Re: Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less!On May 21, 10:35 am, Lord Valve <detri...@ix,net com,com > wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> > > Watch the vid - sign the petition. *Fuck* Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Saud, etc.
> > > And fuck all the Green Weenies who say NO to *everything* - they're not
> > > into conservation or cleaning the environment, they're into *control*.
>
> > And there you have it: the real issue you have with environmentalists is
> > your adolescent "you can't tell me what to do attitude". Grow up. This is
> > no doubt a cover for opening up ANWAR for drilling, which the gov't's own
> > study has determined won't mean jack in terms of meeting our oil needs, or
> > lowering prices. Wise up.
>
> Fuck the caribou, too. I say eat 'em.
>
> YOU wise up, son. The Green Weenies already have a hand in your
> pocket. Not that far from your balls, and that's where the hand is
> ultimately headed.
>
> Damn *right* we should drill in ANWAR, and every other fucking
> place where there's oil. Watch the video, asshole. Newt's right.
>
> Lord Valve
> American
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The poor have always voted Democrat
That's why they are "STILL" poor!
Environmental hysterics
By David Deming
April 6, 2008
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley recently warned that failure to take
action on global warming could mean the extinction of the human race.
Over the last few years, we've been repeatedly warned we are in the
midst of a climate crisis that threatens our survival. Al Gore calls
it a "planetary emergency."
We might take this concern more seriously if the doom-mongering wing
of the environmental movement weren't burdened by a long history of
false prophecies.
In the mid- to late-1960s, the leading environmental concern was
overpopulation. The 1967 book "Famine 1975!" warned "by 1975 a
disaster of unprecedented magnitude will face the world ... famines
will ravage the undeveloped nations ... this is the greatest problem
facing mankind." A sober review of the book in the scholarly journal
Science characterized the prediction of mass starvation as "self-
evident," argued that technological solutions were "unrealistic," and
concluded that catastrophe was unavoidable. The reviewer concluded
"all responsible investigators agree that the tragedy will occur."
More widely read was Paul Ehrlich's shrill screed, "The Population
Bomb" (1968). Mr. Ehrlich began with the infamous words "the battle to
feed all of humanity is over," and claimed that "in the 1970s ...
hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." "We must
have population control," Mr. Ehrlich argued, because it is the "only
answer."
Mr. Ehrlich followed "The Population Bomb" in 1969 with publication of
the essay, "Eco-Catastrophe," in which he predicted the Green
Revolution would fail and that the "ignorance" of the Cornucopian
economists would be exposed. By 1980, environmental degradation would
wipe out all "important animal life" in the world's oceans, people
would choke to death from air pollution by the hundreds of thousands,
and life expectancy in the United States would fall to 42 years.
"Western society," Mr. Ehrlich proclaimed, "is in the process of
completing the rape and murder of the planet for economic gain."
In 1975, the news media informed us that a new Ice Age was imminent.
An article in the Chicago Tribune titled "B-r-r-r-r: New Ice Age on
way soon?" noted "It's getting colder." The Tribune interpreted a
number of ordinary weather events "as evidence that a significant
shift in climate is taking place — a shift that could be the
forerunner of an Ice Age." The New York Times chimed in, warning their
readers that "a major cooling may be ahead." Famed science reporter
Walter Sullivan announced "the world's climate is changing ... a new
ice age is on the way."
Within 10 years, the imminent calamity of global cooling was replaced
by global warming. And the mass famines predicted by Paul Ehrlich and
others never happened.
From 1970 through 2000, the world's population grew from 3.7 billion
to 6.1 billion. But the food supply grew faster. Between 1970 and
2000, per capita food increased by 15 percent. The problem today is
not of famine but of too much food. Obesity is even becoming a problem
in the developing world.
Better science and more reasonable voices preceded Mr. Ehrlich, but
were ignored by a media fascinated with frenetic alarmism.
In 1960, ecologist Edward Deevey calmly predicted that the rapid
growth in world population would be temporary. He was right. The
growth rate of the world population peaked in the early 1960s and was
already in decline when Mr. Ehrlich published "The Population Bomb" in
1968. Europe and Japan now have negative population growth, and the
birthrate in developing countries is falling rapidly as these regions
undergo a demographic transition.
It is apparent that world population will stabilize at 9 billion to 10
billion around the middle of this century.
None of the environmental catastrophes Mr. Ehrlich predicted occurred.
Since 1970, the six principal air pollutants tracked by the
Environmental Protection Agency have fallen significantly, even while
U.S. population and energy use have grown. In 1990, Mr. Ehrlich's own
ignorance was exposed when he lost a wager over the price of
commodities to Cornucopian economist Julian Simon.
And the Green Revolution was a success. It has been estimated that the
father of the Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, singlehandedly saved
the lives of a billion people. Higher crop yields from improved grain
varieties also helped preserve the environment by limiting the need to
convert undeveloped areas to arable land.
History repeats itself. So, please excuse my skepticism when you claim
global warming means the end of the world is nigh. I have heard it all
before.
David Deming is a geologist, an adjunct scholar with the National
Center for Policy Analysis and associate professor of Arts and
Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
Wes Pace