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October 18, 2007
Crackpot Solutions to Imaginary Global Warming Crisis
Even if global warming isn't all that frightening, the proposed solutions to it range from inconvenient to terrifying. Andrew Bolt lists a few:
- Feed people to trees by foregoing cremation and burying corpses at the base of trees.
- Use "alternatives" to air-conditioning.
- Travel by "solar power blimps" instead of jets.
- Travel less.
- Shower shorter.
- Use inferior low-energy light bulbs.
- Eat kangaroos instead of cattle.
- Ban high-energy LCD TVs.
- Hang wet clothes all over the yard instead of using the dryer.
Now for some scary ones:
Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery has called for our population to be cut by up to a third, and ABC radio even ran a lecture by a green zealot suggesting we "put something in the water, a virus that would be specific to the human reproductive system and would make a substantial proportion of the population infertile."
We'll also need to jettison democracy:
Of course, you'll console yourself with the thought that nobody could ever force such schemes on you. Not in a democracy. But the faithful have thought of that problem, as Professor David Shearman, an assessor with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, explained this week on ABC radio.
"Do you believe that climate change can be arrested under our own sacrosanct system of liberal democracy?", he sneered. We voters would never agree to the "solution" to global warming, and "this condemns democracy".
Shearman, a medico, had a better idea: "If you were a patient in the intensive care unit, would you wish each decision made authoritatively by a medical expert or by a democratic committee?"
You don't have to scratch the flaky surface of environmentalism very hard to reveal the totalitarian, antihuman moonbattery festering underneath. If communism resulted in 100 million deaths, what horrors might the increasingly militant environmentalist movement have in store for us?
Posted by Van Helsing at October 18, 2007 9:26 AM
Comments
I suggest beginning the 'thinning' with Mr. Flannery and his family.
Posted by: Jimbo at October 18, 2007 10:18 AM
And if it works on the trial run with Mr. Flannery's family, the government could offer tax rebates to Liberals that wish to contribute to population reductions.
Posted by: joe-6-pack at October 18, 2007 11:05 AM
Two ideas:
Draft a third of the population to execution centers. Start with registered Democrats.
Open a hunting season on Moonbats. Also reduces global whining.
Posted by: the paperboy at October 18, 2007 4:16 PM
yes, jimbo - as long as he goes first!
Posted by: nanc at October 19, 2007 9:45 AM
Ummm, didn't they condemn China for enforced population control? Double standard, or just really don't realize it's a new coat of paint on an old issue?
Posted by: Erin_Coda at October 21, 2007 9:48 AM
