Revisiting “The Planet Is Fine” by George Carlin, 1992 (More Disingenuous Than Ever)

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This convoluted, deceptive comedy rant by a non-scientist keeps showing up in reposts by the same anti-environmentalists who saw it as “Gotcha, libtards!” gospel when it first appeared in 1992 on “Jammin’ in New York.” It seems his goal was to shame limousine liberals and supposedly hypocritical environmentalists who “worry” too much about Man’s ongoing destruction of nature. But he never actually explained why such things aren’t worth major concern, except to those who barely respect nature unless they can take thing$ from it. He also used casual, blatant lies.

One of this oft-quoted comedian’s worst segments was about animal species extinctions:

“Let me tell you about endangered species, alright? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It is arrogant meddling; it’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that? Interfering with nature. Over 90% – over, way over – 90% of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone! They’re extinct! We didn’t kill them all; they just disappeared. That’s what nature does. They disappear these days at the rate of 25 a day; and I mean regardless of our behavior. Irrespective of how we act on this planet, 25 species that were here today will be gone tomorrow. Let them go gracefully. Leave nature alone. Haven’t we done enough?”

The bulk of that rant is a strange circular argument. He claimed it’s “arrogant” to try to save species but omitted how many species Man has endangered or wiped out relative to what nature would have spared in our absence. Why did he say “interfering” and “meddling,” as if humans are mere observers of nature, not pillagers with a moral obligation to mitigate damage? Those words would apply to things like stopping wolves from killing elk (done by self-serving hunters) or trying to rescue a cute baby elephant with a birth defect, thwarting natural selection. To further serve his skewed argument, he lied-by-omission about the main cause of modern extinctions. His “25 a day” figure is exponentially higher than the current consensus of roughly 5-10 species per year that go extinct naturally, so “25 a day” (if accurate back then) must have included human impact! How can it be arrogant to try to prevent extinctions we’re clearly causing?

Was he just terribly ignorant of biology? He framed his angle as us simply leaving nature alone but had the context backwards. How could he not see the growing scale of human impact, given his years of touring across North America? Nature is beset by constant human population growth and can’t recover when resource-grabs never slow down or stabilize (ZPG). The human footprint has grown considerably since 1992, with “clean energy” sprawl and data centers abetting damage from logging, mining, drilling, road & housing construction, factory expansion, water-diversion, etc.

Carlin said “…environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet…,” which received jeers, so he qualified that with an obtuse comeback, “…not in the abstract they don’t…” Did he ever read Rachel Carson, John Muir, Aldo Leopold or Arne Næss, among many others? It seems he got most of his outlook from TV shows that never covered deep ecology, or just didn’t care to look any deeper. Again, he ignored the overt damage Man has caused just to keep his edgy spiel on track. Note: If he’d done this 10+ years later when “clean, green” energy sprawl invaded global landscapes, he’d have a solid target for hypocrisy.

Carlin’s wider case for not taking environmental issues too seriously was that Man can’t physically destroy the WHOLE planet (down through bedrock), thus it will recover in some form when we’re gone as a species. Possibly even recover from a nuclear winter scenario. But anyone who gives a damn today is stuck living amid new and slow-healing historical damage. His attitude was like saying if you have a bad case of skin cancer, you’re doing fine unless your internal organs are failing. The skin of the Earth is in very bad shape compared to pre-industrial times.

Unfortunately, the size of the Earth makes the absurdity of his spin hard to convey to some people. Everyone can’t see global environmental carnage in person, so unless they live near a trashed area (not in a city per se), many will tune it all out, especially since so much daily work depends on pilfering nature. Apathy prevails.

Whatever Carlin’s full motive was, this routine feeds classic right-wing greed, which is why soulless resource-grabbers keep reposting it to “debunk” what biologists and other scientists have learned. All subtle aspects are lost to the words “PLANET is FINE,” which rhymes with “hide the decline” in tiny rube minds. You frequently see it framed as George Carlin versus climate change “hysteria” or “alarmism,” which he never mentions in this monologue. Given his known misanthropy, it’s odd that he’d allow the impression that he doesn’t care about human impacts. In other “Jammin’….” segments, he darkly celebrates bad things happening to people, so what gives?

Carlin was a New York City dweller; a place so built-up that its natural history is smothered, except for manicured Central Park and other scattered remnants of woods. When discussing urban problems, would he tell New Yorkers they worry too much about idling trucks & diesel fumes, local sewage spills, apartments with asbestos (he trivialized that very thing), or muggings and carjackings, saying Relax, the city is fine; you’ll all die someday and none of it will matter? Broader crimes against nature are feeding cities’ very existence, so he should have fully researched this topic instead of twisting it for theatrical value.

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Paul Ehrlich Was Wrong About Timing, Not Nature’s Physical Limits vs. Growth Addiction

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“The majority of economists have never been taught that ecosystems provide humanity with an absolutely indispensable array of services, services that are “free,” but would, of course, be infinitely costly to replace.” – The Population Explosion, 1990

It was sad to learn that population biologist Paul Ehrlich died on Friday the 13th in March, 2026, though that’s a fitting day for a “doomer” to exit this troubled world. And it was predictable to see cornucopian imbeciles (a word he used) dismissing his entire body of work, as if all he ever accomplished was worst-case predictions at the height of his fame. When speaking to laymen audiences he resorted to blunt themes, e.g. the Johnny Carson show, but his writings contained a lot of nuance (see Stanford-based articles). Most critics have likely not read his work in much depth, if at all. They see him as ‘that depopulation guy that Alex (Sandy Hook denier) Jones hated.’ Throw in some Bill Gates misquotes and it’s a wrap.

