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Eco-person Richard Ladle ain’t happy about the effect of blogs on the spread of environmentalist propaganda:
This transition from individuals consuming their environmental news from traditional sources such as newspapers and television to selecting their news from the “electronic buffet” of the internet could have profound implications for the environmental movement ...
If we don’t respond quickly we run the risk of creating a generation of eco-illiterate consumers and voters at a crucial time for the Earth’s diminishing resources.
It’s a crucial time! Assist by driving a speedy $200,000 Gurkha to your nearest newspaper office loaded with tons of environmentaloid reportage. Stop eco-illiteracy!
The first paragraph in the bit quoted above gives the whole game away. Gotta have trustworthy gatekeepers to keep the proles from, y’know, actually thinking about the issue, as opposed to just consuming their daily ration of environmental beenie-weenie.
I like the Gurkha; but is it immune to attack from Israeli rust bombs?
consuming their environmental news from traditional sources
being fed the party line of the ruling, lefty elite
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 08 28 at 12:35 PM • permalinkI guess that depends if you pay extra for the rust proofing Paco.
Still wont stop a (real) Hellfire though…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 28 at 12:37 PM • permalinkStill wont stop a (real) Hellfire though…
Well, to tell the truth, I was just thinking of getting one for those occasions when I absolutely have to brave Beltway traffic around Washington, so I really wouldn’t have to worry about missiles (unless the Democrats take over again, that is). In fact, Paco Consumer Defense Industries is currently working on the development of a “traffic torpedo” for people, like myself, who refuse to be slowed down by bumper-to-bumper congestion.
Your ‘traffic torpedo’ concept has serious merit Paco, but can it be fitted to any vehicle, or just armoured cars?
Then again in an 8 ton armoured car, your not going to really need it very often. You can just drive right the hell over that old woman in her volvo…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 28 at 12:55 PM • permalinkExcellent, I was somewhat concerned it would not fit under the front spoiler of my bogan wagon.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 28 at 01:27 PM • permalinkGod forbid any of us should get our news, environmental or otherwise, from sources outside the “traditional”. Honestly, do these twits never hear themselves?
Also, it’s bad enough when I’m sitting in my pickup and I can’t see around the big ugly box of a Hummer in front of me, but now they’re going to put an honest-to-God war wagon on the road? Frack!
I’d bet the assets of Paco Industries (and subsidiaries) that the enviros aren’t the only ones complaining that the proles aren’t properly humble and ignorant. It reminds me of the complaints of the powers over that damnable Gutenberg printing every little thing that somebody had the audacity to think about.
I wonder if this guy properly blames Gore, who, after all, invented that whole world-wide information superhighway interweb that is causing all his trouble.
Do these people ever hear themselves? Nah. Idiots.
The Gurkha can go more than 150 kilometres per hour — plenty fast for a military vehicle — and is the highest level of protection you can get next to sitting in a tank, Whyte says. It certainly looks fierce enough.
The squat 8,620 kilogram vehicle looks every bit the ticked-off hedgehog, bristling with testosterone and armour plating.
DINSDALE!
(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 08 28 at 03:30 PM • permalinkLemme see if I get this:
If we don’t respond quickly we run the risk of creating a generation of eco-illiterate consumers and voters at a crucial time for the Earth’s diminishing resources.
“Consumers” obtaining information from multiple sources outside the self-appointed “guardians of all that we plebes need to know” = illiterate.
M-kay.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 08 28 at 03:33 PM • permalinkI’ve forgotten what the crisis is supposed to be.
That’s the trouble with multiple sources, especially if you only go there to ridicule them.
Back when we had gatekeepers, there was no ridicule, and you could focus on how the news these days is going downhill.
I myself took to collecting amusing compound nouns, like gatekeeper and wrongdoing and whistleblower, that you heard only on the news.
Hey! Buy Australian!
(great visibility too!)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 28 at 05:08 PM • permalinkWeblogs could also be used to inspire the next generation of environmentalists. For instance, blogging is the perfect way for field biologists and conservationists to communicate the soap opera quality of working and living in the field.
So what the heck goes on out there in the field? Are we talking clandestine affairs, love triangles, multiple marriages/divorces/remarriages, babies switched or separated at birth, people coming back from the dead with different faces, brothers and sisters who inadvertently marry because of the aforementioned separation at birth, mysterious strangers, strange disappearances and reappearances, scheming villians, resident bitch queens, evil twins, amnesia? Because if we are, I guess I’ll have to rethink my notion of environmentalists as a rather dull and tedious lot.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 28 at 06:33 PM • permalinkAh, environmentalist field work. That’s where special people tromp around in the wilderness, enjoy the wonderfulness of it all, and study animals that no one else is allowed to disturb.
It’s all about control. Control who gets to see critters in their natural habitats. Control the information that folks are allowed to hear. Control the outcome.
But it’s for a good cause.
Only yesterday, my lefty sister took our dear and wonderful dad to the “traditional” “Inconvenient Whatever” movie, at a theater not near me but 5557 miles (8942 km) away from me and there was nothing I could do to stop it. Except to say, later on the phone, “Daddy, she’s gonna turn you into a wacko.” Which was more humor than he had heard since and during the gloomy Gore-ing.
Hey paco, I’ve been watching “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” a lot lately, trying to reverse engineer that car. Is the prototype still at Area 51?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 08 28 at 07:35 PM • permalink#7- Bugger trying to develop a traffic torpedo, it’s already been done.
BTW- does this mean that we dumb yokels aren’t just getting our information from Greenpeace shills such as Four Corners?
For shame- they went to a lot of effort, plugging Al Gore’s idiot fillum, ignoring any facts that disagreed with their predetermined polemic and blaming john Howard for drowning South Pacific orphans.
