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Post by hairball on May 12, 2010 10:25:11 GMT
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Post by kiwistonewall on May 12, 2010 11:41:24 GMT
And they have a virtually carbon-free economy now - No heating, no lighting, not much at all really  Such is the future some want for us all. |
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Post by throttleup on May 12, 2010 14:19:11 GMT
If only we were all as advanced as North Korea! The world would be a much safer and better place! /sarc
(Try the tree bark, it's delicious!)
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Post by stranger on May 13, 2010 1:43:51 GMT
That is in fact the future many "progressives" envision as a paradise for all. All being the 250 million or so survivors who can live off the land as semi-nomads. I have lived under circumstances similar to those of contemporary North Koreans. It was, in a word, miserable.
Regressing to what amounts to the 11th century with television is not a good way to live. If they were actually progressives, they would try for a standard of living much like the late 19th Century United States.
Stranger
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Post by Maui on May 14, 2010 2:36:44 GMT
I need to go cut firewood.
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Post by poitsplace on May 14, 2010 4:50:06 GMT
Yeah, some of the more radical greens see everything as the evil, greedy humans destroying other species and think we should revert to our more primitive ways in order to save the world...
...instead of viewing it as a species of primate with an incredible adaptive advantage and displacing other species.
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Post by nautonnier on May 14, 2010 13:02:00 GMT
Yeah, some of the more radical greens see everything as the evil, greedy humans destroying other species and think we should revert to our more primitive ways in order to save the world... ...instead of viewing it as a species of primate with an incredible adaptive advantage and displacing other species. Funny - it appears on the surface that to be a truly radical 'green' one has to have an exceedingly healthy bank balance and with a significant sum of money invested in one or more 'carbon exchange scheme(s)'. |
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Post by sigurdur on May 14, 2010 14:18:36 GMT
Quit amazing isn't it nautonnier.
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Post by sentient on May 16, 2010 13:28:11 GMT
Ten years ago I was setting up a GPS base for sub-meter mapping accuracy for a forest management plan approved by the regional water board in NorCal as part of the Clinton Headwaters land swap for one of the last remaining virgin redwood stands. At the many public meetings held at Humboldt I was always amazed at all the protester's vehicles jamming the parking lot. I have some great shots of row after row of Suburbans, Excursions, Yukons and Expeditions. Greenies do have a way with words, you should have heard them. And after these public meetings, I would always slide out to the lot to watch the army of gas guzzlers loaded with lots of kids amble off to their homes in these forests.
Having more than two kids, driving such tanks and spewing forth almost frantic rhetoric about saving the planet did not strike me at all ironic. I actually felt kind of good about it all, since my primary work is cleaning up all the filth such excess engenders. Eventually, they all end up being my clients in one way or another. Shares of stock purchased directly or by retirement plans in companies that produce something, anything, even solar panels, always seems to yield an environmental nightmare somewhere. That is the nature of the human being.
And then they call Toxbusters. I just sit by the phone.......
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Post by scpg02 on May 16, 2010 15:41:56 GMT
Ten years ago I was setting up a GPS base for sub-meter mapping accuracy for a forest management plan approved by the regional water board in NorCal as part of the Clinton Headwaters land swap for one of the last remaining virgin redwood stands. At the many public meetings held at Humboldt I was always amazed at all the protester's vehicles jamming the parking lot. I have some great shots of row after row of Suburbans, Excursions, Yukons and Expeditions. Greenies do have a way with words, you should have heard them. And after these public meetings, I would always slide out to the lot to watch the army of gas guzzlers loaded with lots of kids amble off to their homes in these forests. Having more than two kids, driving such tanks and spewing forth almost frantic rhetoric about saving the planet did not strike me at all ironic. I actually felt kind of good about it all, since my primary work is cleaning up all the filth such excess engenders. Eventually, they all end up being my clients in one way or another. Shares of stock purchased directly or by retirement plans in companies that produce something, anything, even solar panels, always seems to yield an environmental nightmare somewhere. That is the nature of the human being. And then they call Toxbusters. I just sit by the phone....... Limousine liberals. Nothing like throwing a "save the redwoods" party on your redwood deck! |
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