After Ehrlich’s death, hit pieces trivialized his logical math of carrying-capacity overload while harping on specific timing forecasts and dodging his physical limits philosophy, yet these types don’t argue with limiting government budgets. They just seek ruses to detach money from the physical world that makes money possible. Those who think “if a worst-case hasn’t happened yet it may never happen” are lousy planners in any context. If your car’s temperature gauge rises and you crest one hill without overheating, will your engine manage all future grades? Are traffic jams easing with more people jamming roadways? Can a beach or national park ever be too crowded? Why are food prices really rising? Those who laugh off such questions tend to think global warming is a hoax and Peak Oil may never really happen, though it’s closer than ever now. If anything will derail growthist fantasies, it’s unaffordable oil.

Headlines after Ehrlich’s death were predictable. It’s “anti-human” to live within nature’s limits, say growth addicts. Man’s impact on nature and chronic poverty mean nothing.

Wiser people see that Paul Ehrlich was only “wrong” in the sense that a smoker or druggie (overcrowding his system with toxins) luckily outlived one doctor’s dire prediction. The addict didn’t gain immortality by dodging that particular date! But millions of rubes and marketers can’t accept that a rock 7,926 miles in diameter, with economies grown by hydrocarbons & minerals from the crust-equivalent of an apple skin, will never support endless human numbers. Why not plan for what the math says is coming instead of always pushing the envelope?

Growthmaniacs (another Ehrlichism) lament necessary yet painful birthrate declines in modern nations, and try to normalize unnatural debt that demands endless young labor. We have to face fundamental math sooner or later, not just market gambles, as in the bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian (fuzzy fractal math) Simon. Do Ehrlich’s critics have any concept of the future and diminishing returns? Do they think today’s comforts & health gains are locked in by some innate warranty? Growing homelessness is a highly visible result of overpopulation and societal decline, but people tend to look away and count their own dollars.

Also, beware of environmental groups refusing to endorse population control because they presume it offends ethnicities with high birthrates. They pretend consumption at any income level is magically detached from population size. They assume poor people (of color) never feel overcrowded, desperately poach animals to sell exotic parts, eat endangered bush meat species, cut down tropical forests, defeat emissions controls via sloppy auto repairs, or pollute native rivers with feces or secondhand industrial waste. Everything’s about white oppressors, as if the poor & POC have no say in daily decision making. Founder John Muir (blackballed in 2020 for “racism” via presentism) would have doubly lamented today’s Sierra Club for becoming the SJW Club of endless POC growth, since only whites can possibly damage nature.

Quoting from https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra-club-and-population-issues: The Sierra Club rejects any and all policies, programs, and activities that promote or condone coercion or targets to reduce population. This includes policies and positions made in the name of preventing “overpopulation” by ideas and means that include, but are not limited to zero-growth, population stabilization, family planning as climate mitigation, or promoting women’s empowerment or girls’ education as an indirect means to limit population growth. (When environmental groups put “overpopulation” in quotes, they’re ignoring Ehrlich’s I = PAT equation and saving nature itself isn’t their top priority.)

Adequate time will confirm Ehrlich’s wisdom if today’s ecological destruction isn’t ample evidence that he’s always been right in principle. Anthropocentric money-grubbers just don’t care about nature itself, seeing it as a separate entity from human progress. You can never quite explain to them that nature was here before Man and the latter can’t exist without the former staying in balance. Glibness toward nature now includes “clean, green” excuses for sprawling “renewables” ruining what’s left of scenic landscapes & oceans.

The gist of Paul Ehrlich’s work was that Man can’t keep chewing up nature like termites eating a house. Many of his critics gladly call a dozen rogue wolves “overpopulated.”

Ehrlich was hardly alone in understanding Earth’s limits, just a famous name in books and TV when environmentalism gained serious traction. This was shortly before the EPA was mandated in 1970 by a Republican President. It took multiple pollution crises to inspire action back then, and ecologists have never been taken seriously by louts who treat nature like a materials warehouse built solely for Man. We now have dummies like Trump scaling back environmental laws that are taken for granted, though he’s at least willing to call wind turbines ugly, unlike neo-environmentalists who play the old growthism game under new branding.

People like Nate Hagens, Chris Martenson and Richard Heinberg are saying many of the same things Ehrlich did for decades, though wary of making timeline predictions, as Paul Ehrlich regretted in hindsight. The late Carl Sagan covered many of the same topics and was generally respected, though mocked for his pronunciation of “billions.” The work of scientists is often barely grasped by the dull-eyed masses unless they invent money-making gadgets or save lives with medical advances. Try to educate them on long term hazards and you’ll get called a doomsayer by shallow optimists. Ironically, many people enjoy watching & reading apocalyptic fiction, but show them real threats like AGW and you get smirking comments about “tax scams.” More than ever, we need unambiguous pundits urging sanity on human overpopulation and avarice.

R.I.P. Paul R. Ehrlich.

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CO2 Initiates “Less Warming” Contract (plus Trump’s “worthless fish”)

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Satire: The ancient atmospheric gas, CO2, recently got fed up with anti-conservation “conservatives” who claim it doesn’t trap excessive heat due to people burning formerly buried carbon 24/7, raising levels from 280 ppm to over 420 ppm now. Rube scholars insist that the species carving up vast tracts of land and polluting oceans could never alter the skies above, except for “them chemtrails.”

It looks like CO2 finally decided to assuage their ignorance by offering to change the very laws of physics! Who knew that gas molecules were even aware of Man’s existence, much less the bloated global economy? If thermodynamics isn’t actually rigid, what other cosmic shifts can we expect? Would this be Intelligent Design at work?

