…by agreeing with and reposting a photo that insults not only the intelligence of rational thinking people, but Native American people as well. (warning – graphic language)
Source: http://twitter.com/billmckibben/status/314392960777203712
The real reason for a coal terminal? Export. Much like the feared and loathed KXL pipeline will move the oil out of Canada for export, that coal is going to get used somewhere. Since Bill and his friends have worked to demonize coal use in the USA, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, it gets exported to places like China. But, weepy Bill and his protester friends don’t understand much beyond the emotional arguments being made.
All McKibben and the environmental movement have succeeded in doing is shifting the location of the use of these fuels.
I’m not comfortable with this Anthony. Posting pictures of people and inviting personal comments about their appearance descends to the level of pure ad hominem. I also think you are probably asking a bit much if you expect protest placards of any kind to make sense. There just isn’t enough room on one to present a cogent argument. They are like advertisements – written purely to grab attention. Shock value is a good thing in a protest placard.
MattS says:
Who wants a new coal terminal where? A few details would be nice.
Hi Matt, This might help. http://www.pwcs.com.au/pages/projects/t4.php
The new loader is just an extension of the already existing terminal, using land that PWCC have reclaimed from swamp.
That should be PWCS, not PWCC.. sorry
MattS
4th coal terminal at Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Newcastle is suppossedly largest coal port in the world and the coal exporters want to expand it.
The fight has gotten a bit dirty lately. The Greens did an air quality study last year and found that air quality sucks due to coal. Of course the study was biased and results are crap.
Another study last year showed that coal workers at the terminal were 4 times more likely to get cancer than other workers. Of course the study was financed by the Greens so again can be disregarded.
There is more but it is just Green crap. However the people of Newcastle know where their bread is buttered at least and the Greens are mostly losing.
How dare these “greedy” coal mining companies even consider hiring 100’s of thousand of coal miners and greedily export coal to greedy countries that have the audicty to use this coal to supply electricity to billions of people in a greedy effort to have a functioning economy?
Sure, China’s annual per capita GDP has greedily increased from $200 to $6,000 since 1980, but now they’re the #1 consumer of fossil fuels and the #1 polluter of CO2! Have they no shame?
There are Billions of people around the world that make less than $1/day. Why can’t the Chinese stop being so greedy and agree to live in poverty like they did 30 years ago? I mean really! Who do they think they are? What makes them so special? Have they no morals at all?
Laurie Bowen says:
March 20, 2013 at 1:21 pm
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/20/hump-day-hilarity-bill-mckibben-demonstrates-what-a-classy-intelligent-guy-he-is/#comment-1253011
Comment # 1,253,011 ?
What insult to native Americans? There is no native American in that photo. Oh wait, you mean the kid wearing the head dress, right? I guess that is kind of an insult to native Americans. Assuming a genuine head dress, of course.
BCBill sounds a lot like Suzuki 40 years ago, and I was there as a 19 year old starry eyed ( non educated, inexperienced puppy).
Bill it would be wonderful if all the 4 million people living in BC today (women, children, grannies and grand dads, shop keepers, cops, doctors, teachers, nurses, judges, mechanics do you get the point yet? included) would drop everything they are doing and start:
1 making furniture out of the wood that somebody has to cut down, transport to the as yet not built factory but I digress. We have a resource so we trade for that it may actually put a TV in your living room someday!
ZootCadillac says:
March 20, 2013 at 12:55 pm
*Please be aware of a recent survey that found one out of seven dwarves to be Dopey. That might explain why the McKibbens of the world have no trouble recruiting who they do.
Please stop it William McClenney that made my head hurt. LOL
AndyG55 says:
March 20, 2013 at 1:36 pm
“I know one of them (on the left), and you are so correct in your assessment :-)”
Then you owe it to her, in a “You have Spinach on your teeth” kind of way, to share the other side of the Cosmic Interconnectedness’ …. ‘perception’.
