Here's a good reason to start blogging again.
Global warming hysteria is now so widespread, so absolutely pervasive, that corporations are co-opting it as marketing. "Carbon Offsets" and other such laughable scams are big business. And my kids, not even old enough to begin official indoctrination in school, get the new gospel via cartoons. And it's not even controversial at all! It is becoming the new national religion.
This excerpt from a Mark Steyn article really captures the problem with the modern environmentalist movement.
The biofuels debacle is global warm-mongering in a nutshell: The first victims of poseur environmentalism will always be developing countries. In order for you to put biofuel in your Prius and feel good about yourself for no reason, real actual people in faraway places have to starve to death. Read the whole article here.
Ethanol was a bad idea from the start. It exists because it makes Global Warmists feel better about themselves - a clear violation of separation of church and state, in my opinion.
Not nearly as surprising is how quickly people will turn on the whole thing when gas and food prices go up a little bit. That's the trouble with religion - it's all fun and games until they start asking you to make sacrifices.
3 comments:
Amen.
I love this post. Great to have you back to blogging!
Can I copy you and declare myself an "unbeliever" too? It's all so bogus, especially since it's become a trend in the entertainment industry. I am so amazed when I find out that people I know, whom I thought were pretty intelligent, reasonable people (and probably still are, somewhat) become followers of the "green" machine. I heard someone say how it's "arrogant" of any human being to think that they can destroy the earth before life on earth destroys them. Something like that.
Keep em coming Jim!
I COMPLETELY agree. I am such an unbeliever of global warming and I think Al Gore is a fraud. It's very frustrating because according to the media, if you're not on the "green" band wagon you're an outcast to the rest of the United States. This whole thing is nuts! I hope it's a trend that is soon to be over.
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