Posted by
arandomguy on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:54:58 PM
The annoying environmentalists are at it again, ladies and gentlemen. A couple weeks ago, they suggested having only 2 kids could help save the planet. Then the head of Greenpeace suggests that 5 billion people need to kill themselves to save the planet (because breathing has oh-so-nasty an affect on the ozone layer).
According to a new report, issued by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the people of Earth have just 5 years to save the planet, lest all hell break loose upon us. Says a spokesperson for the organization "We have a small window of time in which we can plant the seeds of change, and that is the next five years."
This comes synonymously of course, with news that April temperatures were lower than expected, and lower than average - despite the clearly dangerous and present bout of global warming that everybody is worrying about. This also comes as more and more scientists are beginning to jump off the "We're all going to die" bandwagon, and actually have reasoned, intellectual discourse about Global Warming.
This also comes as Greenpeace builds a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, as an act of environmental "activism" (I'd call it annoyance). Says a spokesperson for Greenpeace "Those leaders have a mandate from the people ... to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions and to do it now."
What leaders? And furthermore, what people? The wacko-crazy-fringe environmentalists, who show up every nice day and tick people off and make them feel guilty? That's like saying the government has a mandate from the people to follow the advice of the KKK, because a few knuckleheads with insane ideas get together and claim they have ultimate power. The fact is, they don't. As long as there is still serious scientific and intellectual debate (and so long as the absence of it isn't the result of pro-global-warmers silencing all opposition), steps the government takes should be limited, and should not place an undue burden on the people, or on the taxpayer, and it should not create an oppressive and monstrous bureaucracy to solve the problem (which NEVER works).
Enjoy the weather!