December 2, 2010

Heh - environmentalism in the news

From the Toronto, CA Globe and Mail:
Can environmentalism be saved from itself?
Maybe it was just a bad dream.

Just a year ago, 15,000 of the world�s leaders, diplomats, and UN officials were gearing up to descend on Copenhagen to forge a global treaty that would save the planet. The world�s media delivered massive coverage. Important newspapers printed urgent front-page calls for action, and a popular new U.S. President waded in to put his reputation on the line. The climate talks opened with a video showing a little girl�s nightmare encounter with drought, storms, eruptions, floods and other man-made climate disasters. �Please help the world,� she pleads.

After two weeks of chaos, the talks collapsed in a smouldering heap of wreckage. The only surprise was that this outcome should have come as a surprise to so many intelligent people. These people actually seemed to believe that experts and politicians have supernatural powers to predict the future and control the climate. They believed that experts know how fast temperatures will rise by when, and what the consequences will be, and that we know what to do about it. They believed that despite the recent abject failure of Kyoto (to say nothing of other well-intentioned international treaties), the nations of the world would willingly join hands and sacrifice their sovereignty in order to sign on to a vast scheme of unimaginable scope, untold cost and certain damage to their own interests.

Copenhagen was not a political breakdown. It was an intellectual breakdown so astonishing that future generations will marvel at our blind credulity. Copenhagen was a classic case of the emperor with no clothes.
Leviathan is becoming self aware and realizing that the environmental movement is a political one and not a scientific one. It is all about power and control. Always has been, always will be. The 600+ comments are worth reading... Posted by DaveH at December 2, 2010 12:21 PM
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