Occupy Protester: Humanity’s “Existence Is Bad For the Planet”

An Occupy Orange County protester decries mankind’s existence: “Our very existence is bad for the planet.”  “Another protester told Epstein that human beings are parasites,” adding that “if you take humanity off this planet, the planet would explode with prosperity.”

In May, a group of Nobel laureates gathered to put humanity on trial, to adjudicate whether humanity had breached its relations with the planet.  Representing “the planet,” was none other than Obama science and technology advisor Mario Molina, a 1995 Nobel prize winner.

Delegates to a U.N. Climate change conference signed a petition to ban water, which the petition referred to using an obvious chemical name for water that anyone who has studied science or taken a chemistry course would logically recognize (as “dihydrogen monoxide,” noting that it can corrode rock or metal over time).

The Washington Post gave a thumbs-down to the billions of dollars dumped into electric vehicles by the Obama Administration, noting that these electric vehicles are not a “solution to America’s dependence on foreign oil, or to global warming, in the near future. They simply pose too many issues of price and practicality to attract a large segment of the car-buying public. More prosaic fuel-economy innovations such as conventional hybrids, clean-diesel cars and advanced gasoline engines all show much more promise than electrics.”  It also noted that subsidies for electric vehicles are “trickle-down economics” that benefit a few wealthy public at the expense of taxpayers.

The Post also criticized the ethanol subsidies backed by the Obama Administration, noting that a recently-expired ethanol tax credit “badly distorted the global grain market, artificially raised the cost of agricultural land and did almost nothing to curb greenhouse gas emissions. A federal law requiring the use of 36 billion gallons of ethanol for fuel by 2022 still props up the industry, but the tax credit’s expiration is a victory for common sense just the same.”  The Obama Administration supports ethanol subsidies, even though such subsidies have a history of  spawning famines and food riots overseas. The administration has forced up the ethanol content of gasoline through EPA regulations, even though ethanol production results in deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution.  Back in 2008, leading environmentalists lamented the devastating impact of ethanol subsidies on the global environment and the world’s poor in the Washington Post. They noted that thanks to ethanol, “deadly food riots” had already “broken out in dozens of nations,” such as “Haiti and Egypt.”

Green-jobs subsidies from the $800 billion stimulus package were used to outsource American jobs to China.  The stimulus package, which the Congressional Budget Office now says will actually shrink the economy in the long run, also contained other provisions that wiped out more jobs in America’s export sector and aggravated America’s trade deficit.

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