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An Infidel babe of the day?

I despise being told what I should care about and I hate the notion that someone elses alarmist rhetoric is my problem.  That is why I hold earth day and global warming nutjobs in rational contempt.  Perhaps the greatest marketing coup over the past decade has come from the Al Gores of the world convincing us all that we are in immenent danger from environmental catastrophe.  Somehow they have managed to convince the self-loathing western democracies that their behavior needs to change.  In reality, they are convincing the west to commit political, social and economic suicide.  They are impolitely asking the west to step aside so the third world can assume the role of polluters, population boomers, and economic leaders.  And why?  Because we should have some guilt complex associated with our polluting habits. 

But the reality is often quite different from the truth.  I would say that the environmental stewardship of our own ‘Farmer Dave’ or fisherman Hairy Beast is equal to that of the self-annointed nannies.  And despite the notion that only aggressive economic engineering at the hands of the social democracies of the world can save mother earth, I believe that capitalism has done quite well.  Consider the following editorial in IBD:

Buried beneath all the badgering and fear-mongering about lavish Western lifestyles is a reality that the stuck-on-green left won’t talk about and the average American isn’t aware of: The world, especially in developed nations, is a cleaner — and greener — place than it was when the environmental movement began.

Every year Steven Hayward, a scholar at the Pacific Research Institute and the American Enterprise Institute, compiles his Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. And every year, his findings contradict the alarmists’ warnings that the world is on the edge of environmental cataclysm.

From evidence “that tropical rain forests may now be expanding faster than they are being cut down” to the improving health of U.S. ocean fisheries to better outdoor air quality in American cities with the worst air pollution, Hayward shows there’s more to be optimistic about than there is to be troubled about.

The Environmental Protection Agency has also published its own Report on the environment. Last year’s report, the most recent, indicates outdoor air quality has improved, there’s been a net gain in wetland acreage, public-source drinking-water problems are uncommon and forest land is expanding after declining for a century.

Despite the gains, the dupes will still feel angry at capitalism because a hurricane strikes some coast.  They will still volutarily sit in the dark for an hour just to prove they can.  They will still believe that creating stagnation in western economies will keep the poor polar bears alive.  And they will still celebrate a ‘Holy day’ that teaches children what they should already be taught at home: throw away your trash, be a good steward of all things, and play nice.

Happy earth day suckers!