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June 5, 2007
jev2000 on the Global Warming Hoax and Liberal Priorities
Posted by Dave Blount at June 5, 2007 10:00 AM
From another Moonbattery comment that's too good not to have a post of its own, this one by jev2000:
Laurie David's consumption of fuel and energy is not commensurate with her stated worry about the future environment. Neither is Al Gore's.
Like the people who quietly and efficiently fixed Y2K without all the blather from the peanut gallery about the collapse of civilization as we know it, there are people out there who are quietly trying to fix the world's real problems.
While Gore and David and Suzuki rail on about global disaster in 100 years time, the following disasters are happening right now:
4,000,000 children under the age of 5 will die each year from lung disease brought on from cooking with wood or dung without proper stoves and ventilation.
32,000 people will starve tonight and every coming night, even though obesity is an epidemic.
40,000,000 people mostly in the 3rd world have HIV-AIDS. More than 20 million have already died, and as many as 68 million more deaths are forecast by 2020. Medication that now costs about $300 per year just can't be paid for.
Malaria kills millions in 3rd world countries. It is estimated that 408,388,000 people suffer from Malaria world-wide. It kills 3,000 children every day and more than one million each year. A few billion dollars could more or less eradicate the problem in a few years, but the liberal minded eco-junkies won't allow DDT to be used. It might hurt the people, forget the fact that the malaria is killing them.
Species are at risk of extinction, not from GW but from habitat destruction, for what? To get fuel to cook to survive another day or to mow down rain forest to plant soy beans and sugar cane to make the new wonder-fuel ethanol.
Gore says that 300,000 people will die because of GW in the next 20 years. Pretty small change compared to the millions that are already dying because they can't get food, drugs, energy and pesticides. One third of the planet doesn't have electricity. A billion people have no clean water. Half a billion people go to bed hungry every night.
But, as any good eco-lib would agree:
"This is as good a way to get rid of them as any."
Charles Wursta, Chief Scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.
Just in case the liberals reading this missed it, "them" refers to "all those little brown people in poor countries."
I'm a conservative type that rejects AGW, but I sure as hell care more about the problems of this planet more than Al or Laurie. All the liberal tub-thumping over AGW is not addressing today's real and vital problems.
Gore and David want us to commit to spending hundreds of trillions of dollars to delay an increase in temperature of 0.07 degrees C over 6 years, from 2050 to 2056. This will presumably save New York from drowning and save the lives of those 300,000, presumably white upper class, people that Gore seems to worry so much about. But it won't do anything to avoid the hundreds of millions of deaths from the diseases of poverty.
On the contrary, deliberately restricting economic growth in the name of the global warming hoax will prevent poverty from being alleviated. But at least the quaintly multicultural lifestyle of Third-World peasants starving in their dung huts will be preserved.
