Wacky Eco-Kooks Whining About Looming End Of Life On Earth
These whiny lefty eco-nuts are getting all bent out of shape because the oceans seem to be nearing a "tipping point" at which "scores" of marine species may die out. But why these alarmist kooks think this will matter is beyond me. Who needs fish? Or marine life at all, for that matter? How will the extinction of 20 or 40 or 80 species affect ExxonMobile's bottom line? Or U.S. national security?
"Oooh, we're creating the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years..." "Oooh, we're destroying the planet..." God, these people make me sick. If they love the ocean so much, maybe they should go and live there.
On a more serious note:
Anybody understand why it is that we HAD to invade Iraq because they MIGHT have had some WMDs, whereas the fact that we are rather clearly headed for environmental disaster doesn't seem to matter to these people at all? In the former case the administration came off as so risk-averse that they seemed like downright sissies. But--in the words of one of the commentors on this blog--if (e.g.) the most widely-accepted global warming predictions turn out ot be true, it will make an atom bomb in Manhattan seem "like a paper cut."
These whiny lefty eco-nuts are getting all bent out of shape because the oceans seem to be nearing a "tipping point" at which "scores" of marine species may die out. But why these alarmist kooks think this will matter is beyond me. Who needs fish? Or marine life at all, for that matter? How will the extinction of 20 or 40 or 80 species affect ExxonMobile's bottom line? Or U.S. national security?
"Oooh, we're creating the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years..." "Oooh, we're destroying the planet..." God, these people make me sick. If they love the ocean so much, maybe they should go and live there.
On a more serious note:
Anybody understand why it is that we HAD to invade Iraq because they MIGHT have had some WMDs, whereas the fact that we are rather clearly headed for environmental disaster doesn't seem to matter to these people at all? In the former case the administration came off as so risk-averse that they seemed like downright sissies. But--in the words of one of the commentors on this blog--if (e.g.) the most widely-accepted global warming predictions turn out ot be true, it will make an atom bomb in Manhattan seem "like a paper cut."
posted by Winston Smith at
12:03 PM
3 Comments:
Granta devoted an issue to this topic about a year ago. It's worth checking out, but very depressing.
Time to fire up those nuclear reactors, baby...
I'm willing to consider nuclear, actually...but I'm inclined to think that Big Bidness isn't competent enough to run nuclear plants without inevitable disaster.
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