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September 16, 2007
Hanoi Jane Caused Global Warming
That Jane Fonda committed treason during the Vietnam War doesn't bother her fan base in the least. But maybe they will object to her having helped cause global warming with her hysterical propaganda movie The China Syndrome.
From the mouth of moonbattery itself, New York Times magazine:
"The China Syndrome" opened on March 16, 1979. With the no-nukes protest movement in full swing, the movie was attacked by the nuclear industry as an irresponsible act of leftist fear-mongering. Twelve days later, an accident occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in south-central Pennsylvania. […]
Although some radiation was released, there was no meltdown through to the other side of the Earth — no "China syndrome" — nor, in fact, did the T.M.I. accident produce any deaths, injuries or significant damage except to the plant itself.
What it did produce, stoked by "The China Syndrome," was a widespread panic. The nuclear industry, already foundering as a result of economic, regulatory and public pressures, halted plans for further expansion. And so, instead of becoming a nation with clean and cheap nuclear energy, as once seemed inevitable, the United States kept building power plants that burned coal and other fossil fuels. Today such plants account for 40 percent of the country's energy-related carbon-dioxide emissions. Anyone hunting for a global-warming villain can't help blaming those power plants — and can't help wondering too about the unintended consequences of Jane Fonda.
Fortunately for Hanoi Jane, true moonbats understand that the purpose of environmentalism is not to avert an imaginary climate crisis, but to inhibit and undermine civilization by any means possible. This she accomplished, as NewsBusters points out:
[A]nother finger that could be pointed at Fonda besides all the extra CO2 in the atmosphere is today's high oil and gas prices. After all, significantly less oil products would have been used in power plants that use such and homes that burn heating oil if more electricity was generated by nuclear facilities.
So, if you really want to pile on Fonda's foolishness, CO2 is only the beginning.
Regardless, maybe policymakers should look at how much damage was done by poor energy decisions decades ago — precipitated by alarmist eco-hysteria — and refuse to be bullied into the same mistakes today by folks like Al Gore who are similarly deluded as Fonda was back then.
Or, is that asking for too much from elected officials?
The apparent answer is yes. But what can you expect when those officials were elected by a populace that treats Hanoi Jane like royalty?
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 16, 2007 11:33 AM
Comments
Proving that Pete Townshend was more right than he could have possibly known in 1980:
I’m for nuclear power, but I haven’t told anyone because I am still hoping to f*** Jane Fonda, like everybody dreams of doing who’s involved in the No Nuke movement.
Seems ole Pete got his wish, Jane has been f***ing us all for over 30 years.
Posted by: COD at September 16, 2007 7:10 PM
Apparently every liberal solution has the opposite effect. Their poverty cures cause massive poverty, their antipollution measures cause even greater pollution, and their peace iniatives cause greater bloodshed. They should quit while they are ahead.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at September 16, 2007 9:06 PM
You'll notice Hanoi Jane's raised fist in the picture.
The raised fist (also other names, including clenched fist) is a symbol and salute most often used by communists, anarchists, socialists, leftists, pacifists, trade unionists and others in the left
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
Posted by: J.B. at September 16, 2007 11:32 PM
Doesn't she just look like the biggest jackass?
Posted by: First Glance at September 17, 2007 11:48 AM
If you beieve The Butterfly Effect, every conscious decision causes an alternative history in a parallel timeline, always with undesireable consequences. If Jane hadn't committed treason, the USA would have sprung forward in a burst of prosperity, covering the planet with nuclear power plants, paving the way for even more gas-guzzling SUVs and more global warming. We're damned if we do, damned if we don't. Even Winston Churchill understood how history hinges on key events. How many single things could have gone wrong to allow Germany to win WW II? "Edith Keeler must die Jim." Yes Spock, everybody must die eventually.
Posted by: the paperboy at September 18, 2007 7:40 AM
