James Lovelock, an environmental thinker, suggests we should suspend democracy to deal with global warming. I’m a bit worried, though, if suspending democracy to take on made up problems could be a bad thing, even if those made up problems are serious.
Okay, let’s say we suspend democracy and the government takes special measures to fight global warming, forcing its citizens to do the appease Gaia dance and buy carbon credits — whatever mumbo jumbo they think they need to declare global warming defeated. Maybe we’ll get our democracy back then, or maybe someone will declare a new made up crisis like that unicorns are dying out due to our overuse of salt. Now, no one wants unicorns to die out even if they are fictional, so we leave democracy suspended and save them. And then next thing we know we have to prepare for a leprechaun invasions and so on and so forth and we never get democracy back.
My suggestion is we put James Lovelock and other environmental thinkers into a rocket and blast them into the sun. Then the sun can turn them into superbeings who can solve all our problems. Some say the sun will burn them up, but the math I did and double-checked says it will make them superbeings. Of course, we can argue theory all day but there won’t be any real answers until we blast James Lovelock into the sun.
Can we just shoot the entire island of Great Britain into the sun? Preferably on a day Al Gore is visiting? Most of these kooks seem to be from there–and consequently, it seems to be the source of much of the hot air that’s contributing to “global warming”.
Humans aren’t too stupid to prevent climate change; they are too in significant to prevent climate change.
Gaia is always trying to kill us, why do these idiots still worship her? Stockholm Syndrome because the earth is holding us hostage?
Frank J do your equations give us an idea of how big a rocket we need to blast all of Congress into the sun? I mean they deserve to be turned into superbeings too. Look what all they’ve done for us lately.
Building a rocket to blast them into the sun is too expensive. We’ve had sun-like devices here on Earth that generate great heat and power by using fusion for decades. Just put them all on a bikini-esque atoll and “test” one.
You are not being fiscally conservative, Frank. I instead suggest we cover James Lovelock in chum and use a giant trebuchet to hurl James Lovelock into a shark tank. We can’t know how the sharks will respond until we hurl James Lovelock into their tank.
I agree with Marco – therefore we have a consensus(!). Everyone knows that a consensus(!) can not possibly be wrong. We must throw Mr. Lovelock into the shark tank ASAP. For the children.
“There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary government program”. It’s not even necessary to hypothesize, that once “suspended” democracy would actually be *abolished* is as certain as Obama’s socialist behavior.
Yeah, that “temporarily suspend the Republic” thing sure worked out well for ancient Rome. Ask the Caesars.
“…whatever mumbo jumbo they think they need to declare global warming defeated.”
That right there is the problem. They banned hairspray and Freon because of global COOLING. If they’d had The Zero and his supermajorities back then, they’d have sprayed black carbon dust all over the poles to fight global COOLING. Now they want to tax breathing to fight global WARMING. see? even if they could really do what they claim to be trying to do it would be DISASTER. Fortunately it’s only a harmless scam that doesn’t really do anything significant to the biosphere, but the power to try is not something you want to give politicians.
So say they had actually accomplished what they said they wanted to do back then, that means that now Global WARMING is the fault of the Democrats that banned hairspray and Freon. So there is never a final defeat of the ‘problem’, the emergency must never end. That would be to surrender their hold that they’ve spent so many decades building.
The sun seems a bit over the top being billons of degrees hot and all…
They used the sun in superman 37 or whatever one they used the sun to make a clone of superman.
I’m thinking Democracy has already sailed to join Frodo and the Elves in the West, and it ain’t coming back.
I like Marko’s suggestion too. We already have shark tanks. Think of those poor, disadvantaged sharks who haven’t been able to engage in that time honored shark tradition, the “Let’s rip something to shreds while we feed frenzy.” Did you know those poor sharks were so mistreated? Imagine being a shark in a shark tank and not being able to go nuts with your buddies and rip something apart. Brings a tear to your eye, doen’t it?
I say we start tossing hippies and environmentalists covered in chum into shark tanks. What better way to celebrate Shark Feeding Frenzy Awareness Day?
Good idea, wrong reason. Suspend the constitution and make me boss, and all will be well. I will solve the lack of good affordable 1911’s in 45 acp, a shortage of jalepeno bacon cheseburgers, affordable sports cars, and In My Worlds. I’ll give the nation back when I’m done. Honest. Trust me.
With the 1911s’, sports cars, and jalepeno bacon cheeseburgers global warming will be solved. Science! says so.
@ Marko, DamnCat and Proud Infidel: I support the consensus as well, but even if I didn’t support the consensus, I would support it.
As I see it, the prob with the sun shot is that it would take us forever to build the rocket, even with the constraint that it must work only one way. Better to put them in the trebuchet and tell them it’s a rocket.
I hate to tell you (not really or I wouldn’t), Great Britain is kilometres ahead of us in rejecting AGW. For example, several years back, a British court ruled that airing of “An Inconvenient Truth” in a school must be accompanied by a disclaimer based upon a number of specific inaccuracies. Also, at the moment, most of the best sceptical AGW reporting comes from the UK.
A rocket to the Sun is SO expensive and blasts out all those horrible weather chem-trails!
If he is a God, we should be able to take him up on a 30-story building and simply push…..
…if he flies he is a God and can solve all our problems. If not, we still solve a problem…
“Of course, we can argue theory all day but there won’t be any real answers until we blast James Lovelock into the sun.”
The time for debate is over – we must blast James and Al Gore into the sun.
I think his real problem is people aren’t stupid enough and what better way to eliminate all the people smart enough (IQs over70) to know
he’s full of $hit than “suspending democracy”? If he’s soooo smart, why hasn’t it occurred to him that it’s places that already did suspend democracy, by never having it in the first place, that are the biggest contributors to his non existent “problem”?
True. Instead of suspending democracy, I choose to suspend disbelief.
I wish he’d named one of those best democracies.
I wonder if he would have named Rome and Cincinnatus while ignoring Caesar and Augustus.
It would have been hilarious if he named France and one of their Napoleons.
For goodness sake, this isn’t a scientific theory, it’s an expression of faith in primitive Pantheism. None of the intelligent design ideas are as screwy as Gaia. If some “The Road” level natural disaster threatens to destroy civilization, or humankind, or all life on earth even, and there’s a doable way to protect us, these kooks will stand in the way, and say Gaia must be allowed to pass judgment.
James Lovelock does not represent the views of the majority of those against climate change, including the vast majority of climate scientists. So please don’t generalize.
That is all.
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The effects of Global Warming is getting much stronger these days. We should concentrate more on alternative energy to reduce carbon emissions.