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It ain't easy bein' green
Contributed by: Sean Rima   on 7/3/2008

I will not be Green.

I'm just letting you know, for the record.

I will not be enticed, hypnotized, badgered, insulted, or legislated into a needlessly expensive, pre-industrial lifestyle that will ultimately damage my ability to pay my bills and put food on the table for my kid. No way, ain't gonna happen.

I will not be Green because the movement itself hasn't convinced me of anything. The only argument presented to me--and millions of other Americans--is this: "Accept, without question, everything we claim about Climate Change, or you are no better than a terrorist or a pedophile."

Talk about fear tactics! This is the grim rhetoric we most often hear from the Nazi-like Cult of Al Gore, the Divine Savior of Momma Earth, whose personal residence, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, devoured enough energy last year to run 232 American households for a month, whose net worth has grown from $1 million to $100 million since "An Inconvenient Truth" was released, and whose international rock concert to raise awareness about the evils of garbage produced an estimated 1,000 tons of it.

I wonder how many centuries it would've taken Wall-E to clean up after Live Earth?

I will not be Green because a three-minute Google search of hundreds of geological websites tells me that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas, but a trace element of life itself, and represents only 0.037% of the total atmosphere. Of that wee bit, a significant amount is attributed to human and animal flatulence.

What, do you suppose, would be Al Gore's carbon footprint after a meatball sub with curly fries?

What truly disturbs me about the Green Cult is the decidedly anti-human tone of it. The storm troopers of this movement, who blissfully pledge themselves to the God of Crap Science, consider the human race itself a form of pollution.

Last year, a group of seriously uppity chicks from the UK had their reproductive organs surgically removed because they did not want to further pollute the earth with human babies. If you don't think this idea is crazy, then you, reading this blog, are probably crazy, too, and simply don't realize it.

And that's the most dangerous form of crazy there is.

Human beings are not an alien affliction sent down from the cosmos to destroy the earth. We are a Natural Occurrence of the earth, no more or less than a blade of grass or a rhinoceros or a mountain stream.

The only difference is that we have these Big Fat Wrinkly Brains that can imagine some pretty cool stuff, such as finding a way to drill in Alaska without ticking off the caribou, or extracting shale from the Rocky Mountains without unduly poisoning our home ecosystems of Colorado.

For my dollar, the true heroes of the human race are the unsung geniuses of Lockheed-Martin, NASA, and the University of Arizona, who just dropped a human-conceived, soil-testing robot on Mars. Now, they don't get as much press as when the 'heroic' Leonardo DiCaprio commits to driving a Prius, but they damn well should.

Physicist Stephen Hawking estimates that we have about fifty years to transform ourselves into a spacefaring race of beings, or we will have surpassed the earth's ability to support our naturally increasing population, no matter how many carbon offsets I buy from that fat muffin Al Gore. What's the implication of Hawking's tipping point, as opposed to the self-serving one presented by the Greenies?

Ultimately, that Trekkies with computers will more than likely save the human race, long before Al Gore and a bunch of naked hippies on ten-speeds will.

And that's all I have to say about that.


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Submitted By: Rand Clark
posted on 7/6/2008 @ 7:32:53 AM
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Oh Sean... just having some fun. I don't consider myself and environmentalist. I'm a Creationist. I base my actions not off what science thinks (at that particular moment... since it always seems to be changing) but rather on the moral and Biblical mandate to care for what God created. (Stewardship for those religious folks who like that term better). This is a much longer discussion than is possible here. Let's just say I do the best I can to live responsibly. Oh... and the carbon credit thing... it's no different... just a way for Al to make a living since there isn't much else out there for him. And... I typically don't rate article... but just for you... ****** (6 stars since they only let me put in 5)
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Submitted By: Rand Clark
posted on 7/5/2008 @ 9:37:35 AM
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At least you posted this on the internet. Let's hope it gets printed now so you can waste a bunch of paper!!!!! Good stuff.
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Submitted By: Michael Rule
posted on 7/4/2008 @ 7:54:23 AM
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I'll spare you a rating on this one. Here's what I've noticed, though. Both sides of the "Green" issue are full of venom and BS about the other side, including this blog. And that's all I have to say about that.
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