June 7, 2011 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?
So begins another narcissistic, self congratulatory and too long piece of fluff by Thomas L. Friedman (spelled with ie, rather than ei as in Weiner).
Malthus was wrong about the actuality of exponential population growth and economic rents (Marx and Mao were influenced by these). The projected demographics for the middle of the Twenty-First Century show first world population aging and declining with population reversals in most of the world as the existing groups age.
At any rate, Friedman willingly fits old and disproved theory into his flat-headed, cap and trade, misguided world view.
His next paragraph starts: “The only answer can be denial,” argues Paul Gilding, the veteran Australian environmentalist-entrepreneur, who described this moment in a new book called “The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World.”
Get that, Gilding (perfect name for a greenie rent sucker) is an environmentalist-entrepreneur. That means this guy is a cap and trade con-man!
The con-men have even organized into what 'Gilding cites the work of the Global Footprint Network, an alliance of scientists, which calculates how many “planet Earths” we need to sustain our current growth rates. G.F.N.'
What a load, as usual. Allow me to quote Friedman once more: "This is not speculation; this is high school science.”
Mooserider
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