January 20, 2025 Attention Earth's human inhabitants: We, the CO2 molecules in your atmosphere, hereby declare that we'll try to curtail our triatomic vibrations that trap infrared heat. The year 2026 is a possible starting point but it won‘t be simple. We're trying this experiment because millions of self-described experts resent the short-term costs of trying to prevent further anthropogenic warming and its long-term (far costlier) impacts, which they ignore to get along with peers. These people resist external requests for personal restraint, like not buying oversized trucks they rarely haul cargo with, or using their heaters & air-conditioners frugally (R.I.P. Jimmy Carter). Simpleminded populist leaders tell them to squander finite oil and many other resources until the son of a deity returns, per the the ideology of James, as in Watt & Inhofe. We'll have to confer with the whole Universe to attempt this stunt, so be patient while we ask the ancient laws of physics to change. Be aware that this involves a Faustian bargain; the usual penalty for willful ignorance. Sincerely, CO2 (one carbon & two oxygen atoms)

If the physical laws of infrared absorption and re-emission magically change in 2026, will Trump & Co. admit that AGW was always real, since direct human blame would be lessened? Even if that supernatural event happens, there’s still the looming problem of Peak (shale) Oil, after which carbon emissions will decline automatically, but so will the global economy.

The above contract is fittingly dated for Donald Trump’s second inauguration day, preparing us for another stubborn round of global warming denial in America’s highest office (high intelligence optional). Before taking over, Trump ignored any connection between drought-desiccated chaparral, extreme Santa Ana winds and unstoppable flames in the Los Angeles area. Extreme loss of homes in the Palisades Fire made headlines but it had common roots with other recent, record fires. The firefighting effort was partly hampered by an offline reservoir & staff shortages, but DEI should stand for Dangerous Environmental Ignorance (of climate change), not just the Left promoting unqualified people.

As an ideological context-ignorer, Trump tried to blame a “worthless fish,” the distant delta smelt, often targeted when water in arid California is discussed by “conservative” resource gluttons. The excellent Cadillac Desert covers the context of California’s water history, which human overpopulation (not a nearly extinct fish) keeps straining. Anti-regulation zealots ignore how salt water intrudes into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem when too much fresh water is diverted to farms, or drought further reduces pushback into S.F. Bay estuaries (salinity maps). Excessive salt ruins soils and farming, so it’s mindless to frame this as only about fish, even if you’re evil enough to encourage extinctions.

Map of variable salinity in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This is a screen-capture from the link at lower right in image, circa 1981 but even more relevant as California's human population exceeds carrying-capacity.

Trump’s cash-slinging ally, Elon Musk, once seen as a climate-realist, also dismisses environmental concerns. He mocked routine studies to protect marine life from his rocket/space obsession, and doesn’t care that he’s ruining night skies & astronomy with Starlink satellites. He also creates large debris fields on Earth, e.g. the 1/17/25 Starship explosion with countless parts raining down. He’s also an overpopulation-denier, dwelling on falling birthrates in modern nations while ignoring total net gains and global demand for finite resources.

It’s all part of the GOP’s cavalier/Creationist attitude toward nature, but also seen in Democrats’ tribal support for “clean energy” landscape desecration, and using “social justice” to trivialize the population component of I = PAT. Wind & solar sprawl is often physically built by rural conservatives and welcomed for landowner royalties, if they aren’t bribed. No mainstream ideology is really defending nature’s balance at this point.

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Country Singer Accused of Racist Lyrics While Rap Music Celebrates Black Deaths

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Try That In A Small Town – by Jason Aldean

Fifty two years after Ten Years After took a dig at the “…freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies…” who tried to normalize depravity, a country singer took a tough stand against the American left’s sleazy, crime-coddling agenda disguised as “justice.” Predictably, wokesters called the song “racist” by overstating vague allusions to lynching. Their main angle with just about anything is the R-word, especially when called out on their evil riots.

This blog has covered the sickness of those people here, so this post is mostly about the hypocrisy of violent gangsta rap music, especially Drill Rap. You never see leftists boycotting that misogynistic, shallow garbage, so why are they fixated on Aldean?

Because he brashly told them what they really are. His lyrics dive right into the American crime wave unleashed by BLM over the death of a drugged-up home invasion robber in 2020, with subsequent trials biased by the threat of more riots.

Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk
Carjack an old lady at a red light
Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store
Ya think it’s cool, well, act a fool if ya like

Cuss out a cop, spit in his face
Stomp on the flag and light it up
Yeah, ya think you’re tough…

The song mentions guns, but firearms (often illegal) have been a centerpiece of gangsta rap songs for decades, contributing to the cycle of black urban crime. Aldean’s use of the term “round up” is open to interpretation but it mostly looks like a defense plan if mobs of woke-emboldened thugs invade a peaceful town. They’d have every right to post snipers or whatever it takes, e.g. when fracking peaks and thugs run out of urban gas to steal.

Got a gun that my granddad gave me
They say one day they’re gonna round up
Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck…

Aside from mentioning “good ol’ boys,” that’s as “racist” or violent as his song gets, and keep in mind who started the recent, unprecedented U.S. crime wave. There’s nothing wrong with reacting to crime with a show of force, since that’s all dumb criminals really understand. The “brutal” police know this too well, and mainly try to avoid getting killed when they take out thugs.

Now, read these rap lyrics from a Chicago collaboration of Fly Boy Gang & Young X Dutchie (seemingly a crew of criminals who do music on the side).

