Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Environmental News Examiner: Air-pollution watchdog pans EPA idea to fight global warming volcano-style
"I think if we’re so hard up for solutions to global warming that EPA thinkers are talking about triggering volcanoes, that we ought to be making a much bigger push to limit black carbon from existing diesel engines," O'Donnell said.
Green ideologists taking potshots from their armchairs | The Australian
Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal:

THE most popular and widest-ranging ideology in the West today is environmentalism, replacing not only Marxism but all the nationalist and xenophobic ideologies. It isn't difficult to spot in environmentalists' work something more than mere concern with a practical problem. Their writings often show themselves akin to the calls to repentance of 17th-century divines in the face of plague epidemics, but with the patina of rationality that every ideology needs to disguise its true source in existential angst.

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