It’s funny how Warmist solutions always seem to revolve around more and more Big Government controlling more and more of people’s lives, eh? Never things like “all Warmists should immediately give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral”. James Delingpole brings us
(Breitbart) Beneath the warm cuddly exterior of the bunny-hugging greenie beats the heart of a fascist. If you ever doubted it, check out this Vox interview with William T Vollmann.
Vollmann is an award-winning author and war correspondent once described as the most “ambitious, audacious writer working in America today†and tipped as a plausible Nobel Prize for Literature candidate. He claims once to have been a climate change ‘denier’ but not any more.
The climate change threat is so dire, he believes, that only the most drastic solutions will do:
It’s not just what some consumer does at home. It’s niggling little issues that add up. In Japan, roughly 50 percent or so of all the methane emissions — and that’s one of the three most dangerous greenhouse gases — are caused by rice growing. All this stuff that seems so innocuous. It seems to me that you have to drag people into some kind of regulatory hell, unfortunately. Maybe there’s a better way to do it, but I don’t see one.
I do. But, Warmists aren’t willing to give up their “comforts”, as Vollmann later goes on to discuss in the interview. They’re willing to attempt to restrict those same comforts from people in the “developing world”, especially in places where black people live.
I will disagree with Delingpole a bit
Still, it’s important to hear the thoughts of green thinkers and influencers like Vollmann now and again because that way we can be reminded of what it really is that motivates environmentalists. They dress their feelings up as love for the planet – but what it’s really about is hatred for technology, hatred of creature comforts, hatred of human achievement.
While Warmists and enviroweenies may dislike those, particularly the last two (and creature comforts for Other People), as I’ve noted time and time again this is about Progressive (nice Fascist) policies, always increasing the size and power of the government of citizens, private entities, and economies. And the little Progressive idiots have been brainwashed into forgetting that the bad parts of government controlling our lives won’t hit them in their own lives. They’ll be the first to complain when it does, acting all shocked. Remember this gem?
Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.
“I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today,†Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.
“I really don’t like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family’s pocket each year, that’s otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy.â€
“Of course, I want people to have health care,†Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.â€
Obamacare is much like the ‘climate change’ push: increased costs, increased control of your life, and, guess what, Warmists? You’ll see the bad parts, too!
They vote independent …
HAHAH. Typical Democrats. They like to virtue signal even in how they vote. Tell their friends that they are “independent”, but always vote Democrat.
Cute, isn’t it.
Mr Vollman said:
So, the good author believes that the Japanese people should starve to death instead?
My mother used to tell me the story of their housekeeper in Tokyo, the “mama-san,” who said, “日本ã®çŒ«ã¯ç±³ã‚’食ã¹ã‚‹,” Japanese neko must eat rice. The mama-san insisted that Frisco, my mother’s cat would have to eat rice, and once hit a piece of octopus under a bed of rice for her. Frisco simply pushed the rice out of the way to get to the good stuff.
Rice is more than just the Japanese staple food; it is a tradition. My father (he was Portuguese, but grew up in Maui) apparently insisted on rice for at least every other meal. So, it seems that the esteemed Mr Vollman not only wants the Japanese to go hungry, but to destroy one of their cultural traditions as well.
One might not have to starve the Japanese or revoke their cultural heritage after all. And Mr. Vollman did not suggest that anyway…
Since climate change Deniers (aka fossilweenies) don’t think atmospheric methane and CO2 cause warming, then of course they don’t see any point in slowing the increase in the atmosphere.
Jeff,
So your method of slowing trace gas in The atmosphere is to tax everyone and destroy the economy. Does not make sense to me. But maybe the global government that goes with your religion would do the job.
Yep, as the nignorant angry little black fella and that Vollman fella points out rice produces methane.
What they fail to point out is that rice is a wetland plant. ALL wetlands produce methane. Methane is part of the
… process of decay in wetlands.
Would the little nignorants have us reduce the wetlands and the ecological process that produces methane?
Yep, you really are a bunch of little dumbfvcks.
We understand that you don’t understand. What’s new…
Yep, that means a lot coming from a nignorant angry little black fella.
So, you’ve given up all usage of fossil fossil fuels in your own life, Jeff?
Didn’t realize he was going to have to be the one to pay for it personally: As if, of course not, the left thinks they’re above having to live like the peasants. Democrats aren’t elitists, they’re just assholes.