In the comments to a post on Scott Adams’ Blog, an annoying liberal asked an irritatingly cliched environmentalist rhetorical question:

“So… why gamble with the one Earth we’ve got?”

and got an answer that made me happy:

Because I don’t like the gamble of sacrificing western civilization and allowing china to dominate us based on an unproven claim that suspiciously gives liberals everything they’ve ever wanted cloaked as science and also suspiciously allows our unregulated competitors to surpass us. Seems like a lot of my enemies benefit from convincing me that continuing to prosper is a “gamble”. What could possibly go wrong with plunging us back into a 1700s level of prosperity?