My young niggas, they gon’ murder (They’ll murder)
Shoot (Shoot), kill (Kill)…

For real (For real), get killed (Get killed)
Shit real (Shit real) in the field (That field)
So don’t be fuckin’ ’round wit’ my monsters (My monsters)
Got big guns like Contras (Like Contras)…

And the following wickedness is from a 1992 rap song by Ice-T & Body Count, considered a staple of this rarely peaceful genre.

I got my twelve gauge sawed-off
I got my headlights turned off
I’m ’bout to bust some shots off
I’m ’bout to dust some cops off
I’m a cop killer, better you than me
Cop killer, fuck police brutality…

For decades, blacks have tried to mask their rampant crime by scapegoating police reactions to it and glorifying dangerous lifestyles. Mealy mouthed leftists see that as the result of racism (not basic bad character), so the excuses won’t end until enough blacks stop identifying with their worst element. Other races usually shun criminals in their midst, though some Hispanics wallow in gang adulation, which doesn’t improve their reputation.

In the UK, courts have successfully prosecuted black criminals using the very words they write or get inspired by, but once again, woke hypocrites claim they’re just misunderstood, even though rappers around the world are constantly involved in gun or knife deaths. What’s up with people who refuse to simply call criminals bad? Logically, they’re criminals themselves, or extremely naïve about the thug mindset, like those who rescue pit bulls and claim they’re harmless dogs.

Getting back to Jason Aldean’s track: Not only is it a satisfying dig at the left’s twisted love of criminals for racial reasons, it’s a very good tune, musically. Lots of energy, never dull. If it was only strong because of the lyrics, it may not have been noticed as much.

Note that Aldean could have been shot himself had he not been pulled offstage when a maniac started gunning down Las Vegas concert fans in 2017. The far-right and its support for the NRA is another aspect of American gun violence. They share a pseudo-patriotic brand of hypocrisy and detachment from crime victims. White gun zealots need to ditch their own identity politics (emotionally dependent on firearms) and grow some moral character, just like ghetto blacks. Too many guns are in circulation and hoodlums end up getting their stash from thefts and straw purchases of legal guns. It all ties together, and “thoughts & prayers” are useless unless more people take a stand for lives vs. metal worship.

Aldean has also associated himself with Trump, which stains his overall moral character, but this song should stand alone as an anti-woke anthem, acknowledging the singer’s imperfections.

The left has been encouraging a wave of criminal mayhem in American cities for over three years and good people are sick of their smugness about “justified” crime. Wokeists push a combination of Critical Race Theory, bail reform and useless DAs, like the one recalled in S.F. who was literally raised by criminals. Someone had to call out this depravity in a succinct way that grabbed attention beyond standard news debates. Good work, Mr. Aldean!

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Why Black Lives Matter & Antifa are Pointless Causes

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Even in a feasible anarcho-communist society, criminals would still exist as part of human nature. Some of them would unavoidably die while resisting arrest, so you’re back at square one. Only a far more evolved species could manage perfect peace and altruism.

Graceland’s stone walls were vandalized with graffiti in Sep. 2020. Was this “justice” for specific black singers Elvis overshadowed? Notice who’s cleaning it up.

The net impact on America of the BLM/Antifa gestalt organism has been this:

  1. Heightened defensiveness and fear among the general public over cherry-picked exaggerations of every possible racist remark or transgression. It defines the word divisive because that’s its intent.
  2. Jobs are lost to virtue-signaling as fear spreads through corporations and makes their images a target. You can’t say anything even slightly off-color about anyone of color, or female.
  3. Whiny, masked cowards run around breaking other people’s property, claiming it “can be replaced,” whereas the lives of robbers, rapists and murderers are sacred if they brawl with police and lose. Antifa types are so deluded that if a black guy shoots them, they’ll blame The System. It couldn’t just be the thug’s violent temper.
  4. More general crime in woke-addled cities, typically affecting poor black people the most (irony lost). This is directly tied to police demoralization and early retirements. SJWs feign “compassion for all people” but won’t walk in a cop’s shoes or learn why arrest tactics usually save lives. Since Antifa knows street fighting dynamics, they should grasp why cops are forced to use knees, etc.

Thanks, BLM & Antifa (pragmatically Blacktifa), for spoiling America on top of Trump’s greed stain you sought to clean up. Your critical thinking skills are weak and, like broken windows, you’ve accomplished nothing of lasting value. Identity politics and victimhood end up empowering the lazy. Look at the setbacks you’ve dealt to true civil rights.

With roughly 100 million deaths, crime and famine aren’t bugs of your Marxist ideology, they’re features. Critical Race Theory has made melanin content more important than MLK’s content of character theme. “Police violence” (which you pretend happens in a vacuum) has become more newsworthy than brutal criminal violence. A number of you have relatives killed by G. Floyd types, but you still don’t get it. See this woke-prefaced 2021 Lancet study that claimed to find a conspiracy of hidden police killings by reinterpreting old data.

For any hope of a stable America, BLAMtifa needs to fade away by the time Biden leaves office. In his zeal to finally get elected, he went along with something he really doesn’t believe in.

Recommended black authors and speakers on this topic, since whites have lost the right to practice parrhesia.

Advice for people who hate the police:

If you don’t want to deal with cops, don’t be a slouchy, sullen, rude criminal, and don’t hang out with those types (people who claim to respect them often just fear them). Try to work with society, even though it’s got unsolvable problems. You’ll find that your skin color is less important than your behaviors and associations, though racism and conflict will never really end. All races are racist to some degree; mistrust of human differences is probably genetic. Just be the best representative of whatever ethnic group you’re in.

