The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
nybooks.com
The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
1–10 of 59 posts
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#2> The sheer novelty of Dooley’s existence has proven irresistible to journalists—netting her gawking profiles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and on National Public Radio—but that coverage has tended to obscure her extremism. Alongside advocating for sustainable energy, Dooley’s other pet issues are opposing amnesty for undocumented immigrants and increasing border security.
Enforcing current immigration law, which would leave legal immigration into the US at the near-record 1.1 million per year, is now (presumably anti-immigrant) extremism? In almost any other country, this would be pro-immigrant extremism!
To give a sense of comparison, 15.1% of the US population is foreign born, compared to 1.7% for Japan, and 0.1% for China.
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#3> The sheer novelty of Dooley’s existence has proven irresistible to journalists—netting her gawking profiles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and on National Public Radio—but that coverage has tended to obscure her extremism. Alongside advocating for sustainable energy, Dooley’s other pet issues are opposing amnesty for undocumented immigrants and increasing border security. Enforcing current immigration law, which woul…
[deleted]
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#4Not surprised to see the left slowly distancing itself from environmentalism (save climate hysteria), given the coming African population bomb:
http://theconversation.com/theres-a-strong-chance-that-one-t...
4.5 billion Africans by 2100 will mean ecological devastation the likes of which we've never seen, and traditional environmentalism will increasingly prove difficult to reconcile with anti-racism.
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#5Not surprised to see the left slowly distancing itself from environmentalism (save climate hysteria), given the coming African population bomb: http://theconversation.com/theres-a-strong-chance-that-one-t... 4.5 billion Africans by 2100 will mean ecological devastation the likes of which we've never seen, and traditional environmentalism will increasingly prove difficult to reconcile with anti-racism.
[deleted]
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#6The KISS solution would be to shoot all 1.4B cows on earth. That would slow climate change significantly and give us enough time to transition the world into using renewable resources. Also before I get downvoted for suggesting such an appalling idea as going on a cow murdering genocide, stop and reflect about the origin of that big piece of meat you ate for dinner tonight. Let's kill these cows once and for all.
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#7The KISS solution would be to shoot all 1.4B cows on earth. That would slow climate change significantly and give us enough time to transition the world into using renewable resources. Also before I get downvoted for suggesting such an appalling idea as going on a cow murdering genocide, stop and reflect about the origin of that big piece of meat you ate for dinner tonight. Let's kill these cows once and for all.
Methane accounts for less than 20% of all GHG emissions (in CO2 equivalent units), and cows are only responsible for a part of that. Reducing the number of cattle is important, but killing all cattle would only buy us a few years before we have to completely decarbonize the global economy. In industrialized economies, agriculture's relative impact is even lower, since we emit so many GHGs from other sources.
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#8> The sheer novelty of Dooley’s existence has proven irresistible to journalists—netting her gawking profiles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and on National Public Radio—but that coverage has tended to obscure her extremism. Alongside advocating for sustainable energy, Dooley’s other pet issues are opposing amnesty for undocumented immigrants and increasing border security. Enforcing current immigration law, which woul…
China and Japan are both quite unfriendly to outsiders and ridiculous choices to compare with a country formed almost entirely of immigrants from the quite recent past.
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#9Not surprised to see the left slowly distancing itself from environmentalism (save climate hysteria), given the coming African population bomb: http://theconversation.com/theres-a-strong-chance-that-one-t... 4.5 billion Africans by 2100 will mean ecological devastation the likes of which we've never seen, and traditional environmentalism will increasingly prove difficult to reconcile with anti-racism.
If we haven't learned how to live sustainably by 2100, we'll have wrecked the planet anyway. Future environmentalism will likely be about helping developing countries skip the extremely polluting stage of development.
Re: The Menace of Eco-Fascism (2018)
#10> The sheer novelty of Dooley’s existence has proven irresistible to journalists—netting her gawking profiles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and on National Public Radio—but that coverage has tended to obscure her extremism. Alongside advocating for sustainable energy, Dooley’s other pet issues are opposing amnesty for undocumented immigrants and increasing border security. Enforcing current immigration law, which woul…
China and Japan are both quite unfriendly to outsiders and ridiculous choices to compare with a country formed almost entirely of immigrants from the quite recent past.
True, but still hardly any kind of extremism.