Sometimes it becomes too difficult to read certain articles because
TMR's buzzwords will be littered everywhere, making it so we think the piece should end with "read
The Macho Response and see!" Of course, that would be silly because, whether we're right or wrong - and, like Rush Limbaugh, we're "right 99.7% of the time" - we know nobody's really
reading this blog:
It's all about the photos. (In their wisdom, most read MSNBC.com.)
Anyway, a fine case-in-point is
this column in the
Globe and Mail by Margaret Wente, entitled, "Can environmentalism be saved from itself?"(The answer is "no".) After a few paragraphs we stopped reading, and started typing, because it's so obvious the writer is "singing our song" there was no need for us to go on.
We've pulled a major huge quote for you, and put our regularly-referenced phrases in bold, so there's no mistaking what we and Miss Wente are identifying as the real problems with environmentalists and their cult movement:
Maybe it was just a bad dream.
Just a year ago, 15,000 of the world’s leaders, diplomats, and UN officials were gearing up to descend on Copenhagen to forge a global treaty that would save the planet. The world’s media delivered massive coverage. Important newspapers printed urgent front-page calls for action, and a popular new U.S. President waded in to put his reputation on the line. The climate talks opened with a video showing a little girl’s nightmare encounter with drought, storms, eruptions, floods and other man-made climate disasters. “Please help the world,” she pleads.
After two weeks of chaos, the talks collapsed in a smouldering heap of wreckage. The only surprise was that this outcome should have come as a surprise to so many intelligent people. These people actually seemed to believe that experts and politicians have supernatural powers to predict the future and control the climate. They believed that experts know how fast temperatures will rise by when, and what the consequences will be, and that we know what to do about it. They believed that despite the recent abject failure of Kyoto (to say nothing of other well-intentioned international treaties), the nations of the world would willingly join hands and sacrifice their sovereignty in order to sign on to a vast scheme of unimaginable scope, untold cost and certain damage to their own interests.
Copenhagen was not a political breakdown. It was an intellectual breakdown so astonishing that future generations will marvel at our blind credulity. Copenhagen was a classic case of the emperor with no clothes.
Mercifully, nobody will pay attention to the climate conference at Cancun next week, where a much-reduced group of delegates will go through the motions. The delusional dream of global action to combat climate change is dead. Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme is dead. Chicago’s carbon-trading market is dead. The European Union’s supposed reduction in carbon emissions has been exposed as a giant fraud. (The EU is actually responsible for 40 per cent more CO2 today than it was in 1990, if you count the goods and services it consumed as opposed to the ones that it produced.) Public interest in climate change has plunged, and the media have radically reduced their climate coverage.
The biggest loser is the environmental movement. For years, its activists neglected almost everything but climate change. They behaved as if they’d cornered the market on wisdom, truth and certainty, and they demonized anyone who dared to disagree. They got a fabulous free ride from politicians and the media, who parroted their claims like Sunday-school children reciting Scripture. No interest group in modern times has been so free from skepticism, scrutiny or simple accountability as the environmental establishment.
Perhaps some good will emerge from the wreckage. (Humility, for example.) Now that global warming has stopped sucking all the oxygen out of the room, some of those who care about the planet will turn to other – and more pressing – problems. There are plenty. Humans are encroaching everywhere on habitats and species. Don’t worry about the polar bears, which have survived hundreds of thousands of years of melting and freezing ice. Worry instead about the lions and tigers, which face extinction within our lifetime. Their problem isn’t climate change. It’s us.
That's right:
We live with "activists" who are clearly delusional, gullible, foolish, and - most importantly - are willing to commit fraud to make us pay for it. That is the problem - our legions of highly-motivated fools.
And it's not just environmentalists. It's every group that falls under what, over time, we've outlined as the NewAge (rhymes with "sewage") movement. These people have swarmed us with their many wrong-headed issues, are willing to do
anything to get those issues legitimized, and will drag us all down to get there. Don't think failure is enough to stop them. They are the Borg. They will merely figure out another way to be wrong, but - whatever else they do - they. will. not. stop.
So what's the solution? NewAge leaders and icons should be humiliated and, where possible, jailed for fraud. That way, like followers of Mumia Abu-Jamal, NewAgers will have an issue they cannot win but will consume all their time and resources, leaving the rest of us free to get on with the other, legitimately important, things.
We think (since those in government and journalism have been found to be susceptible to such thinking) it's really the only way.
Plus - no matter how they phrase it - they
have been stealing our money.
