Carbon Footprint Diminishment Advocated
By Rush Limbaugh, who suggests a New York Times enviro-columnist who advocates birth control for Gaia engage in a higher degree of planet-saving action and off himself. Lefties are scandalized.
It’s more “Do as we say, not as we have any intention of doing ourselves.” As in “disappear, humans.”
Remember that British twit who aborted her child to save the planet? It wasn’t rape or incest or financial stress or even youthful inconvenience. She was married, and the dad was reportedly on board with it. They killed the kid to satisfy the earnest keening of their inner dingbat.
Lacking the moral fortitude to end it all herself, Toni Vernelli’s still producing carbon dioxide, near as I can tell from a quick Google search … that’s a demise that theoretically would be newsworthy. Which means she’s still producing a fair amount of carbon monoxide, too. Flips the occasional light switch, boils her brown rice and sautes the tofu, heats the flat in the winter time, wears clothes, rides a bus, maybe even rides trains and planes or boats her way around Europe, as she’s a former coordinator of Euro operations for PETA, and presumeably at some level still involved in attending or arranging public annoyances.
The Daily Mail she got herself sterilized in her early 20s, though it wasn’t easy finding a doc to do it. They kept warning her that someday “an urge to breed would overcome all rational thought.”
No danger of that. Rational thought, that is. I have no respect for people who think humans are a cancer, but lack the conviction to do themselves for Gaia. They’re as bad as those chickendoves who bawk about U.S. warmongering and don’t show up for human-shield duty. (How many have actually sat out a human shield gig to date in the hated GWOT? Not one.) I have no respect for people who drive Priuses. Not the ones who want to save a few hundred bucks a year by driving a golf cart. That’s their business. I mean the ones who think they are doing it for the planet. Feel an urge to do your bit? Walk. No oppressing horses, either. Abandon your apartment in Cambridge or Berkeley or whatever la-di-da suburb you live in. Go live in the woods. Not the ones near my house. Forget supermarkets, stop going to food coops. That stuff isn’t hauled in by mancart, you know. Like food? Do you have any idea the extent to which the ecosystem has been altered to accommodate human-controlled biological production processes over the last 10,000 years? End the terraforming! Toilet paper? You’re doing what with nature’s towering sylvan grandeur?
Sorry about the rant, I got carried away.
About that NYT scribbler that Limbaugh advised to kill himself. All he advocated was contraception, which I highly encourage for rabid eco-warmalists. Do not reproduce. He didn’t, as far as we know, go so far as to off his kid for Gaia. So I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest he off himself. But if he really believes fewer humans are what we need, one less New Yorker is a good place to start.
Revkin responds! In a sophisticated, basic-black, Gothamy, world-weary … no, not that world-weary … yet hand-wringingly earnest kind of way:
I’d like to think that Rush Limbaugh was floating a thought experiment, and not seriously proposing something, when he told millions of listeners the following: “Mr. Revkin, why don’t you just go kill yourself, and help the planet by dying.”
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This might be funny, in a sad way, if it weren’t for the fact that my mailbox is already heaped with hate mail. And of course there’s the reality that explosive population growth in certain places, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, could be blunted without a single draconian measure, many experts say, simply by providing access to family planning for millions of women who already want it, but can’t get it — whether or not someone gets a carbon credit in the process.
Thanks for reminding me. I forgot to mock the carbon-credit for not reproducing part. I wanted eight kids, only had three. Pay up, please. The fun part is, unlike the other proposals for carbon credits that would drain industrialized nations credits and ship all our money to the third world, this one would pretty much reverse the flow. Bangladesh would end up in debt to Sweden.
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Topics: moronocy, warmalism, western civilization
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:02 pm on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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October 20th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
“here’s the reality that explosive population growth in certain places, particularly sub-Saharan Africa,”
The standard environmentalist complaint: “There are too many brown babies”.
They get really upset when I say that: “environmentalism is the last socially acceptable form of racism.”
But it’s true.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Yeah, they pretty much don’t like the human race.