The Nature of Green Insanity
One of the reasons I rail against green hysteria is that it seems to instill a deep kind of self hating psychosis in people. And that can lead to mental illness.
These two stories are a perfect example. In one, a woman has herself sterilized to “lower her carbon footprint”. She had aborted a fetus for the same reason, previously. Sure, one can joke that she’s doing the gene pool a favor. But I feeel sorry for her. There will come a time when she’s older when she may regret her decision and there’s nothing she can do about it.
In the other story, two scientists claim we’re shortening the life of the universe.
New Scientist reports a worrying new variant as the cosmologists claim that astronomers may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its death by observing dark energy, a mysterious anti gravity force which is thought to be speeding up the expansion of the cosmos.
The damaging allegations are made by Profs Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and James Dent of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, who suggest that by making this observation in 1998 we may have caused the cosmos to revert to an earlier state when it was more likely to end. “Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may have reduced the life-expectancy of the universe,” Prof Krauss tells New Scientist.
The team came to this depressing conclusion by calculating how the energy state of our universe - a kind of summation of all its particles and all their energies - has evolved since the big bang of creation 13.7 billion years ago.
The ego that’s involved in both stories: the delusion of power that they attribute to humanity, and thus, to themselves, is so out of bounds it really should be considered a pathology. Humans are prone to delusion because it’s a survival instinct we have. It helps us to put up with harsh environments. Thus, people are found at all corners of the globe. They can psychologically adapt to just about any kind of place. What we do is create a simplified reality for ourselves. We define the rules of this reality, no matter how unrealistic these rules may be. Thus we get magical thinking. Thus we get bizarre religious cults. Thus we get the green hysterias that man has some kind of godlike impact on the planet.
It’s one thing to work to have a cleaner world, and cut pollution and needless development. It’s another to castrate yourself because some politician like Al Gore convinced you that you were a bad person for even existing. The hysterics are leading gullible people down a self destructive path. And they are forcing the rest of us to put up with laws and taxes and (almost worse) self righteous lectures that aren’t even necessary.
They keep amping up the hysteria to ridiculous degrees. I’d love to see how they top the theory that we’re killing the universe by observing it.
Just watch. Someone will. The absurdity of their self righteousness is lost in their hubris.
As long as they only castrate and spey themselves and each other, I will stand at the sidelines and cheer them on. I wish I could sell tickets.
Posted by on 11/23 at 02:02 PMThis note by Instapundit should be all the proof necessary as to the BS behind the warming scam.
U.N. GREENHOUSE CONFERENCE WILL overload Bali’s airport with private jets:
Tempo Interaktif reports that Angkasa Pura - the management of Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport are concerned that the large number of additional private charter flights expected in Bali during the UN Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) December 3-15, 2007, will exceed the carrying capacity of apron areas. To meet the added demand for aircraft storage officials are allocating “parking space” at other airports in Indonesia.
I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis. That clearly hasn’t happened yet.
posted at 02:23 PM by Glenn Reynolds PermalinkPosted by on 11/23 at 06:16 PMKrauss is nuts. J.S. Bell shot down that interpretation of quantum theory decades ago.
Posted by on 11/23 at 06:35 PMGreen zombies are the worst.
When asked why we have forest fires in California they reply; “global warming” or “too many people”.Instead of looking at their Sierra Club’s short sighted forestry agenda; they just BLAME OTHER SINISTER ENTITIES!
And they have noooo shame when their “green” plan is proven not to work.
THEY JUST DEMAND MORE FAILED FEEL-GOOD POLICY AND BIG GUV’MENT MONEYS!
All it takes is an Al Gore type voodoo priest to get the “green” zombies walking around blindly...with dead eyes, following orders...with no will of their own...not knowing what they do...not caring for humanity.
Socialism is a cult hiding behind environmentalism these days.
Warmest Regards,
jnPosted by on 11/24 at 08:16 PMWhen you’ve got a life expectency of trillions of years a few million less doesn’t mean a damn thing.
Posted by mythusmage on 11/25 at 03:33 PM
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