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Leftists Plan to Reduce Global Warming by Lowering American Living Standards

gmallast Wrote: Feb 06, 2013 7:09 AM

Good morning! This is not precisely news. Refer to Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Affluent Society (1957) and the original "the Environmental Handbook" (1970). Look, for that matter at George Orewell's "1984" (1949). The goal is control. Using poverty as a means of suppression and control has been recognized for a long time. These are people who viscerally hate freedom. "Capitalism" is just another name for "Liberty." Barack Obama wants to be Fidel Castro.

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Leftists Plan to Reduce Global Warming by Lowering American Living Standards

Regular readers may remember last year when I shared some remarkably silly data from the “Happy Planet Index,” which supposedly showed the United States ranked below very poor nations such as Cuba, Albania, and Venezuela.

It turns out that nations got lower grades based on their energy consumption. And since energy usage is one of the key indicators of prosperity, that explains why the United States also trailed such global garden spots as Pakistan, Palestine, Iraq, Moldova, and Tajikistan.

Well, the authors of the Happy Planet Index are not the only ones who explicitly embrace stagnation and decline as a...

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