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« A Gorgy of Hate | Main | Good Friday » April 6, 2007Global Warming Won't Kill Knut the Baby Polar BearDouglas Kerns address the hypocrisy of carbon offsets in a hilarious piece that explains why German environmentalists want to kill Knut the baby polar bear. Consider Al Gore again. No man who genuinely believed in a looming apocalypse would live like a prince while soothing his conscience with carbon offsets - the latter-day equivalent of plenary indulgences. For Gore, and for too many environmentalists, global warming is simply a pretext for a secular Lent: a time of sacrifice and reflection, but without that pesky God business to get in the way of the really fun stuff. As aging Baby Boomers look with trepidation upon the much-avoided reality of their own mortality, expect ever more stringent acts of self-denial camouflaged as environmental politics. Our graying cultural overlords have a great many sins for which to atone, and a great deal of money to waste atoning for them.Read the whole thing. Most of it has nothing to do with Gore.
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