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Kotkin on the greens
http://www.thedailybeast.com/why-the-gre...-trump-won
...Not long ago, many greens still embraced pragmatic solutions—for example substituting abundant natural gas for coal—that have generated large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Rather than celebrate those demonstrable successes, many environmentalists began pushing for a total ban on the development of fossil fuels, including natural gas, irrespective of the costs or the impact on ordinary people.
James Lovelock, who coined the term “Gaia,” notes that the green movement has morphed into “a religion” sometimes marginally tethered to reality. Rather than engage in vigorous debate, they insist that the “science is settled” meaning not only what the challenges are but also the only acceptable solutions to them. There’s about as much openness about goals and methods within the green lobby today as there was questioning the existence of God in Medieval Europe. With the Judeo-Christian and Asian belief systems in decline, particularly among the young, environmentalism offers “science” as the basis of a new theology.
The believers at times seem more concerned in demonstrating their faith than in passing laws, winning elections or demonstrating results. So with Republicans controlling the federal government, greens are cheering Democratic state attorney generals’ long-shot legal cases against oil companies. The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman has talked about dismissing the disorder of democracy as not suited to meeting the environmental challenges we face, and replacing it with rulers like the “reasonably enlightened group of people” who run the Chinese dictatorship.
After Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, China was praised, bizarrely, as the great green hope. The Middle Kingdom, though, is the world’s biggest and fastest grower emitter, generating coal energy at record levels. It won’t, under Paris, need to cut its emissions till 2030. Largely ignored is the fact that America, due largely to natural gas replacing coal, has been leading the world in GHG reductions....
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UofMstateU
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RE: Kotkin on the greens
Im a conservationist. And as one, I can tell you that the last people I want anywhere near the specimens Im trying to conserve are green party members, libturds, or tree huggers.
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07-24-2017 10:40 AM |
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LeFlâneur
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RE: Kotkin on the greens
Label it post modernist environmentalism.
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07-24-2017 10:43 AM |
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Kaplony
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RE: Kotkin on the greens
(07-24-2017 10:40 AM)UofMstateU Wrote: Im a conservationist. And as one, I can tell you that the last people I want anywhere near the specimens Im trying to conserve are green party members, libturds, or tree huggers.
Yup
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