Age émigré Jonathan Green is the bald head of Nameless. His by-line doesn't appear much but his politics infuses every word. He is Green by name and Greens by nature.
Some of what he is held responsible for is the introductory blurb, sometimes the only thing worth reading in the bankrupt email newsletter. Much like Guy "Gee" Rundle, what he writes is obscene but tolerably witty when he doesn't try too hard or showing off by quoting from the latest lesbian amputee poet or Althusserian philosopher. (Althusser was a French Marxist, popular in some latte left circles who strangled his wife to death, claiming that he was merely massaging his wife's neck and then had no memory of what happened next.)
THE SKY IS FALLING
Yesterday they gave a revealing insight into their politics, increasingly stridently left-wing and odd:
Will we look back at 2008 and wonder whether this was the moment in time that people and politics woke up to the possibility that something had to change? That the assumptions of growth and consumption that have been taken for granted since the enclosure of the fields could no longer be sustained?
Doomsday lefty politics. We ought not be surprised. Perhaps the Nameless publisher/owner Eric Beecher ought give his tens of millions of dollars to Gaia.
Doomsday politics which ignores the exponential growth possibilities made real everyday by technological change is the new future for the Left in a world where state socialism/ownership is such a proven failure.
"We're running out of everything", they say. We must retreat to an non-air-conditioned, organic, rural, non-genetically modified world where everyone drives a Prius.
TOMORROW WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER THAN TODAY DESPITE LEFTY PREACHING
Nonsense of course. Technology and the human ingenuity that underpins it will continue to drive living standards up and enable us to scale new heights of human achievement. We've been here before. Oil prices have been high before. And they will retreat once again.
But the temporary high prices do make people worry. As has climate change worried many people who just assume what they're told by lefty scientists is true.
And these fears, some of them legitimate are what the Left are now seizing on to drive their latest attack on our way of life. The Greens party is little more than a fear and ignorance exploitation party.
So it's useful I think to shine the bright light of patriotic truth on some of their assumptions, spin and lies and see where it takes us.
Climate change pre-occupied folk at Wired have patriotically listed some inconvenient truths which challenge many Greeny urban myths:
FACT ONE: Living in the City is much better for the environment than living anywhere else. In the US for example, folks who live in Manhattan have the lowest carbon footprint in the nation.
FACT TWO: Air conditioning uses a lot less energy than heating.
FACT THREE: Conventional farming puts less strain on the environment than organic farming.
FACT FOUR: An important strategy for addressing climate change involves chopping down trees and planting new ones.
FACT FIVE: China - horrible in many other ways with its gangsta politics - is slotted for environmental vandalism. But they're actually now the world's number producer of solar panels and pushed by sky-rocketing energy prices are ensuring they have alternatives to over-priced Saudi oil.
FACT SIX: Genetic engineering is already reducing the need for energy intensive fertilisers and herbicide.
FACT SEVEN: Carbon trading schemes are a gimmick that will make no difference.
FACT EIGHT: Nuclear power is a very low carbon per kilowatt hour source of energy.
FACT NINE: Prius cars are cool but their battery has thirty pounds of nickel make their carbon footprint bigger than a Hummer. Buying a used car might be better for the environment.
Game on.
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