GameTheory
07-14-2010, 12:45 PM
No, not the science, but the movement.
Keep in mind Walter Russell Mead is a Democrat, and voted for Obama (although certainly no political hack). He also had no quibbles with climate science itself.
At best, the green movement might be compared to an alarm clock: jangling shrilly to wake up the world. That is fair enough; they have turned our attention to a problem that needs to be carefully examined and dealt with. But the first thing you do when you wake up is to turn the alarm clock off; otherwise that shrill beeping noise will distract you from the problems of the day.
The alarm clock will never understand this; making shrill and irrational noise is what alarm clocks do and is all they understand. But sensible and thoughtful people who want humanity to live fuller, richer lives in a cleaner and more sustainable world need to get past the naive and crude policy ideas that currently dominate green thinking and start giving these questions the serious attention and careful thought they deserve.
Whole article:
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/07/12/the-big-green-lie-exposed/
Keep in mind Walter Russell Mead is a Democrat, and voted for Obama (although certainly no political hack). He also had no quibbles with climate science itself.
At best, the green movement might be compared to an alarm clock: jangling shrilly to wake up the world. That is fair enough; they have turned our attention to a problem that needs to be carefully examined and dealt with. But the first thing you do when you wake up is to turn the alarm clock off; otherwise that shrill beeping noise will distract you from the problems of the day.
The alarm clock will never understand this; making shrill and irrational noise is what alarm clocks do and is all they understand. But sensible and thoughtful people who want humanity to live fuller, richer lives in a cleaner and more sustainable world need to get past the naive and crude policy ideas that currently dominate green thinking and start giving these questions the serious attention and careful thought they deserve.
Whole article:
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/07/12/the-big-green-lie-exposed/