March 10, 2007
Guilt free global warming… Nice, huh?
Posted by icanplainlysee under climate change, culture war, democrats, environment, global warming, news, opinion, republicans, satire
Think about this for a minute.
Who would want any harm to come to cute, loveable, wild animals? Whose heart strings wouldn’t be touched by possible suffering of God’s creatures, who exist at the mercy of evil man and his destructive engines of industry and his polluting, consumerist lifestyle? How could any person turn a deaf ear to protecting defenseless creatures, especially when sinful human excesses are causing global trauma in the worlds animal communities? Be ashamed Human. Be very ashamed.
Oh, and here’s a way to purge your sinful transgressions, return to guilt free activity and maintaining life as you want it, assuming you can afford to. You, too, can continue to live exactly as you had before. All you have to do is send cash to the appropriate sin-elimination center of your choice, and they will plant trees or build a big windmill for you and your loved ones. Eco-sin problem removed, life goes on.
Well, not exactly. But then, religious charlatans go back eons. The difference now is, where guilt and shame are necessary human emotions to cause a search for relief and purpose in life, eco-guilt is a sham, set up to extort cash and power from other humans.
People are, after all, spiritual beings. Longing for a connection with something bigger and grander than everyday human life is universal. Filling this inner need, this unfilled void that plagues us all, is a vulnerability waiting to be exploited, sometimes by the most bizarre, and even destructive.
Enter the Church of Anthropogenic Climate Change and Guilt Relief Sales Center.
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“Moreover, there has been a conscious awareness that religious fervor would be needed to energize the environmental movement. As Joseph Brean points out in his recent National Post review of Dr. Orrell’s book:
“Forty years ago, shortly after Rachel Carson launched modern environmentalism… a Princeton history professor named Lynn White wrote a seminal essay called the Historical Roots of our Ecological Crises: ‘By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects. Since the roots of our trouble are so largely religious, the remedy must also be essentially religious, whether we call it that or not.’ It was a prescient claim. In a 2003 speech… Michael Crichton… closed the circle, calling modern environmentalism ‘the religion of choice for urban atheists… a perfect 21st century re-mapping of traditional JudeoChristian beliefs and myths.”
Now, there is nothing wrong, and a lot right, with the human instinct to try to understand man within a larger transcendental context. The arrogant and monstrously dilated individual human ego is the direct cause of much of mankind’s suffering throughout our benighted existence.
And while I have my own religious thoughts, I will not disdain any man’s search for the transcendent. But a religion should be understood by both its adherents and others for what it is — a religion. The trouble with global-warming believers is that probably most of them delude themselves into thinking they are practicing science — not religion.
And yet, the signs of religiousness are readily to be seen. Al Gore and his Hollywood coterie have almost comically manifested one aspect of their new religion in the last few weeks — the sense of sin and the search for remission of such sin.”
Please read complete article here.
Gore uses religion to attract global warming converts
Global warming: bogus religion of our age
Thanks Civisordinarius
March 10, 2007 at
Hi Hank,
I’m so glad you have finally “seen the light!” ;) However, you should note that, since poor people can’t afford the conscious saving carbon offsets, a tax on the rest of us will still be needed.
the Grit
March 10, 2007 at
Hi Grit,
In reading comments from deniers that carbon credits do anything other than transfer cash into shrewd business peoples pockets, it’s clear most find this scheme ridiculous and just short of a carnival sideshow.
In reading the defense of the scheme to force compliance of draconian law and taxation endlessly over multiple generations, not surprisingly the zealous, religious nature of true believers comes shining through.
Empty lives need filling.
Why not with life changing, cataclysmic events?
Hank
March 10, 2007 at
Great cartoon!
March 10, 2007 at
Very funny.
March 11, 2007 at
Welcome to Wednesday’s Heroes, Hank. Love your style of jazz, too!
*Hugs*
March 11, 2007 at
This reminds me a lot of Ann Coulter’s Godless. While I’m always a huge fan of Ann, her book almost goes on auto-rant and doesn’t delve enough into the issues of liberalism as a religion.
When I was in elementary school, they taught us about the landfills and acid rain and recycling. So I was brainwashed at a young age to really care about the environment. I still think that stuff is important, but I don’t see the need to implement it by government fiat.
I certainly don’t disagree with things like SBIRs and STTRs, where the government funds research for products to reduce gasoline consumption of military vehicles - that’s good economics and good for the environment. I love how Trader Joe’s will enter you into a raffle if you bring in your own grocery bag. Good economics for them, good for the environment - I’m a fan!
That which is environmentally sound is often economically sound.
But the modern calls to stop DDT use in third world countries (so millions of kids die of malaria every year), to ban incandescent lightbulbs in California, to ban plastic trash bags in San Francisco, or whatever else Al Gore and his ilk want, is simply totalitarian implementation of religion.
March 11, 2007 at
Here is an url that you can send to friends and family that will direct them to the video “The Great Global Warming Swindle”.
http://gorelied.notlong.com
For more information on the documentary you can go here.
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/index.html
March 11, 2007 at
Great post I have the comic on mine with a link to you keep up the truth.
March 11, 2007 at
The eco doomsters are inconsistent. lets take a simple fact. If we had a Von Neumann machine we could put a stop to global warming at a stroke by building a sunshield.
The inconsistency is this. The number od degress C and the sea level rise (m) is set at 2050 or even 2100. Now people come along and talk about robot rights and strong AI. A VN machine only requires weak AI. What will the world be like in 2050 or 2100? We can forecast but don’t really know. There does seem to be a basic inconsistency at the heart of greenery.
March 11, 2007 at
Sean - great link on the “Global Warming Swindle.” I saw that elsewhere and watched the first part. Nicely done!
