Friday, January 09, 2009

Green Options Environmental Discussion Forum • View topic - Hair-brained Mitigation proposals???
Recent comment in another blog.
"Why would you try to sequester plant food, when facing a possible famine?"
Come to that, why would anyone sane even suggest, let alone actually do it, using food to make fuel?
What really worries me is that some well-meaning idiot will come up with a scheme that really does remove CO2 from the atmosphere. At 385 ppm we are only just over twice the level (180 ppm) at which plants start to die! Without plants, the anthropogenic problem is totally solved and the mass extinctions guaranteed.
The Pastiche Politics of the Runway Rush — Climate Resistance: Challenging Climate Orthodoxy
This game of dressing-up and let’s-pretend is pastiche politics. It creates retrogressive manifestos by decoupage, not political ideas: historical images are stripped of their context to give meaning to the lives of a small number of morally-disoriented moralising whingebags. This breeds grotesque chimeras: the privileged offspring of the establishment, convinced simultaneously of their own importance and the belief that they are the downtrodden victims of industrial society. They march into the lives of ordinary people, going about their ordinary business and demand it all stops, to be reorganised around their insecurities and sense of alienation. Such incomprehensible naffness would be funny, if these infantile clowns didn’t already have what they were demanding.

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