Posted by
LouGanzo on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:47:39 AM
Well, it's been a real circus in Copenhagen. What else would one expect? Anytime you get a bunch of "faith-based" environmentalists together and give young protesters a shot at them, it's bound to be fun. Climate-Gate is world news and yet they still believe ever more fervently. Good for them.
I was struck that Arnold Schwartzenegger has become the great spokesman for environmentalism's marriage with economic growth. This is akin to being the spokesman for Michael Moore's marriage with Slim-Fast. Arnold claims that California has worked out keeping jobs and economy going while dealing with environmental issues. That is a comment so far removed from reality it staggers the mind. Governor, quit following and lead.
Ask the people in the California's Central Valley, one of the greatest centers of agriculture the world has ever known. They had their irrigation water turned off by the state this last summer and lost billions in crops and orchards over some tiny fish, the Delta Smelt, that environmentalists claimed was threatened by aggriculture. So, in the middle of an economic recession Arnold chose to starve people and ruin land that had been one of the great agricultural sites in the world for over a century due to claims that a tiny fish was threatened. One is reminded of the good old days when the spotted owl was used by environmentalists to stop logging in the forests of the U.S. Northwest. It was claimed that these trees were the only habitat where these owls could survive. They succeeded and put people out of work and ruined businesses that produced food on people's tables. The problem was that it was all based on a lie. The university that produced the study had these owls living on campus. There was a nest of these little home wreckers living in a sign of a local business. So these claims are often unreliable at best.
The Central Valley water turn off was a catastrophe for people and was the height of disengaging from economic reality in favor of faith in environmental claims.
Now lets consider California's energy policies in context of marrying environmentalism with economic growth. There is likely no greater contradication in the world of logic (or credulity in general) than to say that California's energy policy over the last five decades is an example of a wonderful melding of Environmentalism and Economic Growth. For the governor of the state in question to make the claim "We've proved that over and over again in California" in relation to the Great Marriage is to me a fabulous example of the old axiom that if you repeat something frequently enough people will believe it no matter how absurd it is. California - We love so many things about you, but your energy policy is the poster child for the fact that Environmentalism is a mental disorder and has no relationship to economic growth. Nor can it, because at it's heart environmentalists want the end of business. They are, at their heart, all Thomas Jeffersons - seeking utopian, pastorale farm life for us all with no industry and no growth and no banking and no investment and - it turns out - no prosperity. There is very little utopian farm life for those of the Central Valley these days.
Governor, please mend your ways and your state. Lead, Governor, lead.