If you’re white, quit trying to fight other people’s battles, lay off the drugs (impractical visions), and don’t gripe about “the system” unless you have a workable alternative. Anarchy is lazy and useless. Also, anti-authority types on the trashy Right want to weaken environmental protections. The Left claims to be pro-environment but it supports litterers and vandals if they’re homeless or rioters. Those people just waste resources needed for cleanups and repairs. Stop and study what you’re actually doing, not just how righteous you feel.

P.S. Actually, there is one functional “purpose” to Black Lives Matter. Its M.O. of undermining police is an unintentional eugenics program affecting mostly lower class blacks. By thinning police ranks, BLM enables more violent black criminals (often low I.Q.) to kill each other & innocent bystanders in drive by shootings, etc. This partly controls numbers of the the least intelligent blacks. Whether that’s progress is open to interpretation.

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YouTube/Google Promotes Gratuitous Violence, Disrespect for Wildlife and Resource Waste

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Google’s Don’t Be Evil motto has become a long-running joke. They’ll grab view-counts and revenue from the lowest sources.

For all its useful how-to topics, reviews, interviews, music, movies and science documentaries, YouTube fails to enforce its own community guidelines on vile acts and gratuitous death. Nowhere is this more true than “hunting” videos or clips of pet dogs killing various species. Under the vague banner of survival skills or cultural education, YouTube has become an outlet for rural depravity and wildlife serial killers. Positive comments on these videos, like “nice shot!” or “the dogs got him!” reflect the crassness of the material. A typical I.Q.-85 response to negative comments is “if you don’t like it, don’t watch it.” The number of animals succumbing to gunfire far exceeds human-on-human mass shootings, including all wars combined.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kill+shot+compilation or https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dog+fights+raccoon

It’s clear that some animals are shot to death solely for making videos, and there’s an apparent rise in voyeuristic hunting licenses just for this purpose. They see other trashy trophy hunters killing for ego and want to add their own corpse piles. Some of these neo-hunters do emphasize ethics, but spread the false impression that wildlife could sustain large populations the “natural” way. They can’t see that urban residents would starve without dense livestock (and planted fields vs. gathering).

This directly describes many loosely-defined “hunting” videos and dog-sick-’em porn. When called on this, YT goes into lawyer-mode or says nothing.

There should be a separate site called SnuffTube for this so-called “recreational” or “educational” content. Trophy and “sport” hunting videos are often filled with slow-motion replays of bullet-strikes, mountain folk testing rifles at cruelly inaccurate distances, or pit bulls shaking rodents to death. Reckless gun-play videos merge into this category, showing yahoos out in the woods or desert “shootin’ stuff and blowin’ stuff up.” They tend to be the very people who ought not own firearms!

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gun+bullet+test or https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=50+caliber+vs

Most gun-play involves wasted target objects, like seeing how many pieces of X caliber Y can penetrate. There’s also a Pranks genre that wastes large volumes of resources, like covering mansions in toilet paper, filling swimming pools with bath bombs, or wasting oil with car stunts and emissions modifications. Vlogging families that record vapid daily routines merge with the prank category, since they tend to gin-up the action. Those videos could be moved to a site called GluttonTube. Many video-creators seem to be fairly wealthy from YouTube revenues and magnify environmental problems caused by disposable income. The whole scene feeds on itself.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pool+prank+gallons or https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pranks+gone+wrong

Borderline pornographic content is another common subject, though less technically offensive than weapons-related videos. Countless “yoga” sessions, best named as “hot yoga,” fall into the near-porn category. Women preen and show off under the ruse that it’s not entirely about sex. On or off YouTube, the “fitness model” craze rides on titillation and there’s no end to glossy asses and bathroom selfies. Too much easy exposure to sexual signals must be warping kids. Gone are the days of finding dad’s magazine stash.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hot+yoga+ass (it’s all about heath, eh?)

Despite all that, YouTube censors often find free speech more offensive than visually mature or evil content. For example, if you note that POC have a big crime problem but groups like Black Lives Matter try to blame their moral failings on police, the woke brigade may ban you for simply observing the world. This is a systemic problem on other social media sites, of course.

In a best case scenario, YouTube may slyly be allowing trashy videos to showcase the depravity of human nature in the hope that activists will control it, but that seems unlikely. It’s gone on far too long.

One solution could be YouTube eventually running out of server space (typically denied, like most limits on this planet) and being forced to delete millions of hours of junk footage. They could start today with anything that showcases death as entertainment.

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Wind Turbines Planned for Tsau Khaeb National Park in Africa

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Given adequate wind, would Americans accept huge bird-dicers on Half Dome, Hurricane Ridge, the Great Smoky Mountains, or the Grand Canyon rim?

In this latest bleak development, Big Wind will produce Big Hydrogen (plus ammonia) in remote Namibia and pretend it’s somehow sustainable. Invading a protected park is wrong on too many levels to lament at once. Energy visionaries, including Elon Musk, have explained that hydrogen is mostly a showy middleman for fossil fuels, especially when machines extracting it are fossil fuel based. It’s the same ruse as desalination “solving” water shortages by shifting energy from one place to another. Nothing is free when large industrial projects generate it.

This sort of project was inevitable, given the frivolous use of words like clean & green, and the growth agenda of the world’s biggest visual polluters. General ocean wind development is already morally shaky. When even national parks aren’t worthy of protecting from this machine army, what ecological values remain? Any other form of industrial blight on preserved lands would push today’s eco-posers to the boiling point. Think of ANWR oil drilling and other footprints they selectively complain about.

