Epiphany in Green - Commentary by Michael Kilpatrick, the Dirt Road Scholar

Michael Kilpatrick

Michael Kilpatrick is a painting contractor in Macon, husband of one wife, father of nine children. He is a firearms enthusiast, troubler of the 'progressive' elite, and a Christian, Southern, Constitutionalist.

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Epiphany In Green – Commentary by Michael Kilpatrick, 2/13/10

Change of Heart?

We should all be aware of climate change. The climate seems to be changing all the time - every decade, and every century it changes (not to mention weather changes every day, week, and year). If we didn't keep up with it as we should, we could find ourselves in shorts and tank-tops in a climate change situation like we have now (e.g., snow in Mobile and across Alabama and into southwest Georgia with forecasts for 2-4 inches of snow in central Georgia).

I am having a few misgivings about just shutting off the worldwide oil spigots immediately (like we've done in this country), and plugging our electric cars into that magical outlet from which power just appears out of nowhere (the Whitehouse stash?). And though I know all cultures are equal, I'm still reluctant to live in a mud hut and grub for roots and berries, so as to reduce my carbon footprint (hey, aren't we 'carbon' based life forms?).

I'm even more reluctant to have some federal bureaucrat determine my weekly allotment of firewood for that eco-friendly mud housing unit.

I may even be experiencing a change of heart. I really like to ride my bike, but after a couple of brutal episodes of pushing the lower limits of my body temp threshold, it has to be closely approaching 60 degrees before I'll even think about it. Anyway, I realize that as al'Goracle says, 'When the planet has a fever, it gets chills.' But if global warming (GW) is causing the chills, then how do we get it to cause warming instead, so I can ride my bike? [Editor's Note: Anybody seen Al Gore lately?]

If warming causes cooling, can cooling cause warming?

If we turn the world into a third world hunter/gatherer society to stop GW, will it just snow more? Is there a fine tuning plan to produce the 'optimum' temp? What is it? Can it be mine (my preference)? I like it never getting below 60 degrees. Is that good for you?

Al Gore's inconvenient "science" sure gets confusing. I had trouble following Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto (The Unabomber), so I found another Environmental Manifesto that made more sense by Lew Rockwell (He' a crazy dude from the Mises bunch over in Alabama that the SPLC and other leftists love to hate). Excerpts below.

That Old Time Enviro-Religion

Ron James, an English Green leader, says the proper level of economic development is that "between the fall of Rome and the rise of Charlemagne."
"The only way to live in harmony with Nature is by living at a subsistence level," as the animals do.
--Lew Rockwell, from Rockwell's Anti-Environmentalist Manifesto

The invasive tampering with human nature which the totalitarian regimes have tried to implement during the 20th century can be laid at the feet of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the father of modern environmentalism. Environmentalism is an anti-human, anti-science and anti-technology religion. It worships an undefined entity called The Environment which has some of the characteristics of the Christian Heaven, but without humans.
--American Rebel blog, Environmental Nazis

Sounds quaint. And cold.

Cold feet on this new religion has made me cold all over. Yall excuse me while I put more wood on the fire. ---Dirt Road Scholar

The New Socialism

Today we face an ideology every bit as pitiless and messianic as Marxism. And like socialism a hundred years ago, it holds the moral high ground. Not as the brotherhood of man, since we live in post-Christian times, but as the brotherhood of bugs. Like socialism, environmentalism combines an atheistic religion with virulent statism. But it ups the ante. Marxism at least professed a concern with human beings; environmentalism harks back to a godless, manless, and mindless Garden of Eden.
If these people were merely wacky cultists, who bought acres of wilderness and lived on it as primitives, we would not be threatened. But they seek to use the state, and even a world state, to achieve their vision.
And like Marx and Lenin, they are heirs to Jean Jacques Rousseau. His paeans to statism, egalitarianism, and totalitarian democracy have shaped the Left for 200 years, and as a nature worshipper and exalter of the primitive, he was also the father of environmentalism.
During the Reign of Terror, Rousseauians constituted what Isabel Paterson called "humanitarians with the guillotine." We face something worse: plantitarians with the pistol.
--Lew Rockwell, from Rockwell's Anti-Environmentalist Manifesto

Editor's Note: Planetarians with bombs are worrisome, too. For those of you anxious to get in touch with your Green Faith, we hear that Ted's place up in Montana is available... cheap. Er, that's Kaczynski's place, not Turner.