Long before we are extinguished by global food shortages or raised sea levels, I predict, we are fated to die of boredom, struck down in our prime by the devastating virus 0157eco-smugness. Doctors will be powerless to stop as the bug invades our minds, causing nervous paralysis leading to eventual seizure. We are doomed, for sure, to terminal ennui brought on by environmental righteousness.
This is the terrible paradox of the environmental movement. The paradox that, if society proceeds down the true path of eco-purity, we may well save the planet; but will simultaneously discover that life is too dull to be worth living on it any more. Women in particular, I fear, will find themselves returned to the Dark Ages.
How can it be otherwise? No skiing, no cars, no travel, no exotic foods, no extravagance, no Hollywood, no wasteful labour-saving devices, no clothes made of anything but recycled plastics and hemp. No more Luxx magazine filled with beautifully engineered, sleek, accessory porn. In their place we will chant a litany of carbon offset, recycling and composting, the buttresses of a new religion that makes radical Islam resemble Methodism.
Continue reading Melanie Reid's Times article: A world of hemp lingerie? No thanks
Women will be returned to the Dark Ages if the eco-fundamentalists end up having their way
That is what really worries us, Steve. Your "Contemporary environmental thinking" and its "big, super commercial business" is being run by the kind of turkeys that can turn a big business into a small one in very short order.
In fact, most of them have never added much of value to anything they have been associated with. They are nothing but 'rent seekers' and spivs on the make.
Usually it is the denialists accusing the AGW believers of Henny Penny cries...
"Contemporary environmental thinking is big, super commercial business*, its not simply about frugality. ITs about doing MORE with less, not just about doing less." - Steve
Yes Steve, but some here are comfortable fat cats with no imagination. There is no middle ground - to these people their very livelihoods and plasma screens are threatened.
So I was right Ian 🙂
Mark, that was great. If you liked the movie "Grease," then you'll like Al Gore's version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNrGhekg8GI&feature=related
Bruce,
I loved your gig on Letterman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2GM2Wwc0I4&feature=related