Conservative Group Plans to Waste Tons of Energy on ‘Carbon Belch Day’
May 29, 2008 · Print This Article
Oooh, sometimes you hear a bit of news that makes you feel like you’re bordering on a killing spree fueled by murderous rage. This is one of those stories. Conservative grassroots organization Grassfire.org is calling for people to waste as much energy as possible on June 12th, telling people to do things like “hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars”.
Information Week has it:
The point: the group wants to “help Americans break free from the ‘carbon footprint guilt’ being imposed by Climate Alarmists.”
Grassfire.org says it’s skeptical over claims that man-made sources of carbon dioxide emissions — from automobile exhausts to manufacturing plants — are raising the Earth’s temperature at a dangerous rate. Theories about global warming were highlighted by former Vice President Al Gore’s 2006 film, An Inconvenient Truth.
Grassfire.org president Steve Elliott, in a statement, said such theories are off the mark. “It’s time for Americans to purge ourselves of the false guilt that Al Gore and the Climate Alarmists have placed on us,” Elliott said.
Grassfire.org said it chose June 12 as the day it wants Americans to rev up their SUVs because it coincides with expected debate in Congress over a $1.2 billion carbon tax rebate program. “Carbon Belch Day will have at least as much impact on the so-called ‘planetary emergency’ of man-made global warming as the goofy save the earth mandates telling us to turn our lights off for an hour,” said Elliott.
If this sounds like an April Fool’s Day joke, check your calendar. It’s for real. There are actually douche nozzles like this out there in the world. These people really don’t get it – they’re living in a state of denial. No doubt, they’re part of the camp that thinks those of us who care about the planet we all live on and depend upon for survival are just trying to rob them of ‘the American way of life’. Because apparently, being an American means being a total self-absorbed asshole.
That’s right, conservative douchebags: watch out, we’re coming for you and your Norman Rockwell America. The one that exists SOLELY INSIDE YOUR OWN HEADS. We are bringing you reality, like it or not. Scratch that, you’re bringing it upon yourself with idiotic moves like Carbon Belch Day. Maybe you’ll be lucky and die before we start to see the real effects of how our wasteful lifestyle has harmed the planet, but your kids and grandkids may not be so lucky. So go on being selfish – it’s only the entire world at stake.
Link [Information Week]
Photo credit: Grassfire.org
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This is fantastic.
Why participate in Carbon Belch?
“Because energy is the fuel of human progress and man is not the “bad guy”…”
So, does solar energy count? Because in that case, yeah. Go human progress!
“Because the real “planetary emergency” is the coming $1.2 Carbon Tax…”
Oh, the tax effects the entire planet? I can think of a few species who are going to be so pissed!
Quotes from http://www.carbonbelchday.com
What assholes. I can’t believe people like this exsist - with the high price of gas, the economy struggling, and the glaciers melting. There are people in the world who are starving, and it has nothing to do with making everyone feel “guilt” but with the compassion to be responsible and concerned enough to take action. This “carbon belch” attitude is so ignorant it’s sick.
WTF? Steph, this is going to get a link to my blog, cause I have to share this. I would love to say that everybody agrees that these people are dumbasses, but sadly, there more that don’t believe that the quality of life for future generations is at stake. I shudder at the ignorance of society and the ones who will believe everything you tell them, just as long as the person telling them has charisma.
I know that they exist due to a run in with a man two weeks ago that told me that he wasn’t worried, that oil prices were so high because the Middle East was gouging us and that we would never run out because it continuously replicated. Oh, and that environmentalists were just telling us all of this to make more money. The last time I checked, I made no money, but sure as shit poured of lot of my own cash into my causes in the form of donations, transportation expenses, etc.
I am just going to sit here and shake my head for a few moments, then collect my thoughts and write….and it will be to more than my blog. I see all sorts of crap coming down the pipe today–I think I shall use of my husbands fave phrases “let’s give them a shit sandwich on a silver platter!”
This is a really sad attempt to get media attention. I bet Rush Limbaugh is encouraging people to do this right now.
When I see this I think mostly about the hypocrisy of the right. Think about this for a minute. The whole Iraq war reasoning was: Saddam has weapons, we think. We aren’t 100% sure, but there is TOO MUCH RISK to wait to be 100% sure. “We don’t want the proof to be a mushroom cloud.”
Now think about climate change. Do we want the proof to be all of us dead? How can they make this case — that there is simply too much at stake to wait — about Iraq and then dismiss the same logic when it comes to climate change? When did the planet become a partisan issue?
Good point, Michael. That’s so true.
Awesome use of Picnik, if that’s where this came from.
As part of our research on the BBC Bloom website (a new BBC website dedicated to climate change) we figured that it was best to ignore the impending doom and make climate change relevant and “human-sized” …has anyone found anything that conflicts with this. I’d be interested to hear any developments. In the meantime check out the website….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bloom/