Carbon Debits!

You know something?

I have been an environmentalist for years. I have always believed in preserving wilderness, keeping crap out of rivers, going easy on the hunting of genuinely endangered species, removing Mormon dams, etc. Part of my loathing of Mormonism has to do with their views on Western water policy (not to mention the coffee, tobacco, and alcohol thing, and the paganism, the pyramid scheme cosmology, the mind-numbingly poorly written frauds of The Book of Mormon and it's rip-roaringly funny sequel, Pearl of Great Price. And their generally ghastly aesthetics).

The reason to do these things is that it ultimately makes the Earth a better place for people to live on and to use. You preserve endangered game species so that your grandchildren can hunt them. If that notion sounds shocking, well, to Hell with you then. There are compassionate folks who would say, "well, geez, I will pray for you," but I am not a compassionate folk. I am a Volk, but the extent of my compassion is that I will tell you that you are an idiot, in order to help you get out of idiocy.

We don't preserve nature for the sake of nature. That is stupid on many levels. We preserv nature for its salutary benefits on society. We want our teenagers to experience beautiful wilderness. We shouldn't give two flips over wilderness that is so remote and has a climate so hostile that it will only be enjoyed by the savages who aren't smart enough to leave it and the super wealthy who fly up there to show the world how much they care about nature.

So, increasingly, I have become more and more hostile to the mainstream environmentalists. They are pagan turds and double dip their membership with the secular neo-puritans, who I would send off to detention centers in a second.

Senator Gore's son, the former Vice President, is one of those idiot Boomers that I have a deep loathing for, and have since before he was even Veep. This Cabron Credits ($1K for each inch of horn?) business is about the height of Gaia idiocy (yet it will get worse. It always does).

So, imagine my delight when I discovered this via Kathy Shaidle! I have already wanted a shirt that says, "I am increasing my carbon footprint!" These folks might be rednecks, but they are my kind of redneck.