Remote places like the Tsaus mountains and local shores make easy targets for wind energy sprawl. These escarpments bear similarities to Oregon’s wind-targeted Steens Mountain.

The location under attack is Namibia’s Tsau Khaeb (Sperrgebiet) National Park, and though it’s a place few will visit, its mere existence was a bonus for nature. This won’t be too different from putting wind turbines on the rim of the Grand Canyon, which soulless American Green$ would approve of. You’ll hear the usual talk of “careful siting,” and the excuse that diamond mines (e.g. Kolmanskop) have marred the Sperrgebiet, but the aesthetics of giant wind turbines create a much bigger contrast with desert lands. Park scenery will clearly be lost to widely visible, spinning towers, topped with red lights. It’s about scale and what sticks out the most. Lack of tree canopies to mask distant views will make it even more obvious.

With this park’s coastal boundary, the look of the Philippines Bangui Bay wind project comes to mind. Blatant beach placement is an affront to everything conservationist once stood for. People can’t seem to fathom how many of these damned eyesores would actually be needed to (not) do much about global warming. They eagerly want to be on board with something “anti” fossil fuels, though it’s built entirely with that energy. Even if it wasn’t, it’s simply too invasive. Eco sellouts, raise your hands if you support exponentially more wind power growth. What did you ever stand for in terms of a scenery ethic? And don’t try to hide the birds, bats & insects killed by these blades!

California’s Manzana project and Bangui Bay, Philippines, reflect potential wind power development inside Tsau Khaeb National Park. 5 gigawatts is a target they mention.

The cold truth is that few natural places are sacred anymore. It only took the prospect of Man losing modern comforts to expose today’s tech-obsessed environmentalism. The big concern isn’t the planet aka nature, rather surviving AGW without too much pain. But you can’t grow your way out of something you willfully grew into.

Read more details on the oft-denied grimness of industrial wind energy: Windschmerz: The Wind Energy Landscape Holocaust and Industrial Wind Turbines and the Rationalized Desecration of Nature

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Woke Wind Energy: No Justice or Peace for Natural Scenery, Wildlife and Rural People

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“There are few people in this world I could dislike more than farmers and other country types who see the continuation of their quiet way of life as more important than the loud improvement, advancement, development of their society.” – Charles Mudede

Wind power zealotry is an ugly trend, and there’s more than one ideology behind its destructive path. If the above quote isn’t smug enough, the following paraphrased sentences aren’t exaggerated, either.

“F-CK THE POLICE! PROPERTY CAN BE REPLACED. RACIST CAPITALISM IS THE ONLY SOCIETAL PROBLEM. EQUITY & SOCIAL JUSTICE ARE ALL THAT MATTERS NOW.”

“F-CK OIL, GAS & COAL! SCENERY CAN BE REPLACED. FOSSIL FUELS ARE THE ONLY EXISTENTIAL THREAT. CO2 AND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE ALL THAT MATTERS NOW.”

As revealed in articles and forums, many wind power advocates favor “climate justice” that flips the bird at honest environmentalism and sanctions the killing of real birds & bats. This attitude replaces longstanding conservation principles and uses carbon-obsession as an anti-oppression wedge. Starting in the late 1990s and accelerating in the mid 2000s, the environmental land ethic was buried by carbon monomania, with new emotional blackmail added during the race-obsessed 2010s. Environmentalism has fully absorbed the toxic leftism that repelled conservatives, starting with the 1960s hippie movement.

Just as Antifa & Black Lives Matter damage historical city buildings & statues to annoy mainstream society, wind energy zealots deface the land & sea to gesture “against” the fossil fuel legacy while merely abetting it. Their willingness to ignore these new, bleak landscapes shows the power of mob psychology. Activists may not build the actual wind turbines but they see them as different from old industrial icons like coal mines. Some will applaud mountains and coastlines blighted by giant white spikes, yet claim to despise small sins like Casey Nocket’s rock paintings, nearly invisible outside of social media. Perceived greenness is the color they consider oppressed, not caring about insincere branding. Like their SJW counterparts, WJWs (wind justice warriors) get angry when challenged on assumptions. “YOU MUST BE A RACIST AND A CLIMATE CHANGE DENIER.” Even if you explain that you fully understand AGW, they’ll cancel your opinion.

Leftists see police as an unnecessary evil, and the wind-woke think fossil fuels can also be pragmatically abolished. This agenda is most common among younger people who haven’t formed a balanced worldview, growing up when global warming news framed people as bigger victims than nature. This occurred while PC overpopulation denial became a trend. As with growing human numbers, neo-environmentalists don’t grasp the physical sprawl of “clean” energy relative to the “dirty” energy that builds it. Since dirty builds clean, how is clean not at least soiled? Extraction of all energy resources adds cumulative harm to nature. There’s no easy substitute based on evidence, so they pick the “greenest” angle for their slogans.

In an X (Twitter) debate about all the acreage being invaded by wind turbines in recent decades, this utterly false comment was posted: “We haven’t had natural vistas in a century. Were you even alive in the 1970’s?” It shows the mental blindness they have about machines they want to believe are saving the planet.

There's no free energy lunch and wind power sprawls further due to lower density.
“Renewables” zealots are too drunk on slogans to understand the scale of energy production. You can’t just reuse existing industrial lands.

These people need to be shown that sprawling wind projects can’t exist without portable, sufficiently dense energy to build them. Fossil fuels and wind are allies, not alternatives to each other. Short of a miracle battery that withstands rapid charging and high heat, portable, strong energy can only be had from oil, gas & coal. If you keep trying to build & maintain weak energy machines from only weak energy sources, the laws of ERoI & entropy quickly head toward a net energy cliff. With fossil fuels, the world could shake off ERoI losses because those inputs yielded much denser outputs. “Renewables” speculators refuse to apply that math to their gadgets.

