Sunday, April 24, 2016

The Stuff Greens Keep Getting Wrong

The Stuff Greens Keep Getting Wrong | The Arts Mechanical:
"9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
...The problem is that the Greens want to worship the planet rather than live on it.
They want to fix everything in that mythical set point of theirs and they’ve demonstrated that they are perfectly willing to sacrifice humanity to achieve that.
What they don’t understand is that would be the worst thing that could happen.
A fixed system can’t respond to changes and the biosphere is, by it’s very nature changing all the time. 
All the Greens will achieve is a disaster that will hurt or kill billions of people if they get what they want and change nothing.
It’s time we celebrated the great civilization that so many worked so hard to create for us. 
Especially those who toiled to create new enterprises that have done so much to improve our lives..."

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