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Crack a few eggs…
Posted by Duncan on August 16th, 2007
… to make a global cooling global warming climate change omelet.
The Orang-utans of Borneo are facing an unprecedented threat as their habitat is destroyed to satisfy increasing global demands for bio-fuel.
As jungles are rapidly replaced by palm oil plantations, the great apes starve and are hunted, mutilated, burnt and snared by workers protecting their crops.At a rehabilitation centre run by the charity Borneo Orang-utan Survival, there are more than 600, mostly orphaned babies. Lone Nielsen, the centre’s director, estimates that for each of the 227 animals they rescued last year, five more were killed in central Borneo alone.
But Jeff G at Protein Wisdom nails it with this statement…
Inconvenience a few caribou; beat, slaughter and torch to death the second most intelligent primates on earth so you can pretend you’re doing something about the crisis of “climate change” pushed by Al freaking Gore.
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Ah, what the hell. Sometimes you have to be willing to burn a jungle to the ground and beat its native wildlife to death with sticks in order to save it.
The rush to alternative fuels is putting other stresses on the environment. No such thing as a free lunch. More farm land and corn for bio-diesel, less food for cows and humans. Gotta pay the piper somewhere. (but don’t tell the eco-hippies this.. it will blow their simple minds…)
August 17th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Rushing to biofuels isn’t the final answer to reducing dependence on hydrocarbon fuel. It is however a worthwhile step so long as the habitat isn’t run by impoverished people looking to wipe out a unique ecosystem so they can grow a fuel crop.
The better step we could be taking is to double the fuel efficiency of our vehicle fleet, and we’d have approximately twice as much oil supply as soon as that happens. And we’d need half as much biofuel. Incidentially, biofuel can be made from animal waste rather than from fresh crops.
August 17th, 2007 at 8:07 am
These people who have been pushing for the alternatives should have foreseen the consequences. Like the Lemoncrats, they don’t have the ability to think ahead, anticipate and plan for problems. It’s called leadership…a trait not seen too often among those who claim to be global citizens.
August 17th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Incidentially, biofuel can be made from animal waste rather than from fresh crops.
Does this mean there’s a good use for bull[bleep]?
Not a bad idea, though. We get plenty of waste from farm animals, most of which are herbivores. Passing through the animal would merely be the first step in the process.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Sask,
I am not against being good stewards of our environment. I am not against bio-fuels. Look at Brazil. It took them 30 years to switch over to ethanol. Yet our eco-warriors seem to think that if we don’t swap over now, then we’ll all be living on a ball of fire in the next decade.
And unfortunately, many of the poor are looking for a way to make some $$$$ so that they can stop being poor, so they want to take advantage of the hysteria created by the global warming alarmists (chicken littles they are) who demand we switch over. We really need alternative fuels, I agree. But someone needs to step forward as a calm leader to make sure this is a orderly change…
August 17th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
second most intelligent primates on earth.
Just ahead of eco-fanatic libs.
August 17th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
…and someone needs to be an honest broker in all this too. We need the facts, not the popular opinions of a few well placed well agenda’d “scientists”….
We also need to make it an incentive to switch. Not a chore or duty or ….eek….a job.
Know what I mean?
August 19th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Not only an incentive, but a way. If I want to switch to an alternative fuel… I can’t. There are no alternative fuels with the infrastructure to make it realistically possible to obtain the fuel. Remember, 30 years for Brazil to switch over to complete ethanol. Big oil has to want to make the switch. Not likely when they are making $$$
August 27th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Capitalist Thinking at it’s finest.
“The better step we could be taking is to double the fuel efficiency of our vehicle fleet, and we’d have approximately twice as much oil supply as soon as that happens.”
If half of the spoiled, lazy, and uneducated s**t-talkers in this country would just stop buying cars, then we would use half as much oil. Nothing would have to be burned, manufatured, or killed. A simple choice to not use unsustaible natural resources solves the problem. Admit that you are all just lazy americans and refuse to give up even the smallest of your luxuries…then you canblame people for trying to solve legitimate problems.
August 27th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Jeffrey,
Typical leftist eco-hippie. Alot of the other developing countries, India and especially China, are sucking up the “unsustainable natural resources” as fast as us “lazy americans” are. Even if we were to give up “the smallest of our luxuries”, even horrible eco-treaties such as Kyoto exempted polluting nations like China. Perhaps the spoiled, lazy and un-educated eco-s**t-talkers like Al Gore, whose mansion sucks up more energy than five average Americans families, put their money where their mouth was, then we would use half as much “unsustainable” energy.
Douche.