Suzuki has meltdown

February 14th, 2008, 09:51 AM

Suzuki is a "neoecofascist."

February 14th, 2008, 10:12 AM

Wait, who were the original Ecofascist? You have to have original Ecofashists in order to be labeled a Neo-Ecofascist..... sorta like Nazis and Neo-Nazis (Hardballers and Wannabes)

February 16th, 2008, 08:07 PM

Probably Greenpeace could qualify for that one.

I encountered Suzuki in person once, in a hotel elevator about 30 years ago. Once was enough. He was surly, rude, and unpleasant to people who were merely trying to show appreciation for the interesting work he'd done on various tv programs. I've had a hard time taking him seriously since.

I've been reading environmental doomsday claims since 1970, starting with another biologist, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Nobody's been close to being right yet. According to Ehrlich's 1970 book, Population, Resources, Environment, the environment should have collapsed some time toward the end of the 1980s, because we didn't do what he said we should to prevent it. I think most of these doomsayers are right about only one thing: there are too many people on the planet, and that's the real root of most environmental problems. In simple terms, it's perfectly okay to crap in the woods and streams, every other critter that lives there does it, and nature has provided assorted insects and bacteria and fungi to recycle it. But when you get 6 billion people crapping in the same woods and streams the natural recycling processes are overwhelmed and the place begins to stink.

February 16th, 2008, 08:22 PM

While we are on the subject,how about the other eco-elite,Al Gore? Gore charges $125,000 for an appearance to show his slide show. He DOES NOT answer questions after his show. Dr. Fruitfly and the goracle are rolling in the dough,fleecing the sheep,who buy their crap to alleviate their guilt. Both of these charlatans declare that the debate is over,the science is settled. But,it is not,there are many opposing views to the work that they regularly cite. In Britain,Gore's movie is not allowed to be shown in schools because of it's many proven inaccuracies. It is a sham,a doomsday scenario,designed to separate fools from their money. And it works!!!

February 16th, 2008, 09:36 PM

Yeah, isn't he something? Yeesh....! Right you are, that's exactly the point. The public global warming debate is essentially political, not scientific, and that's happened because too many people are scientifically illiterate, they think science deals in certainties. The data seem pretty clear that the climate is warming, but it's also pretty clear that's been going on since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago. What's at issue is the human contribution to it, and that's far less certain. It's perfectly clear from the geological record that the planet has undergone climate changes far more dramatic than anything that's happening now, and survived. The whole earth was once tropical, and carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were over three times what they are now. There have also been times when about half the surface of the globe was covered with ice and carbon dioxide levels were less than half what they are now.

The earth is fine, it can take care of itself like it always has. And if some day it shakes us off like a bad case of fleas.... well, them's the hazards. Over 90% of the species that have ever lived are extinct, that's the normal result for any species, that's how nature works and we are not outside of it. I think it'd be a shame if we hastened our demise through our own folly, but if we do, it'll only be because we deserve it, and it's just another natural process.