The other week I was blogging about
George, if you recall. George the economist.

I promised to come back to one of the very interesting points George made with respect to the global warming mumbo-jumbo and what it means for developing nations. Bangladesh, for example.

Have been waiting for a nifty lead-in but in all this time the best I can do is that No Right Turn and ACT On Campus have just done respective little environmental jigs. One is praising Michael Chrichton and the other is bemoaning the fact that the Gov isn't doing more to respond to climate change- take a wild guess for yourselves which blog is saying which!

So here's a new (for me) debating point from George Reisman. If we in developed nations already have more carbon emission than the planet can afford then not only must we cut back but those in developing nations better stay right where they are.

No economic progress for you Mr Nguyen- who keels over from a deadly infection for want of the price of a swab of Dettol! Try and understand sir, we might maybe could perhaps turn the planet into Keven Costner's Waterworld if we let you live.

"Please sir, may I have some more?" says a starving little Oliver Singh in back-water India. NO you brat! The Greenies wont let you! For an economy with that kind of standard of living we'd have to permit your nation to have a decent transport network and we 'friends of the earth' can't let you. Already too too much of that in the world now! How do we know we're not on a "tipping point" to another ice age? Your hunger might save the world- so starve!

Sorry Mohammed, you can't have literacy and safe-sex because that kind of standard of living is traded off in favour of saving us from a possible nuclear winter. Will your sacrifice prevent one? Well, we don't have a clue actually- so let's just stay on the safe side shall we? Continue living and dieing in filth therefore, okay? Jolly good.

Remember, the Greenies don't actually claim the world is heading for doom. When cornered, they only say that it might be and that we'd better not risk the unknown possibilities.

Hell, it's bad enough to consider that the "environmentalists" (I don't accept that you have to be a Greenie to be one) want to clip the flight wings of the West! But the Greenie agenda is seen even more truely as the horrific proposal that it is in this light. They want to ground developing nations before they've even gotten off the ground, and all on a hunch!