Bridget - Great points about DDT. What a horrific example of junk science.
When I grew up I don’t recall environmental hysteria. We did recycle newspapers, which seemed fair enough. And I remember that even with all the other evil things my friends and I did we never littered (uh, except for the beer bottles in the park thing which we won’t go into right now!). Littering was a very uncool thing to do.
March 11, 2007 at
I watched this video also, and it should be part of the debate. One show not watched by many has some interesting aspects of the “Cottage Industry” effect of the more radical Green followers. It is by Penn and Teller - whose views on many subjects will not be liked as they are hard Libertarians and atheists. However, it is worth a look.
March 11, 2007 at
Hi Saboma,
Thanks! I’m very pleased to be included in such an important message.
Thanks for your personal welcome and I’m really glad you like the tunes.
Hank
March 11, 2007 at
Hi Bridget,
Being one of the most astute, consistent and rational thinkers I’ve met at wordpress, I would like a favor from you.
Please view the movie below, and balance your current opinion of these matters with the information submitted here. For me, this video added depth and breadth to my skeletal understanding already in place.
Thanks,
Hank
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638
March 11, 2007 at
Sean, thank you for your effort relaying this video here. I’ll do what I can to maximize distribution.
I watched the entire film and recommend it to anyone alive.
Your welcome back anytime,
Hank
March 11, 2007 at
Hi Fray,
Thanks, and watching this is worth every second of your time to do so.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638
Thanks for the link!
Hank
March 11, 2007 at
Hi Ian,
Gee, I guess I’m not snappy enough to pick up on your comment.
I’m assuming you’ve concluded global climate change is not caused by humans, but is a socialist political movement bent on destroying the Great Satan.
If so, welcome to the club!
Hank
March 11, 2007 at
Hi Neil,
I would recommend watching the rest of this movie, maybe with your wife, which I’m going to do later this evening.
You know every third post from me is about global warming, and even greater motivation is my reward after seeing exactly what I believe about the greater message and political movement propping up the junk science with this issue.. and why.
And, littering is still uncool. Regarding your tossing beer bottles around in public parks, I’m shocked. And, at the risk of repeating myself, I always carry a litter bag in my car. When it gets full, I just toss it out the window.
Hank
March 11, 2007 at
Hi Voice,
Thanks for the headsup about P&T. Like you said, their gratuitous vulgarity and anti-God rhetoric is annoying, but maybe I’ll glean something useful from this.
Thanks,
Hank
March 11, 2007 at
Hi Hank,
I saw a bit today where some “important person” was going on about the cost of preventing Global Warming. It would seem that we only going to need sacrifice 1% of global gross national product per year, forever. What the article failed to mention was that, with the move to insane “green” technology, GGNP would be, at best, a stagnant number, and, most likely, would experience a sharp decline. Ah, how the powers that be do like to play with numbers.
the Grit
March 12, 2007 at
Hi Grit,
The next lurch in the wrong direction is to allow this insanity to take it’s course and for the worlds economies to sustain the losses you mention.
Following this, stopping progress, the enemies primary goal, is established. Sure, people will die from being held in slavery of sorts, forbidden to move ahead with even simple modernization, like electricity and running water. Their religious goals of ending capitalism and globalisation will be realized in part.
Funny how this discussion enjoins medieval religious terms such as zealot, barbarian, inquisition and heretic, none of which are exaggerated or misused.
I needn’t remind you that left over socialists, whose goal was defeating the Great Satan, having failed with the end of the Soviet Union, have now been successful in perpetrating yet another totalitarian scheme to end civilization as we know it, and now enjoy the participation and approval of world governments, including our own.
I will support the serious effort to expose and end this monstrous plot, and do whatever I can. I trust you share my goal, and thank you for working in this direction.
Hank
March 12, 2007 at
Another great post. and whoever brought up Penn and Teller, their HBO show was excellent.
March 12, 2007 at
Enter the Church of Anthropogenic Climate Change and Guilt Relief Sales Center…woooooooohoooooo when do the prayers start?..lol..great read!
March 13, 2007 at
Hank - will do. Been busy lately (barely enough time to blog myself!), but I’ll watch, digest, and snark in someone’s general direction.
March 13, 2007 at
[...] Guilt free global warming… Nice, huh? « I Can Plainly See Oh, and here’s a way to purge your sinful transgressions, return to guilt free activity and maintaining life as you want it, assuming you can afford to. You, too, can continue to live exactly as you had before. All you have to do is send cash to the appropriate sin-elimination center of your choice, and they will plant trees or build a big windmill for you and your loved ones. Eco-sin problem removed, life goes on.Well, not exactly. But then, religious charlatans go back eons. The difference now is, where guilt and shame are necessary human emotions to cause a search for relief and purpose in life, eco-guilt is a sham, set up to extort cash and power from other humans. [...]
March 13, 2007 at
[...] Guilt free global warming… Nice, huh? « I Can Plainly See Oh, and here’s a way to purge your sinful transgressions, return to guilt free activity and maintaining life as you want it, assuming you can afford to. You, too, can continue to live exactly as you had before. All you have to do is send cash to the appropriate sin-elimination center of your choice, and they will plant trees or build a big windmill for you and your loved ones. Eco-sin problem removed, life goes on.Well, not exactly. But then, religious charlatans go back eons. The difference now is, where guilt and shame are necessary human emotions to cause a search for relief and purpose in life, eco-guilt is a sham, set up to extort cash and power from other humans. [...]
August 19, 2007 at
global warming is becoming such a obvious problem that someone somewhere other than Al Gore needs to step up to help drive the bus!