Dickens Goes Metro writes in comments for our other redonkulous climate ethics story today Penn State to lecture on “climate ethics” what I thought at first was a spoof. Sadly, it is all too real.
Coffee spew alert:
National Climate Ethics Statement
To Be Released November 30 On Capital Hill
Senator Barbara Boxer and Rep. Henry Waxman Among List of Speakers
This is our FINAL CALL for signatures. Please send out the message below.
The National Climate Ethics Campaign is pleased to announce that the “Statement of Our Nation’s Moral Obligation to Address Climate Change” will be released Wednesday, November 30 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. in Room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building (The Environment and Public Works Hearing Room).
There are now over 1000 signers now on the climate ethics statement. Please send the message pasted below to organizations, listservs, and people that might endorse it.
If you are in Washington D.C. or vicinity please attend the event. In addition, please urge others know you to attend! Let’s fill the room to tell Congress, the President, and the public that it is our nation’s moral and ethical responsibility to meaningfully address climate change.
Speakers representing a wide range of constituencies will offer their views about our nation’s ethical and moral obligations to address climate change:
Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California)
Virginia State Senator Mary Margaret Whipple (state perspective)
Gary Hirshberg, CEO of Stonyfield Farm (business)
Tim Warman of The National Wildlife Federation (environment)
Jim Ball, VP of The Evangelical Environmental Network (faith)
Joe Uehlein, Labor Network for Sustainability (labor)
Ann Goodman, WNSF (women)
Luisa Saffiotti, Psychologists for Social Responsibility (mental health)
Bobby Pestronk, NACCHO (health)
Lili Molina, Energy Action Coalition (youth)
A speaker representing the NAACP will also speak.
http://climateethicscampaign.org/
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Only 1000 people so far representing the climate ethics of the nation? Gosh.
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A woman in Kenya received a Nobel prize because she planted trees. As a result of her work Kenya got some real benefit.
This crop of idiots are on a bandwagon. They are not interested in helping people in Africa find ways of drought proofing their crops. In fact they destroy those experimental crops as they proclaim them to cause infertility and other defects – without any true studies to support them. After all, here in Australia William Farrer created rust proof wheat crops.
If any of them were serious then they would be looking to improve farming techniques in the prevailing conditions. That does not mean using chemicals on the crops, but actually determining what works best, as well as finding the best practice minimum techniques to improve production.
Instead, we have a group of individuals who have never worked in farming preventing people in developing countries from being able to grow their own food. At the same time they are diverting surplus production in other countries towards “bio fuels”, instead of ensuring that countries where there have been famines get access to that surplus production. Something is very wrong with that picture.
From Russ R. on November 30, 2011 at 9:33 am:
Nothing hypothetical about that. It’s become standard procedure to tax everyone in various ways, hidden and not, distribute the gathered monies to those deemed needy and/or worthy (minus bureaucratic processing fees), and declare this to be a necessary function of government because “you rich greedy bastards” don’t give enough to charitable causes.
This must be very ethical, as the Occupy protesters are calling it “social justice” and demanding more, and justice is always ethical, since it seeks redress and/or punishment for crimes committed. Thus all of us “rich greedy bastards” being taxed must have committed a crime, while the needy and/or worthy are the victims of the crime.
But everyone is being taxed, and we are told the monies collected are benefiting everyone (as with combating climate change)… Therefore everyone is a victim of their own crime!
erstellar Bill says:
November 30, 2011 at 12:06 am
…….Speaking of faux morality,
PETA has been whining for decades
about the half million animals annually killed by cars,….
But PETA never mentions that “… PETA employees killed 94 percent of the dogs and cats in their care last year. During all of 2010, PETA found adoptive homes for just 44 pets…. Since 1998, PETA has opted to “put down” 25,840 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens… “ http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
When you realize that PETA is about destroying the right to own property and not about animal welfare (not rights) this kill rate of course makes sense. PETA is right in their supporting global warming crap of course because the basis, Marxism is the same for both CAGW and the anti-property rights of PETA and the UN’s Agenda 21.
Fight Global Warming by Going Vegetarian | PETA.org http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/global-warming.aspx
Meat and the Environment | PETA.org http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/meat-and-environment.aspx
UN Says Meat Industry Is the Top Contributor to Global Warming
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-greenhouse-hamburger
A couple weeks ago:
No one ever bothers to mention the little factoid about meat and brain development. Of course if you want a dull witted populous that is easily to control starvation/no meat will work wonders. (I still have not figured out if they want to wipe most of us off the face of the earth or they just want to rob us)
I love this one: Study Finds Vegetarians Have Smaller Brains
http://beefmagazine.com/news/0421-vegetarians-smaller-brains/
The Importance of DHA (Docosahexaenoic Acid) http://www.asianonlinerecipes.com/health-fitness/importance-dha.php
Role of red meat in the diet for children and adolescents. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Role+of+red+meat+in+the+diet+for+children+and+adolescents.%28Section+3:…-a0169311698
This from Business Insider mag a year ago takes on new meaning:
Barton Biggs: Stock A Safe Haven With Food And Firearms To Protect Against Doomsday Pillagers http://www.businessinsider.com/barton-biggs-stock-a-safe-haven-with-food-and-firearms-to-protect-against-pillagers-2010-1
Interesting read: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rich-class-beating-99-to-a-pulp-2011-11-01
When costs exceed benefits, bankruptcy ensues.
The ethics costs of AGW support are showing themselves to be immensely higher than any purported benefits. Hence the moral bankruptcy being displayed in that petition.
I wonder what their response would be to having the recent JAXA IBUKI satellite results pointed out, indicating that the underdeveloped nations are inflicting HUGE CO2 emissions on the struggling developed countries, which are using more than they produce, but not enough to compensate. Ethically speaking, it is clear that the underdeveloped countries should be forced to industrialize ASAP.
Re the above: in all honesty, since I consider that CO2 increases are beneficial, any compensation should actually be made in the form of payments to the underdeveloped nations for their generous contributions of CO2, which help keep the West’s agricultural productivity high and forests and gardens flourishing.
But don’t suggest it to the UN; the last thing we need is a claim for financial levies which is actually justified by the science.
Like one that doesn’t know the difference between populus (n) and populous (adj)?
😉 ;p