Young, Dumb, and Scared: Big Green and the Existential Protection Racket
Charlie
I’m unsure what’s being driven at here. Are there excesses? Of course; this is always a part of the human condition. However, all that this series is doing is demonising green tech completely, which frankly is rather stupid. All it does is whip up the partisan rabble and further obfuscate.
For example, there are good reasons why green-think isn’t bad. This describes one such —
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/09/the-us-militarys-two-pronged-renewable-energy-initiative
What the GOP needs to do is advocate green itself, but doing so in a way that is a counter to the left’s idiotic persistence on government subsidised windmills and other nonsense that doesn’t work. Examples: advocating the building of say 200 to 500 nuclear facilities; advocating the research and funding of the Bussard/EmC2 polywell fusion system; funding small-scale reactors; pushing NASA and the DOE to seriously plan/build solar power satellites (which we can do.) All of these are green. Will there be excesses? Sadly, yes. Deal.
Instead, the right craps on green in the partisan haste to find any reason at all to crap on the left. “Left = Green, after all, so let’s take a dump on the left’s favourite science advocacy. While we’re at it, let’s surrender any usable and clever high ground. We *could* advocate smart green and indicate to the average voter that yes, the GOP is paying attention and not merely reactionary. But we’re not going to do that.” Dumb dumb dumb. But hey, don’t let me interject any common sense here, just continue to whip PJM’s thumpers and other technology-challenged partisan hacks into a frenzy. Never let an excess of one’s political adversary go to waste…
