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January 4, 2008
Jared Diamond Demands You Lower Your Standard of Living
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 4, 2008 8:05 AM
Comments
Al Gore, Arianna Huffington, John Edwards, and Jared Diamond are, of course, exempted from the requirement to diminish their own quality of life.
Posted by: V the K at January 4, 2008 8:32 AM
Is Jared Diamond related to the nutcase Dustin Diamond (Screech on the insipid teen sitcom Saved By The Bell)? I'll bet they are part of the same gene pool - a pool badly in need of large quantities of chlorine.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 4, 2008 8:40 AM
Maybe it's wrong to kick someone when she's down, but, my tip of the day is The Charm and Grace of Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her own words.
Posted by: V the K at January 4, 2008 8:53 AM
"The world is already running out of resources"
Can someone please name one resource necessary for life that the world has run out of?
I also found this quote enlightening "Let’s also make things easy by imagining." Easy indeed.
Posted by: mandy at January 4, 2008 8:57 AM
The world has been "running out of resources" since 1968 when the infamous Club of Rome and the Limits of Growth said
"The world would run out of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987, zinc by 1990, petroleum by 1992, and copper, lead, and natural gas by 1993."
Posted by: Anonymous at January 4, 2008 10:12 AM
Actually that was 1972 not 1968.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 4, 2008 10:12 AM
Just as long as we have plenty of Soylent Green, Anonymous!
Posted by: KHarn at January 4, 2008 2:36 PM
