Posted by
Greg England on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 5:39:12 PM
"Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon."
The article introduces carbon capture technology:
Carbon capture and storage could give coal power an extended lease on life by keeping power plants' greenhouse gas emissions out of the atmosphere and easing climate change.
But then it dashes it against a wall:
But no commercial-scale project exists anywhere to demonstrate the technology, partly because it is expected to increase up-front capital costs by an additional 50 percent.
By using logic:
What algore's enouragement effectively amounts to is a blanket opposition of all coal powered electricity generation
But hang on a minute:
In the 1980s, the National Union of Mineworkers went on strike in 1984, lead by Arthur Scargill, protesting at the closure of pits. This was the definitive cause for all left-wingers and opponents of Margaret Thatcher:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners'_strike_(1984-1985)
It has inspired films:
What are we to make of all of this? Well, gather round, and I will let you into a little secret:
"You don't have to debate a liberal to win the argument. That's because for every liberal who is passionately in favour of X, you will find another liberal who is equally passionately against X."
Liberalism is utterly riddled with contradictions. Liberals are not united by their opinions. Otherwise, why would fundamentalist Muslims march with gay rights activists and feminists under an anti-war banner?
Mutual Respect?
I don't believe it. I don't believe for a moment that we are talking about "tolerance" or "diversity" else how do you explain the visceral hatred that liberals have for Christians, for conservatives and especially for Christian conservatives?
Truth be told, liberals are on an unholy mission to control our lives.
However, there is one small consolation. Because liberalism is full of contradictions there are only so many liberals that you can gather together in one place before you reach a critical mass.
A bit like Uranium 235.
So encourage liberals to gather together in one place, stand back and watch their heads explode.