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Fuck Sustainability

By Dr Peter Manglethwaite | 28 Apr, 2008

Enormous challenges? Shit, when hasn’t the world faced enormous challenges?

Climate change, peak oil, metal depletion, lack of clean water for humans and agriculture are lies. Lies perpetuated by soulless greenie communists. The only reason they’re on the agenda for political parties, newspapers and the Catholic church are the bleeding heart liberal media outlets have latched onto the idea of green economics and way of life and have raped the hell out of the idea so that most people have subconsciously acquiesced to the idea that ecological issues are the be all end all.

You could be fooled into thinking we are taking environmental issues seriously.

The real implication of the continued economic growth is that we all get richer. Environmental limits to growth? Pfft. Once again another convenient lie for all those who want us to regress back to the Stone Age. Governments and major businesses are taking steps to match concerns. However as these public concerns are only weak, the measures governments and business have taken reflect that.

Talking about the food riots in developing countries is hypocritical. The push for biofuels from parties like the Greens has reduced the amount of land available for food production. Thus in a way aiding shortages. A better option for sustainable green development would be to concentrate on solar, wind and hydrogen fuel cells. The current situation will only be exacerbated by greenies calling for more biofuels as the world’s population increases. Increasing food prices, fuel prices are what the greenies offer us. Blatant economic destruction.

Human history is conflctious, of course it is. Most western capitalist systems are based on competition, which is a mild form of conflict. What we need to do is increase international law and the regulations of how resources are traded, migration is handled, and how countries support each other. If the things that the Greens predict are going to happen, they should stop bitching about it and work on these points.

Like the Soyuz space craft that landed in Kazakhstan last week, it was off course, but when hasn’t humanity been off course. The astronauts got there in the end, as so will we.

Week on the Blogs

Over the long break the blogs were a flurry of activity.

Conrad poked fun at funny pictures of Winston Peters, once again screamed doom and destruction over the global credit crisis, had a dig at Uganda’s chief rebel leader/religious crazy Joseph Kony, gave John Key the big ups for his internet policy, and criticised the USA for building walls in their Middle Eastern Sandbox.

Jackson gave us an academic assessment of the republican debate. Reflected on the EFA and started a debate thread. What an intellectual guy.

Comment of the Week

Alan Shore
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm

Chris, if you got paid to masturbate you would be richer than John Key.

Chris April
23rd, 2008 at 3:55 pm

I doubt that’s possible. He’s pretty wealthy.