A Comment About

Rumors of the Death of Arctic Sea Ice Greatly Exaggerated

December 20, 2008 - 12:00 am - by Timothy Birdnow
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2008-12-20 19:13:54

What becomes clear upon reading the comment thread is the inability of the “believers” to refrain from rhetorical constructions (a la Lazar’s “Please shape-up” (although I have to admit I never knew “shape-up” had a hyphen, since I always thought it was “shape up”. As Lazar’s phrasing stands, I think he’s made a noun out of a verb phrase. Maybe it’s the vocative and he’s addressing the great shape-up in the sky.)), which are hardly befitting the weight of the issue at hand, which is nothing less than the future of our modern way of life.

You simply can’t have modern social life as we know it in an “environmentally correct” society. Most of the parasitic losers that make up the environmentalist movement would never survive under such a “might makes right” context (which is essentially what all social contexts were until very, very recently in history, and I would argue that at least part of the reason was because there was never a cheap source of energy like fossil fuels, so human energy, in the form of slavery, was the next best thing. It’s probably not a coincidence that the end of human slavery and the beginning of the fossil fuel era are nearly contemporaneous). So, in essence, environmentalists are asking the human race to regress, but that very regression will mean their extinction or enslavement at the hands of less “sensitive” souls. Just look at the social mores that prevail in pre-modern parts of the world today.