Even grinning idiot Qld Premier Peter Beattie agreed with the PM that the whole thing is an unproven hypothesis based on limited data, but will spend a shitload of our money on daffy green power schemes anyway; NSW has one of the best scams around going with its carbon abatement scheme- former Greenpeace toads are getting fat as mud on state government slings by hanging around shopping centres handing out lightbulbs and shower nozzles, and planting trees which cockies plant for free; I wonder how many mates of Morrie are involved in this nice little earner? NSW- it’s never really evolved from the days when it was run by the Rum Corps.
Meanwhile, the ABC, Greenpeace and their fellow doom merchants fade further into irrelevance as punters get on with their lives, realising the sky hasn’t gone into a terminal stall just yet.
Malcolm McLaren said it best:- ” There’s cash in chaos”.
19. You touched nerve Synova. I was a military loggie in the service of the US National Science Foundation in Antarctica. As big a bunch of elitist lefty snobs as you’d ever want to meet, (with some honorable exceptions). By and large considered Antarctica their private (publicly funded) eco-playground, and went to great lengths to keep the proles from enjoying same. They were absolutely incensed when private eco-tour ships began to intrude on their personal space some years ago.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 08 28 at 09:41 PM • permalinkTips on how to spot low credibility information, from the article:
Take note of the language - arguments couched in hyperbolic language may be masking a lack of understanding or sound information
Wait a minute—that sounds like some environmentalist rantings I’ve heard recently… What was it? Something about Inconvenient Truth.
Weren’t enviros giving algore a free pass a short while ago for using hyperbole because the urgency of the cause justified it?
What is worse is when a supposedly conservative Government starts piddling cash up the wall.
Unless of course this is the real reason for spending our cash.
If we don’t respond quickly we run the risk of creating a generation of eco-illiterate consumers and voters at a crucial time for the Earth’s diminishing resources.
In my (professional) experience, it’s the enviromentalists (and the environmental bureaucrats) that are illiterate. In particular, they know nothing about science, statistics or economics.
It’s rather interesting when we ask them for evidence or proof to justify their claims.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 08 28 at 11:02 PM • permalinkpyreal
Wait a minute—that sounds like some environmentalist rantings I’ve heard recently… What was it? Something about Inconvenient Truth.
Weren’t enviros giving algore a free pass a short while ago for using hyperbole because the urgency of the cause justified it?
A trifle more “truthiness” than he intended, eh?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 08 28 at 11:05 PM • permalinkBut, rinardman, it’s an extremely good pickle.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 08 28 at 11:25 PM • permalinkRichard Ladle ought to start a blog, and then we can teach him a thing or two about fact-checking environmental claims. He may swoon, but it would be fun.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 29 at 12:01 AM • permalink#26, $3.2million to get 100 parrots gonorrhea free? I spose Paco has the contract too…
“If these infections are cleared up, there will be no orange bellies and therefore no Orange-Bellied Parrot,” Senator Nettle said, while wearing a ‘Get your Paraphernalia off their Genitalia’ T shirt.
Shirley you cant be serious.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 29 at 12:18 AM • permalinkHabib, I had 4 Cornices (love taht) on in the background last night, and had to laugh at the carbon buyback crap going on in NSW. Watersaving shower? Spare me. We’ve now got WELS to cover all that crap, and even then, watersaving showers have been big for a couple of decades now.
Easily 90% of shower heads these days come with built in flow restrictors to bring the rate down to 15 lpm or under.
Whenever I see crap about Kyoto and carbon emissions on the teev, I just want to go out and buy all the largest carbon emitting appliances I can find. I don’t mind being responsible ecologically. I do mind getting preached at.
I go to church for that.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 29 at 12:50 AM • permalink#32, thats why I called you Shirley :P
Dont forget folks, Im smarter than the average bogan.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 29 at 12:58 AM • permalinkI am interested in this traffic torpedo and wish to learn more.
Posted by attilathepun on 2006 08 29 at 01:13 AM • permalink#33, not only do the governments have WELS to limit your water use, but they also have a bunch of policies designed to limit which appliances you can and can’t buy.
Basically they pick an appliance (eg, washing machine), select almost the most energy efficient model and tell manufacturers that in roughly two years time, every product that is less efficient is banned.
It’s a great scam. They push cheap appliances (principally those made in China and Korea) out of the marketplace and lessen competition and boost sales for the larger manufacturers. All this results in poor people not being able to afford ‘luxuries’ like airconditioners anymore.
Greenies don’t give a crap about the poor.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 08 29 at 08:24 AM • permalinkDon’t know if you’ll see this, Art, but the latest handy things around the house to be outlawed are powerboards. Not sure about the double adaptors for you electrical goodies, but definitely the boards with multiple sockets.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 29 at 05:43 PM • permalinkNilknarf (or is it Arbed?), what do you mean by “things around the house to be outlawed?” Do you actually have officially constituted busybodies and scolds who can enter your home and confiscate proscribed appliances?
Jeez, no wonder they took away all your guns.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 08 29 at 07:28 PM • permalinkPretty much, Steve.
If you are on benefits here, the questions that are asked are grossly offensive, and if you are single, as I am, and they (Centrelink) think you are living in a relationship with someone, they are legally allowed to enter your home, go through you closet to check out if some bloke is hanging his jacket up there.
The privacy of the individual and their right to it are jokes here.
Watersaving showers are a small example. We are going to go green whether we like it or not.
If the idiot pollies have their way.
Just not in my house. :)
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 29 at 09:35 PM • permalinkIm so used to a water saving shower head these days, it feels wierd to me if I get into a normal shower.
It almost feels like Im standing up in a bath…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 29 at 10:09 PM • permalink#39, and that’s not all. See:
Products Being Considered for Regulation
It’s scary!
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 08 30 at 08:27 AM • permalink
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