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Subject: Re: "Trickle-Down Ecology ... What might once have been referred to as 'back-breaking labour'

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Date Posted: 22:17:34 09/06/07 Thu
In reply to: Curmudgeon 's message, ""Trickle-Down Ecology ... What might once have been referred to as 'back-breaking labour'" on 12:22:16 09/06/07 Thu

LOL that was funny!

>is now spun as 'human energy.' ... Global-warmism is
>not just some harmless enthusiasm; it can be
>despicable and inhuman."
>_______________________________________________________
>___
>
>Trickle-Down Ecology
>
>Brendan O'Neill of the online magazine Spiked calls
>our attention to an astonishing report that appeared
>last week in London's Times. You thought this "carbon
>offset" business was a scam? It turns out it's even
>worse, as O'Neill explains:
>
>In [the Times article] it was revealed that the leader
>of the UK Conservative Party, David Cameron, offsets
>his carbon emissions by effectively keeping brown
>people in a state of bondage. Whenever he takes a
>flight to some foreign destination, Cameron donates to
>a carbon-offsetting company that encourages people in
>the developing world to ditch modern methods of
>farming in favour of using their more eco-friendly
>manpower to plough the land. So Cameron can fly around
>the world with a guilt-free conscience on the basis
>that, thousands of miles away, Indian villagers, bent
>over double, are working by hand rather than using
>machines that emit carbon.
>
>Welcome to the era of eco-enslavement.
>
>The details of this carbon-offsetting scheme are
>disturbing. Cameron offsets his flights by donating to
>Climate Care. The latest wheeze of this
>carbon-offsetting company is to provide "treadle
>pumps" to poor rural families in India so that they
>can get water on to their land without having to use
>polluting diesel power. Made from bamboo, plastic and
>steel, the treadle pumps work like "step machines in a
>gym," according to some reports, where poor family
>members step on the pedals for hours in order to draw
>up groundwater which is used to irrigate farmland.
>These pumps were abolished in British prisons a
>century ago. It seems that what was considered an
>unacceptable form of punishment for British criminals
>in the past is looked upon as a positive
>eco-alternative to machinery for Indian peasants
>today.
>
>What might once have been referred to as
>"back-breaking labour" is now spun as "human energy."
>
>What's more, this is all done so that Cameron can
>avoid making changes in his own lifestyle, which we
>are supposed to believe is destroying the planet.
>Global-warmism is not just some harmless enthusiasm;
>it can be despicable and inhuman.
>
>
>From Best of the Web, found in the Opinion Journal
>section of yesterday's Wall Street Journal.

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