GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Welcome to the Green World...

Rex Murphy of the Globe & Mail nails it....
If the industrial economies of the world are in a forced slowdown, if auto companies - the manufacturers of those demonic gas-guzzling SUVs - are facing ruin, if long-standing business are cutting their work forces by 20 per cent and 30 per cent and 40 per cent, if people are buying less and, consequently, business is making less, then surely the entire world's carbon emissions are, per necessitatem, going down. The world is burning less oil, because the world is doing less.

This is true on the smaller, more private scale as well. People in the grip of economic hardship will travel less, shop less. They will make do with what they have. Millions of people the world over are retrenching, determined to stay within their means. To coin a phrase, this will represent millions of (forced) green acts.

Thus, though it may be cruel and ironic, what the preachments of Al Gore and David Suzuki have failed to achieve, the crisis of the world's banking systems and consequent recession will accomplish. What their stark cries of alarm over imminent planetary collapse, the rise of the oceans and the plight of the polar bear could not move people and governments to do voluntarily, the iron laws of economic crisis will effect. What Kyoto speciously promised, the downturn, in part, will deliver. Surely, however bitter the means, this is good news from their perspective.

It would, of course, be tasteless to celebrate the fact. There is a lot of misery for a lot of people when good times turn to bad. But it would be almost unnatural for those who have been warning the rest of us for nearly two decades that we are in a "planetary emergency" - that we must forswear our dependence on fossil fuels, that petroleum is evil, that the oil sands are the dirtiest project on the planet - not to take some uplift that what they have wished for (however inadvertently) has come to pass.

Curiously, however, we hear very little from them of this "upside" to the current crisis. Maybe because it's "an inconvenient truth," and the telling of it would make explicit what has always been the real equation of the global warming scare. Which is, that if people believe the planet is on the path to apocalyptic ruin because of the world's dependence on petroleum - and that, without exaggeration, is the message of the global warming advocates - then the world's economies must radically shrink. We must do and have less of everything. We must make less, travel less, buy less - and endure the deeper hardship of more people out of work.

That is the inescapable message of a serious belief in global warming. No amount of chatter about a "green economy" or Twittering about all the "green jobs" about to materialize as soon as we "wean ourselves from our carbon dependency" - all rhetorical sugar-coating - will change it.

If Prince Charles, another Horseperson of the eco-Apocalypse, really believes that "the threat of catastrophic climate change calls into question humanity's continued existence on the planet," then, in some secret chamber of his royal heart, he must be cheering the great blizzard roiling the world's economies. For it is surely, as night follows day, reducing the call on the world's energy and "downsizing" the dreaded "carbon footprints" of whole nations. But we do not hear his cheering or the cheering of the Sierra Clubs or the Earth Hour glee clubs because that would be acknowledging the truth of what their prescriptions for a new economy — the "green economy" — really mean.

Do you really wish to know what this "green economy" will look like? Look out the recession's window. We're in it.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is like moving to another planet to read the comments at the Mop n' Pail. I was not aware of how much kool-aid is consumed in the world.

12:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If the goal of the eco-alarmists was truly to reduce the world's carbon footprint they probably would be cheering the global recession. However, since the 'global warming' hysteria has always been about social leveling, the economic slowdown brings them no joy. Cap and trade, which was only a ploy to transfer wealth from the successful and productive western democracies to the failed theocratic and dictatorial nations of the world, is fast losing its allure. People no longer have the luxury of pouring their hard-earned money into failed-state ratholes just to salve their consciences. The world wide recession has taken the steam out this social engineering scam and shattered the dream of the eco-nuts.

12:58 PM  

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