Orson Scott Card on "America Unplugged".
Card says:
"Cap and trade" plans have already been tried, and they don't work -- they cost too much, and people find ways to get around them. But Obama promises us that he'll take that failed idea and be "as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's" plan.
In other words, if it doesn't work, let's do more of it!
This is Obama the New Puritan. We've found his real religion: Political and Environmental Correctness.
It's more important to him to eliminate coal than to find practical solutions. Why? Because coal is "bad." Our groupthinking "intellectual" elite thinks they are post-religious -- but they believe in sin and hate the sinners.
OSC bitch-slaps the global warming fruitcakes:
Unfortunately, human-caused global warming exists only in the way Zeus exists -- in the imagination of believers who ignore obvious natural explanations.
After kicking Obama's ass and doing a take-down worthy of Hulk Hogan in his prime, Card grinds the One's face into the dirt:
Obama and his elitist friends think they're smart, but they don't live on planet Earth, they live in a playhouse where they can make huge messes with their stupid policies, and then pretend that the mess is someone else's fault while they hope for some invisible mommy to come and clean it up.
The invisible mommy so far has been the American people and the resilient economy that we create (along with the few remaining moral standards that have not yet been crushed).
But we can't clean up after Obama's plan if we're too broke to turn on the lights.
Read the whole thing. Send it to your friends.
4 comments:
While many of Obama's plans do have holes, Card doesn't really admit or address the reality. Human actions DO impact the atmosphere and climate, We DO need to reduce emissions, and reducing carbon use DOES make a difference.
Did you visit LA in the 80's when it was the smog capital of the world? vs. now when it's at least breathable air? Have you followed the saga of the Aral Sea- a lake formerly bigger than some of the Great Lakes, now a mere salt puddle because of human overuse of water? Ozone layer-- hole closing up because we stopped using CFC's?
Global warming has many non-human factors causing it, but we are NOT helping, we are making it worse. The least we can do is get a grip on what we're polluting.
BTW thanks for getting a working link to my blog up, it won't wrap when i try. what's the trick?
You're more than welcome.
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Reverse the > to < in front of the 'a' and the '/a'. I had to turn them backwards to get it to show in the window. One thing I've noticed is that trying to copy and paste the interior quotes from notepad or Word will mess me up. I usually insert in the quotes in the comment window.
I visited LA in the late '70's, I lived in Dallas in the '80's and early '90's. I used to see the brown haze over downtown Dallas from our office. The problem with LA was not just the number of cars but the location which naturally lends itself to fog formation in thermal inversions. The exhaust fumes were trapped with the fog.
Yes, I agree there is proof that mankind can impact limited areas of the planet dramatically. We do need to gear up for alternatives to oil. But what do you do in the mean time?
Card's a Democrat and much more of an environmentalist than I am. His point is that the current "sustainable" technologies will not produce sufficient energy to maintain our economy. Clean coal technology is available and relatively inexpensive. We have lots and lots of coal. Coal plants to power hybrids and plug-ins can be built quickly. More nuclear plants can be built while we improve newer approaches such as fuel cells, wind and solar. I live on twenty-plus acres out in the country and I would love to be off the grid, but it is just not worth the investment at this point.
Coal is the path of energy independence for America. To dismiss it because it produces C02 -- which green plants use to grow -- really is economically dangerous for us in the long run.
Matthew, I like the way you think. I'm adding you to my blog list in the side panel.
Don't expect to be overwhelmed by incoming as a result. ;)
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