Friday, December 4, 2009

'Thuggish Petro-state' of Canada in Crosshairs of Self-Righteous AGW Alarmists in Leadup to Copenhagen Conference

Patron Saint of the frothing, sanctimonious climate change scaremongers George Monbiot excoriates the Canucks for having the audacity to access their own natural resources.

Just like the hopenhagen.org page that this blog derives its name from, Monbiot's article had all the earmarks of brilliant satire. Only it turns out Monbiot was being as serious as a heart attack. Which makes his screed even funnier.

So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.

"Heeeere I come to save the Day! Mighty Monbiot to save the daaaaay!".

It's as though his 'self imposed ban' on flying is supposed to be as sacrosanct as Batman's 'no-kill' policy, the steely lone hero deciding that the situation at hand is so dire that he has to break on of his long-standing promises on a life-or-death matter. And the end result of Monbiot's going back on his promise to never fly again? Shaking his fist at the Parliament building in Ottawa? Calling PM Stephen Harper a big stinky doody-head? This Guardian column?

And make no mistake about it- if Monbiot had his way, his 'self-imposed ban' on flying would be a self-imposed ban on all of us flying. Except maybe some of the elite and super-rich who can't bear to part with their vacation homes on the French Riviera and will throw money into a poorly-regulated 'carbon offset fund'. The rest of us will just have to walk.

In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. [snip....]

It is now clear that Canada will refuse to be sanctioned for abandoning its legal obligations. The Kyoto protocol can be enforced only through goodwill: countries must agree to accept punitive future obligations if they miss their current targets.

Huh? So if the Kyoto protocol can only be enforced through goodwill, how come China, Brazil, Russia or India aren't being held accountable? Or were they never on board with that particular ponzi scheme to begin with?

Or maybe Canada reversed it's stance on Kyoto because.....oh....I dunno...somebody did the math and realized that complying with the guidelines set forth in Kyoto would kneecap the country's economy? I'm not talking the energy industry either- agriculture, timber, mining, fishing, manufacturing, transportation, utilities.....all cut off at the knees. Sort of like cap and trade in the USA.

Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.

Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayaquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these get-rich-quick schemes impoverished Canada and its reputation. But this is much worse, as it affects the whole world.

After several indignant, foamy paragraphs, this is what the article boils down to. Canada should stop all fishing, energy exploration and timber harvesting because continuing to utilize those natural resources affects how Monbiot and other AGW alarmists FEEL about Canada.

This is vintage, prototypical left-wing thinking (right down to the 'Tar Barons' strawman and relentless browbeating):

Never mind the real-world implications of what we're proposing: It's all about how people should FEEL about it.

UPDATE: Heather Mallick Prostrates herself before Saint Monbiot of the Frothy Indignation in this embarrassingly puffy and fluffy 'rebuttal'. And in the process, makes it clear that it's all about politics.

Monbiot, a hero of mine, had earlier written a toned down piece for the leaden opinion page of Canada's dullest newspaper, the Globe and Mail.

What? There's a shortage of role-models up there? What about Jimmy Doohan- Scotty from Star Trek? He stormed the beaches of Normandy with the Canadian Army on D-Day. Or Terry Fox? Sure, he didn't make it all the way across Canada, but 'E' for effort. Or any one of the Ice Road Truckers....I mean....talk about chutzpah and moxie! Oh wait- driving carbon-spewing 18-wheelers across the tundra, frozen lakes and even the Arctic Ocean each winter kind of puts lie to the claim that the world is ending, the ice is melting and the seas are rising thanks to things like......exhaust from Alex Debagorski's Peterbilt.

Or is your idea of a hero only somebody who advocates that other people make sacrifices and forfeit their freedom of choice and money to unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who lord over them? And would likely be exempt from such sacrifices themselves....

We love the Kyoto protocol, we want to prostrate ourselves in Copenhagen next month, but until we make our mind up about whether to make Michael Ignatieff prime minister, we can't.

May I humbly beg for patience with my country, which is stuck like a beaver in a dam of its own making.

Harper is determined to turn Canada into America-lite. He doesn't mean the America of Obama. He means the America of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, with its private affluence and public squalor.

Good thing- granted it's only 10 months, but the 'America of Obama' doesn't seem to be working out too well so far.

Don't forget the double-digit unemployment! Oh...wait....that too is the 'America of Obama'. Or Carter.

Hell- I'd settle for Harper turning Canada into the America of Clinton. And if Harper does indeed succeed in sabotaging the Copenhagen conference like all the frothy, self-righteous greens insist, I'll be the first to buy a Labatt and raise it in a toast to PM Harper before singing The Maple Leaf Forever.

1 comment:

  1. Labatt? May I suggest a couple better Canadian beers, like Upper Canada Dark or Mill Street Porter. Both true Canadian beers and better tasting.

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