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January 4, 2008
Jared Diamond Demands You Lower Your Standard of Living
Posted by Dave Blount at January 4, 2008 8:05 AM
Uh oh, another bright idea has been hatched by the liberal intelligentsia. Jared Diamond came out with this one in the course of a New York Times diatribe devoted to berating Americans for not living unspeakably wretched but politically correct Third-World lifestyles:
If most of the world's 6.5 billion people were in cold storage and not metabolizing or consuming, they would create no resource problem.
So that's why liberals seem to think the planet could never be cold enough.
Diamond's more serious ideas are even more disturbing. Terrified that poor countries might lift themselves out of poverty, he proposes imposing poverty on the entire world. That way poor countries won't mind being poor, because we'll have equality. As Diamond euphemistically puts it, we must see that "all countries converge on consumption rates considerably below the current highest levels."
This will solve the Islamic terrorism problem, because as wise liberals know, al-Qaeda is all about the haves and have-nots. Americans won't mind giving up the comfortable lifestyle we built for ourselves, since Europe is better than America, even though Europeans can't afford to consume as much.
Most horrifying of all is the notion of people who think of themselves as intelligent reading the evil ravings of moonbats like Jared Diamond and then nodding their heads knowingly as they head off to the polls to vote.
On a tip from Dave D.