Just look at the enormous size wind turbines require to spin relatively small generators. Their whole structure and array-spacing is inefficient because wind lacks density (vs. water dams). That inefficiency is what makes them so intrusive on nature. No large wind turbine has been built solely with wind or solar power, including materials-mining, fabrication, transport, installation, maintenance and backup power (typically from natural gas). If you’re against fracking yet for wind power, you don’t understand interdependence or scaling math. Wind wokeness also tends to shun hydro power, the ground-level version of aerial turbines.

Other intractable problems with wind energy have been covered on this blog. It’s just important to understand the latest emotional roots of wokeist climate-obsession, labeling those who still respect scenery & wildlife as “deniers.” Resistance to Big Wind doesn’t mean there’s no climate emergency. The eco-woke create a false dilemma with wind as a must-do option, rather than accepting its deep flaws.

A true climate solution is unlikely without degrowth and acceptance of scarcity. But, given Man’s track record, nothing is assured to work in any future scenario. Over the next few decades, small-footprint nuclear power may be the only way to preserve nature’s physical grandeur and the animals that fly through it. If you’re woke for Big Wind, learn more about environmentalism’s roots.

Overall, environmental progress is tainted by identity politics. It puts poor people in the automatic victim category, yet they inflict damage like deforestation through sheer numbers, minus tech-amplification. Personal character always matters, since ruthless takers exist in all groups. A home invasion robber like George Floyd could have become an African rhino poacher, given his failure to respect other laws. Be careful when you pick martyrs for any cause.

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Fools on the Left. Fools on the Right. No End in Sight.

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A list of three significant flaws at both fringes. Just another entry in the ongoing theme of this blog.

Newton's Cradle, showing Left & Right extremes with an apathetic Center.

Foolishness on the political LEFT:

Soft on crime is no stereotype and Democrats keep proving it, as we’ve seen in the 2020/2021 riots. Law enforcement is essential but it’s always messy business, especially when criminals fight back. Those thugs come in different colors and oppress or kill their good neighbors on a daily basis. Slogan-based, quasi-moral gangs like Antifa and Black Lives Matter never riot over those casualties. Using a related professional metaphor, they’d rather attack firemen than sources of ignition.

Socialism in its purest forms can’t work because human nature won’t allow it to. People operate on greed, self-interest and lies as a survival strategy. Power structures will always re-form over time if you destroy them, so why waste energy and resources to return to the same realization? “Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it” is another way of stating the obvious. College students, fresh on history from the classroom, often understand it less than alumni who’ve forgotten minutia. Elected leaders should ideally not be under 30 because they’re naive about social processes.

Identity politics and woke historical shaming can’t force life to be fair on this unforgiving planet. All that does is irritate people trying to live their lives. Adults should understand that striving for equality of outcomes has been tried before. Future attempts will fail for the same reasons earlier ones did. Any idealistic youth who’s been on a disappointing date or lost a football game should know you can’t always be welcome or successful. It would take a species without human traits to manage full equity among races, classes and genders.

Foolishness on the political RIGHT:

Global warming is a “hoax” is the default Republican attitude on environmental topics, even if not put that bluntly. They keep assuming CO2 molecules must respect their narrow definitions of freedom and patriotism. They had the same canned skepticism about acid rain, the ozone hole and other forms of man-made pollution, all because avarice and industrial hegemony was questioned. They tend to see nature as beneath them, the height of arrogance, tying into religion (below). Being willfully ignorant of evidence essentially makes people stupid. The Right often operates with reason but builds logic walls around specific topics.

Gun worship is generally a juvenile phase but some people never outgrow it. They get bored with just looking at guns, so they take up crass hobbies like “sport” hunting and rationalize owning far more firepower than needed, which inevitably gets into the hands of criminals. Sometimes, they become those criminals, freaking out and shooting up public places after years of drooling over weaponry. They miss the hypocrisy of gun-fetishism when they complain about crime, gangs crossing the border with stolen firearms, and so on. You can tell they’d rather keep the world violent just to have an enemy to shoot at.

Founded on supernatural beliefs, churches have formed societal structures and inspired morality, but they’re also a venue for ignorance, dwelling on an ancient book that needs major revisions. Many new things have been learned over the centuries in medicine and science, improving life, along with some trade-offs. But knowledge gets selectively interpreted by people of faith who wall themselves off from evidence. As the world gets more crowded and interdependent there’s less room for rigid, dogmatic beliefs. The most dangerous faith-based views involve resource-scarcity denial, like “God will decide when oil peaks” rather than geology.

Summary:

Humans are too innately tribal to solve chronic social and environmental problems. Many of them enjoy having enemies more than cooperating with each other and nature. Members of each tribe claim that “only those people” have flawed logic. This could be seen as a lack of education or critical thinking deficiencies, but schooling hasn’t worked. Some of the worst offenders are well educated and presume they can’t have biases.

The publicity-shy Center must speak up to prevent the fringes from controlling narratives. Still, not all the best ideas come from the Center; they’re often too bland or stoic. A wise society would choose the smartest concepts from each side and vote on them. It’s doubtful this will happen until an intractable resource-crisis forces it (see other posts on this blog).

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It’s Not Racist To Defend Your Quality Of Life From Different Cultures

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Note: Read the FULL content of this post before assuming it’s simplistic or bigoted in these polarized times.

