An columnist in a prominent Australian newspaper calls for tattooing global warming deniers- you know, so we can keep track of them or something. Or we could just kill them.
Richard Glover writes in the Sydney Morning Herald:
Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.
Not necessarily on the forehead; I’m a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, ”Really? You were one of the ones who tried to stop the world doing something? And why exactly was that, granddad?”
Hey, tattooing the arms of enemies? Hmmm…doesn’t that ring some bells?
But the writer even admits that his suggestion is a little “Nazi creepy” but darn it he thinks global warming deniers might just deserve a tattoo or at least be forced to relocated from their home and left to die.
So how about they are forced to buy property on low-lying islands, the sort of property that will become worthless with a few more centimetres of ocean rise, so they are bankrupted by their own bloody-mindedness? Or what about their signed agreement to stand, in the year 2040, lashed to a pole at a certain point in the shallows off Manly? If they are right and the world is cooling – ”climate change stopped in the year 1998” is one of their more boneheaded beliefs – their mouths will be above water. If not …
You know, if I didn’t know any better I’d start wondering if wacko environmentalists didn’t love the Earth more than they like people.
June 6, 2011 at 12:29 pm
His punishment of living near the rising waters is like a confused version of "The Super," where, instead of the landlord having to live in his rundown tenement, all those who wonder if government control of housing shouldn't be more limited have to live in the most rundown and unsanitary buildings. It is of course just another example of the illiberal attitude of our international slave culture. And tattoos are evil, so no surprise a maniac thinks it humorous to force them on people.
June 6, 2011 at 1:19 pm
No nut like an environmental nut.
June 6, 2011 at 2:45 pm
I'd agree to Mr. Glover's proposal on two conditions:
(1) HE has to implement it personally; and
(2) He has to start in Texas.
I'm afraid Mr. Glover would be shocked to learn that citizens who haven't been disarmed the way the Australians have, aren't quite so docile in the face of such fascistic policy prescriptions.
June 6, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Environmentalists scare me. They're not only nuts, they're vicious.
June 6, 2011 at 4:17 pm
How about instead HE tattoos himself with a "I believe that I can control the world." Or just "Climate Change Believer" (means the same thing).
"Climate change stopped in 1998?" What "denier" says that? Most "deniers" I know say that climate change ALWAYS happens. If climate change stopped happening we would be on Mars.
What most "deniers" object to is the idea that WE are CAUSING the Earth to turn into Pluto (1970s), Venus (1990s) or, um… something scary where we get storms, changing sea levels, adjustments in land areas where we can live…because our environment should remain static and never, ever change and if it does it's OUR fault.
June 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Too bad the eco-fanatics do not care about the protection of human life with the same enthusiasm they reserve for the Earth and The Climate. Clearly if he is willing to brand people as a punishment he hasn't heard the message about how to attempt a civilized society. Interestingly the Bishop where I am in his evangelization video "Amazing God" quotes a spiritual writer who says that in effect God has tattooed us all with His love when we are conceived as human beings in the womb, right from the start of our existence. Someone should tell this environmentalist that about the tatoos, God has beaten him to it and it shows that human beings are worthy of protection from conception, must be shielded from acts of cruelty in the womb. It doesn't mean, "protect the earth first and foremost and to heck with its inhabitants". Excuse me, her inhabitants, I always forget the preferred nomenclature for the Earth by her followers…
June 7, 2011 at 3:17 am
If you read the actual article, he bashes the other side of the equation equally:
"Not that the other side isn't frustrating. There's a type of green zealot who appears to relish climate change. Every rise in sea levels is noted excitedly. Every cyclone is applauded and claimed as a noisy, deadly witness for their side.
Suddenly, it's as if they have the planet's assistance in their lifelong campaign to bully everyone else into accepting their view of the perfect world. One without any human beings. Except for them. Living in a cave. Wearing an unwashed T-shirt that not only says ''Support wildlife'' but actually does."