Ted Turner's been thinking. Thinking a lot. This NewsBusters article offers an entertaining view into the mind of Ted when its wheels are churning away.
There is the usual "war is bad, we should stop fighting" stuff. Well yea... the first part is a given, the second part is rather more problematic. In talking about Iraq he says, "I think that they're patriots and that they don't like us because we've invaded their country and occupied it. I think if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same thing: we'd be bombing them too. Nobody wants to be invaded."
Patriots? I suppose, then again, I imagine the Waffen SS also thought they were being patriotic when they were defending the rubble of Berlin. There might be more to it than just bandying the word patriot about.
But enough of that, such happy claptrap is rather common in some circles. What elevates Turner to the rarefied heights of nuttery few have achieved are his deep thoughts on global warming (no waffling on about climate change for him). Have a look at a bit of it:
"Not doing it will be catastrophic. We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state -- like Somalia or Sudan -- and living conditions will be intolerable. The droughts will be so bad there'll be no more corn grown."
Yowza! That sounds even worse then Mad Max. No roaring around in souped up dune buggies, with stylish Mohawk hairdos, for our future selves. We won't be looking for gas, we'll be searching for the other red meat. I have dibs on Michael Moore -- he should feed me and my family for a week or two.
4 comments:
Nitwit does not cover it. Flaming Moonbat is closer.
I'm convinced that historians will one day look back and see this as a kind of vaguely Christian-derived (though not Christian) apocalyptic cult infecting certain segments of the West. We have the depravity and sinfulness of man and his possible salvation through good works.
Or sumpthin'.
Skook,
I hope you check in on this again.
Re: the "christian cult" but "not christian" thing...
Gaia Almighty! I'm a non-believer. I have long experience with Christians and people knocking on my door to Chat About Christ. I attended Roman Catholic grammar school and 9th grade. I have several friends who would describe themselves as "saved" or "reborn" or "evangelical" (more than several).
The shitferbrains running around blathering about the "environment" are astonishingly more "evangelical", "reborn", and "saved" than any Christian I have ever been exposed to.
Oh, and what I forgot to mention was that, in my conversations with myself, I refer to those shitferbrains as "apocalyptoids". They want heavenly punishment and a Pope in the worst way.
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