Rush Limbaugh's take on the environment.

[txaslftist]

I don't have a transcript, but I was listening to Rush the other day (why I must is another sad story), and he said words to the effect that:

"The whole environmental movement is leftist politics. I mean, God created the world, and it is complete lunacy to think that men's pollution can do anything to damage it. Why, we cannot even predict hurricanes with any accuracy, and a single erupting volcano produces more pollution than all the cars in the world. There's no proof of any global warming..." and on and on and on.

With this drivel being spooned at them every day, it is little wonder Republicans have lost the ability to reason.

[Beelzebud]

1. The guy is a heroin addict. 'nuff said. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

2. this has been the line since the days of Reagan

it's disgusting in its ignorance.

[Terran]

3. Good lord, he has lost his fucking mind?

To still be denying global warming is taking place is outright insanity. He should talk to some people in Alaska about what's happening to their environment.

[phantom power]

4. It works because it's what people want to believe

It's much more comforting to assume that nobody is responsible, nobody will have to change their lifestyle, etc.

Nobody wants to hear anybody tell them that times are going to be hard, and that we mostly have our own selves to blame. The last president to try that approach was Carter, and it's no coincidence that the next president we elected was Reagan.

[CrispyQ]

5. You are correct.

Any politician to tell the American people that they are going to have to implement a life style change is toast. The greatest nation on Earth has become the home of complacent, lazy, arrogant people with a sense of entitlement that boggles the mind.

[Jim__]

6. I'm curious ...

Did he provide any context for:

a single erupting volcano produces more pollution than all the cars in the world

is this every volcanoe? Is this factored for all time - I mean all cars man can produce, over all time, will not produce as much pollution as any single volcanoe?

As far as global warming goes, I think he's disagreeing with just about 100% of the world's climatologists? But then, what would they know about climate?

[txaslftist]

9. Context? We don't need no friggin' context...

His whole spiel made about as much sense as saying 'only god can make a tree, so men couldn't possibly cut it down..."

A caller called in and talked about how since a paper plant opened up on a river near her home, there are no fishes downriver from it. His response was along the lines of maybe the fish didn't like the smell...

[JHB]

7. Let Rush live in a "anti-environmental" simulator...

...kind of like one of this "Biosphere" things, except the air quality is kept at "late-60's LA after a few days of temperature inversion", the tap water is from a well contaminated by a leaking oil or gas tank, there's plenty of fresh, high-mercury fishg to eat, etc.

[zbdent]

8. I wonder if Rush would be happy to have all that pollution from

a nukular fallout upwind of his home in Florida . . .

[driver8]

10. One more reason I don't listen to this tub of shit...his show would

take away the time I use to poke myself in the eyes with a sharp stick.

[MostlyLurks]

11. Here's what I find terrifying about that line of thought.

I'll grant you that the denial of global warming isn't a warm fuzzy blanket to tuck me in at night, but what has always bothered me about this line of thought (we can't do anything to destroy the planet) is that it excuses, allows and encourages use of nuclear weapons.

Note how this jibes nicely with the administration's under-the-radar-and-yet-not-quite-hush-hush push to justify the use of nukes on Iran, how they said nukes were not off the table as an option where Iraq, and now Iran, were concerned, etc.

The idea that the people in power believe, essentially, that nuclear war wouldn't radically alter the planet is starkly chilling.

Mostly.

[Junkdrawer]

12. That's been his position for years...

"The actions of man CANNOT possibly have a global impact. End of discussion."

Now, the fact that Europe almost denuded itself of its forests had it not been for the discovery of coal in the 19th century, for example, has no effect on him.

[rniel]

13. I guess you never realize it's getting warmer outside

when your taking 30 oxycontin pills a day. Everything's fabulous all the time. Except the hearing loss.

[Shakespeare]

14. Well, following THAT logic, we can conclude that...

...Since Jesus was God manifested on earth, men certainly couldn't have murdered him. Right?

What a moran.

:eyes:

[Brewman_Jax]

15. I saw this in the parking lot

on an SUV--a Bush-Cheney bumpersticker, with a Conservation/Protect Wildlife vanity license plate.

Makes no sense to me, either.

[bnr65432]

16. i wonder if hes herd about the dodo bird

and that was before e made so much pollution

[txaslftist]

17. Or that fishing town in Japan where the mercury poisoned all the kids?