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May 24, 2007
Berkeley After Measure G: Totalitarian Envirohell
Posted by Dave Blount at May 24, 2007 9:00 PM
Just how far will the currently fashionable envirolunacy go before sanity reasserts itself? No one knows, but Berkeley offers a clue, having overwhelmingly passed Measure G, an absurd initiative mandating an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Now power-drunk bureauweenies are spelling out how this will be achieved.
The "good" news is that inmates of the asylum known as Berkeley will get "free" bus passes. Landlords will be compelled to buy them for tenants. The command-and-control socialists who dictate rent will generously allow the landlords to raise their rates $7 per month to defray the cost.
The bad news is that the militant hippies who run this freak show have successfully exploited the global warming hoax to extend their micromanagement to every last aspect of human existence.
Table scraps are to be composted. Normal light bulbs that don't turn your house into a toxic waste site if they break are banned, as are Wedgewood stoves and gas-powered water heaters. Builders will be allowed to use only recycled and "green" materials — even for small residential projects.
Energy will be created with inefficient solar panels. Property tax hikes will cover the outlandish costs.
Older appliances must be replaced. Insulation and windows must be upgraded. Garages must be equipped with outlets for electric cars. Can't afford it? Too bad.
Bureaucrats will track exactly how many "carbon units" individual citizens generate by keeping tabs on details not even Big Brother would have bothered with — what kind of car you drive, how far you drive it, how much waste you generate, how much energy you consume, etc., etc.
Don't like living under a magnifying glass? That's too bad too. Because it's not as if this escalating lunacy is limited to Berkeley.
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A Berkeley activist named Redwood Mary holds aloft her polar bear totem at a community event promoting the draconian greenhouse gas plan. Her fellow moonbats are beginning to achieve a level of totalitarian control over our lives that Stalin and Hitler never even imagined. |
On a tip from Mike.