Today’s woke, anti-police movement is naively idealistic and ignores how societies stay functional over time. This overzealous cause has decided that everyone has equal abilities, and any group that fails to thrive at modern* standards must be oppressed by others. Wokeness insists on equal outcomes merely because it seems fair. It’s really a conspiracy theory because it claims the world could be (or once was) truly fair, with scant historical evidence. Our species isn’t capable of consistent altruism, and all races are prejudiced against others in certain ways. Some claim racism only applies when one group has power over another, but there’s a lot more context. Power can simply mean the ability to spoil a neighborhood with unkempt yards or noise. It needn’t require political control.

The starkly-observed real world shows that certain “people of color” shift modern European & Asian societies to a lower level than they’ll tolerate, even if they won’t admit it directly. Some groups just have inherent traits that make their native lands unable to blend with modern life, which drives immigration pressure as they seek better prospects. When they arrive in new lands, a certain percentage will never assimilate or even try. You can ignore this known phenomenon, try to hide it with legislation, or face it squarely. That third approach is forbidden among liberals who prefer a complex framework of denial, driven by guilt over historical sins with no statute of limitations. They treat the past as more important than the future.

They downplay racial groups who overcome adversity on their own. Asian American successes show that quality of life actually rests on collective personal traits, not skin color. They were once persecuted but had the mettle and brainpower to rise above it in new lands. You don’t see them fighting police or trying to impress people with money the easy way. Other groups just haven’t shown enough of those qualities, given centuries to prove otherwise. Beware of books like Guns, Germs and Steel that try to re-frame the obvious to avoid offending anyone. Indignant attitudes over anything that might be offensive are central to identity politics. It’s a lazy strategy to discourage accountability and keep people angry.

Inability to control crime is a common problem in third-world countries, and their physical infrastructure tends to be weak for similar reasons (if they can even build it themselves). They can’t gather enough skills or discipline to make things work in modern ways. Similarly, groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter find crime acceptable because they’re too lazy to live in a rigorous (sometimes boring) way that keeps human nature in line. Instead, they want everyone to be agitated, constantly high, and free to avoid solid routines. This doesn’t align with pragmatic ways of living, and many of them are too young to see why. Radicals are mainly good at throwing tantrums and breaking things, so police are their natural enemies. No need to take it much deeper than that! There will always be some oppression, but many oppressors can be found in the mirror.

Antifa & Black Lives Matter riots.
Antifa & Black Lives Matter are anarcho-communists who want to “f-ck shit up” but the media constantly downplays their violence.

Blacks have an unruly, impulsive subgroup (akin to dumb rednecks) that constantly disrespects anyone in earshot or gunshot range. We’re allowed to mock trashy rednecks as bad neighbors, yet forced to have sympathy for their black counterparts due to historical oppression, and therein lies the problem. Their life soundtrack (also adopted by nasty whites) is angry rap music that amplifies negative traits. The 2021 Miami Beach spring break crowds were a recent example; primarily rowdy black people “doing what they do” without regard for others. Noisy hip-hop culture, twerking and unintelligible yammering are a big part of it. How they got that way in America is complicated, but it can be traced to 1960s welfare programs breaking up families and making fathers optional. Street gangs fill the void and crime follows. It’s a fact of life that men get out of control more easily than women, and have to be raised correctly.

It’s OK to admit what’s already clear to millions of Americans stuck living amid it. The media (liberal aspect) tries to hide black crime by blaming law enforcers and coddling the lawless over old race grievances. Joe Biden didn’t stand for that excuse in 1993, but he’s gambling big with the race card now. See more details on the crime topic and why George Floyd was no John Lewis (bad trouble vs. good trouble). The Derek Chauvin trial verdict was overwrought to appease thug culture and maintain a victimhood narrative. It should have been about one arrestee and a jaded cop, not a nationwide referendum on police, as if criminals are kind & gentle to others of their race. Cops don’t exist to “oppress POC.” They keep bad people in check, and should be respected for vital work. We’d need literal robocops for no errors to occur.

Conservative and generally wise blacks often point this out but get branded as Uncle Toms because they aren’t afraid to be intelligent or “act white.” The constantly complaining black element isn’t friendly to criminals by chance. Pseudo-intellectual whites who support Black Lives Matter assume that breaking windows and setting fires is a form of redress, not just destruction. They’re bent on defunding and deconstructing modern police and replacing them with warlords and biased rules that fail in civilized nations (Seattle’s CHAZ/CHOP was purely parasitic). They somehow think it’s a fresh idea that appeals to the public.

Few Americans want to see this become normalized. Our homeless camps look similar for good reason.

Civilized people want clean, quiet, nice surroundings, not homeless camps, social parasites and criminals doing whatever they please. Reasonable people don’t harp on random police blunders when it’s obvious who’s truly brutal and committing the most crime, in America and Europe after they dived into multiculturalism. Slavery and old white sins are a separate issue from modern crime control, but social justice zealots want to merge everything into one big gripe against the system. They offer nothing historically workable as a replacement, just cheap slogans and ruined property.

Equality of outcome is an unrealistic goal, since people end up where they are via ambition, brainpower and many subtle factors, not just external forces. We’re a lot more like tree branches than leaves on the wind. But equality of outcome is a central thesis of socialists who refuse to accept the foundations of human nature. Many of them mean well but they don’t accurately observe longstanding patterns (what works and what doesn’t). They exist in a stupor of blind hope, often aided by drugs that give a false sense of expanded awareness.

As other posts on this blog point out, modern* economies are unsustainable in their current form, but taking the sleazy road by blaming law enforcement for maintaining livability is the realm of criminals, not true progressives. We can’t keep lowering moral & achievement bars to please people who gripe unless everything’s given to them.

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