@albertalad –
Bravo for your comments. That sort of use of First Nations/Native Canadian (or Native American, as far as that goes) symbols is more than preeumptous, it’s insulting beyond belief. The greenies of course won’t admit the dire consequences their agenda will have for people of color – of all colors – everywhere. But then you have to assume that’s what they really want, in their perverse sick sociopathic minds. To hell with those jobs, and to hell with the benefits you work so hard to bring to the rest of us – that’s their mantra.
Chad says:
@albertalad, bravo.
I mentioned the same thing earlier. And on top of that a decade or so ( and even longer come to think of it) they also used the Australian and New Zealand and other Pacific Nation native populations the same way. But looking back at this conversation over the last few hours to me (and I apologize for some of the off language I used) it is still a sad commentary that our offspring seems to be not much more advanced than we were 40 years ago, but there is hope my 3 grand kids are beautiful!! Thanks everyone .
Hoo-hah! From a PCBS standpoint, doesn’t your caption regarding “the intelligence of rational, thinking people, and Native Americans as well” imply that Native Americans are not rational, thinking people?
By the way, anyone born in North America is “native” to that territory. American Indians are aboriginals, meaning their far-distant ancestors arrived here first, but that’s no grounds either for inverse racial snobbery or for the pejorative implication that whites and others are here on aborigines’ sufferance.
On ‘tother hand, Bill McKibben should be buried neck-deep in an Apache anthill.
Err… it’s hippie chick, alright? How are you gonna argue with that?! 🙂
As a graduate of Middlebury College I am embarrassed to have my alma mater associated with such anti-scientific ideologues as Bill McKibben. A quick browse of the college’s Experts page shows that enviro-alarmism has completely taken over the campus and curriculum, as faculty are available to discuss such issues as global warming, climate change, carbon neutrality, and carbon offsets. At least McKibben is listed as an activist, and not an expert.
If I ever have the means to donate to my college I will compose a well crafted letter to explain why I’d rather donate my money to another cause, rather than an institution seemingly dedicated to Bolshevist indoctrination and revolution.
“Ben Wilson says:
March 20, 2013 at 1:19 pm”
The number plate on the rear of the car in the picture suggests it is New South Wales. So Newcastle, Australia would be correct as there is a massive coal export terminal there, along with a token wind turbine which Anthony has pictures of. I have never seen it in operation, just lots of ships entering the port empty, and leaving brimming with coal. Most of this coal is burnt in China, and Aussies pay AU$23/tonne CO2 carbon tax.
“Paul Homewood says:
March 20, 2013 at 1:25 pm”
An Australian.
another McKibben bleat tweet
ed mister jones says:
“Then you owe it to her, in a “You have Spinach on your teeth” kind of way, to share the other side of the Cosmic Interconnectedness’ …. ‘perception’.”
Well, If I could get her alone for a couple of hours………… 😉
Purely for educational purposes of course…
Where do they ship them to?
Exports are a cost to a region, both in terms of using up labor resources and depleting ground resources. So unless BC has the labor resources to produce products from those ground resources that somebody is going to buy, or that they can produce more cheaply than the competition, why bother?
Extemporaneous dwarf recall:
Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, Grumpy, Dopey, Happy & Doc.
No Greedy
I wonder if these hippy chicks know that marijuana farmers use CO2 to increase their yield.
The American revolutionaries who participated in the Boston Tea Party wore Indian garb and headdresses. That’s probably the allusion the protester was making.
I may be in favor of a 4th coal loader, or at least, I’m in favor of using coal, generally, in order to improve human living conditions. I support voluntary free-market trading in commodities, including coal, recognizing that additional loading facilities may be needed to facilitate such trade.
But I swear never touched Ms. Greedy.
Somebody tell that chick with the headdress that the Village People don’t need a backup because they aren’t around any more.
Reminds me of the old joke about a furniture place called “Sofa King”. “Our prices are Sofa King low you won’t believe it”. BillM is just “Sofa King” funny sometimes. (PS. If you don’t get it say it out loud fast).
I wonder if all the electricity generated by coal plants FOR California IN Mexico is done with the same environmental standards that would be required in the USA. And what about all those plants in China? Me thinks not.