Posted by
Greg England on Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:16:31 PM
On BBC3 the other evening I stumbled across a TV programme called “Outrageous Wasters”. The basic premise is that a bunch of do-good-know-it-all-pinko-Commie-libs take the average wasteful but successful capitalist family, and preach their enviro-wacko views at them in an re-education camp until they are converted to the noble cause of saving the planet from the wickedness of mankind. The family collect water from a stream, grow their own vegetables, and generally engage in a series of pointless Third World acts, turning their backs on the glories of the Industrial Revolution.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/outrageous_wasters/index.shtml
Meanwhile, as the family have their brains turned into mush, the BBC sets about destroying their home, fitting solar panels, wind turbines, compost toilets and timers on their showers so that when the Manchurian candidates finally return to their home they will be able to indulge their new found liberal guilt.
“But if you don’t like what’s on TV, you know where the off button is!”
Yeah, that’s easy for you to say. But who do you think paid for this show? I did!
In the United Kingdom, we are compelled by LAW to purchase a television licence every year, if we want watch television. This year the licence fee is £135.50 ... which is equivalent to $274.42 at the time of writing this blog. This is regardless of whether or not we even want to watch the BBC. And anyway, the last time I tried living without a television was during 2001, which was not a good year to be without a TV.
Now consider this cost comparison folks ...
In July 2006, the Iranian backed Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) was gleefully complaining about the Iraq war costing the UK a TOTAL of £4 billion.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2006/07/iraq-060711-irna01.htm
Peanuts! The BBC is not far off spending this amount of money in ONE YEAR!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC and http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/ (Page 90)
Don't misunderestimate me. I'm not suggesting for a moment that the war in Iraq can be regarded purely in financial terms. But when you look at the BBC budget ... well, comparatively speaking they are rolling in cash.
Cash is coming out of their ears, and eyes and noses. What do you suppose the size of their carbon footprint is? I bet we could save the planet simply by closing down the Beeb! But instead, BBC3 treats me to Dan, the ‘self-styled anarchist’ and Joanna who wears ‘hemp clothes’. Compost toilets? I have two words to say to you: Joseph Bazalgette!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bazalgette_joseph.shtml
Final word on environmentalism
For any liberals out there who think I’m beyond redemption, I am going to break Ann Coulter’s second rule of talking to liberals (Rule 2: Don’t be defensive) in the vain attempt that you might also meet me half-way and realise just how crazy this fanaticism is.
As I have stated on numerous occasions, I’m not actually opposed to looking after the environment. I recycle bottles and cans, and my newspapers. I have energy saving light-bulbs fitted. If the enviro-wackos would consider nuclear power as a serious option for our future energy needs hey I might even take them seriously!
But because I take a more considered view, do my own research, and refuse to join the shrill liberal drumbeat that we are all going to drown rather inconveniently under 20 foot high waves unless we live in mudhuts ... well, I’m an outcast! I’m a greedy wicked capitalist! I am a denier!
Let me tell you something ... these people have no idea what wickedness is!Thankfully, there are others out there who share my frustrations and are far better than I am at articulating an enviro-realist worldview. Take the following view for example:
“... human life is sacred and that God placed man in a position of having dominion over nature; that environmental awareness is healthy, but that apocalyptic environmentalism based on disinformation and hysteria is destructive to society and man’s best interests.”
Now where do you think this paragraph came from? Sounds like something a moderate Christian ecologist would come out with doesn’t it?
Well, I’ll tell you. It came from the following book:
“The Way Things Ought to Be”, by Rush Limbaugh, published 1992
I bet you didn’t see that coming, did you?