Defending the solecism, TIME's Richard Stengel said,
“[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change. It seems to me that this is an issue that is very popular with the voters, makes a lot of sense to them and a candidate who can actually bundle it up in some grand way and say, ‘Look, we need a national and international Manhattan Project to solve this problem and my candidacy involves that.’ I don't understand why they don’t do that.”
Maybe Richard, it's because most people are sane.
So for self-absorbed types like Mr. Stengel, remedying a fabricated hoax like man-made global warming ought to be afforded the same sense of urgency as combating the Nazi and Japanese terror! This reveals the sordid depths to which the left in America has fallen.
Jonah Goldberg offers salient insights into the darker ideological roots of environmentalism.
From Liberal Fascism:
A perverse and bizarre form of self-hatred has infected certain segments of the eco-left. When Charles Wurster, the chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, was told that banning DDT would probably result in millions of deaths, he replied, “This is as good a way to get rid of them as any" ...Hitler often claimed his vegetarianism was inspired by Wagner, who argued that meat eating and race mixing were the twin causes of man’s alienation from the natural world. Many leading Nazi ideologues also shared today’s deep-seated commitment to animal rights as opposed to animal welfare...The Germans needed to "reconnect" with nature. Animals have exactly such a balance because they are immune to reason. Vegetarianism, public health, and animal rights were merely different facets of the obsession with the organic order that pervaded the German fascist mind...and the liberal fascist mind today. Organic food was seamlessly linked to the larger Nazi conception of the organic nation living in harmony with a pre- or non-Christian ecosystem.
It's pretty obvious that the environmentalist lobby gleans much of its ideological currents from German Romanticism and, by extension, Rousseau.
Veterans of Iwo Jima, who understand quite well what constitutes a real threat to civilization, are furious over this journalistic rotgut and are making their voices heard. Best of luck to them.
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080417171532.aspx
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