback.
The current young generation and the next generation have all been thoroughly indoctrinated.
They do all the right things in little, inconsequential ways, put out green signs and flags, they vote for democrats, but they never change their lifestyle in ways that show they really believe what they are saying.
It's all show to make themselves feel better.
The original article is a fairly objective about the trade-offs and fact that there is no free lunch:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/02/environmental-fixes-all-greens-lost
Most people fail to understand the basic science involved, and keep hoping for some magic to happen that will remove the fundamental trade-offs and make everything sunshine and roses. Must like the article I posted yesterday about the NJ suburb that is adding solar panels to it’s utility poles, the fist thing you hear is bitching about them being “eyesores”.
We have yet to figure out how to cost-effectively come anywhere near the energy density of a gallon of gasoline.
In a rational world where politicians were objective and didn’t throw their support behind retarded movements, this would be good news. But alas, as long as a politician supports it, he has the power to keep it going regardless of whether it works or not.
In a rational world where politicians were objective and didn’t throw their support behind retarded movements, this would be good news. But alas, as long as a politician supports it, he has the power to keep it going regardless of whether it works or not.
A few weeks ago an article was posted about the English energy minister (or some other title) commenting about the future. He said the British were just going to have to get used to doing without electricity when demand was high, due to increased dependence on “green” energy. They will divert power to those that need it most. Anyone have their “smart” meters yet? They just put mine in. They will be able to shut off individual homes or businesses if they want.
Ping.
BFl
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