Posted by
rycK on Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:38:23 PM
Save the Witches!!
We must depend upon the New York Times, the Walter Duranty Paper of choice[1], and the ubiquitous leftist ragzine who provides us with advanced lessons in propaganda and occasionally gives us a few laughs. Today, we get a big laugh from one of the Times’ least cognitively endowed writers: Nicholas D. Kristof who writes that climate change kills witches!! In a hilarious article that draws from the outer fringes of sophistry, the inner depths of contempt of reason and sprinkled with bits of idle imagination we read musings like this:
“Here’s a forecast for a particularly bizarre consequence of climate change: more executions of witches.”[2]
Now, we have to wonder if this is good or bad.
“In rural Tanzania, murders of elderly women accused of witchcraft are a very common form of homicide. And when Tanzania suffers unusual rainfall — either drought or flooding — witch-killings double, according to research by Edward Miguel, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley.” [Emphasis is mine.]
This Edward Miguel joins the algore EcoNazi Circus[3] [4] [5] as some form of obscure bug catcher or perhaps a magic liniment sprayer who can confiscate the psyche of little minds like our author at the New York Times and inundate our society with tears of sorrow and stoke the fires of contempt for capitalism, the (obvious) cause of the demise of certain witches. Does our tax money pay for the ‘jobs’ of these people?
Is this witch downsizing some kind of rural justice? Are there local laws that allow witches to be eliminated from the tribes? Could this be natural law? The killing of witches[6] might just be part of the moral relativism[7] that is an intrinsic element in primitive societies in Africa, India and parts of California. Maybe this is part of their religion or culture and we should be tolerant. We shouldn’t criticize their beliefs and actions. Besides, how do we know that things might get worse if we suffer the witches to live? This practice may actually be a wonderful prophylactic jewel from the primitive cultures in terms of pest eradication.
“There is evidence that European witch-burnings in past centuries may also have resulted from climate variations and the resulting crop failures, economic distress and search for scapegoats. Emily Oster, a University of Chicago economist, tracked witchcraft trials and weather in Western Europe between 1520 and 1770 and found a close correlation: colder weather led to more crackdowns on witches.”
But, won’t global warming help the poor witches? What happened to the warming part of global warming?
Let us blame the US and industrialized countries:
“The greenhouse gases that imperil Africa’s future are spewing from the United States, China and Europe. The people in Bangladesh and Africa emit almost no carbon, yet they are the ones who will bear the greatest risks of climate change. Some experts believe that the damage that the West does to poor countries from carbon emissions exceeds the benefit from aid programs.”
No carbon is emitted in Africa? What about the cows and termites and other creatures? Methane is carbon some would admit. Some UN report said that 18% of all green house gases came from cow flatulence[8] and this was bigger than man-made contributions from industry and cars and such. Termites were implicated in this horror as well. Do termites have some bias against witches?
I think the author here did a boo boo here and maybe even repositioned the truth a little bit for political effect.
“So let’s remember that the stakes with climate change are broader than hotter summers or damaged beach houses. The most dire consequences of our denial and delay may include civil war — and even witch-killings — among the poorest peoples on earth.”
I wonder how many civil wars we had before the use of petroleum and coal?? What caused them?
We again thank the New York Times for some amusement
rycK
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[1] In honor of Stalin, Walter Duranty. “ He said that these people had to be "liquidated or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian mass". Duranty claimed that the Siberian labor camps were a means of giving individuals a chance to rejoin Soviet society but also said that for those who could not accept the system, "the final fate of such enemies is death.". Duranty, though describing the system as cruel, says he has "no brief for or against it, nor any purpose save to try to tell the truth". He ends the article with the claim that the brutal collectivization campaign which led to the famine was motivated by the "hope or promise of a subsequent raising up" of Asian-minded masses in the Soviet Union which only history could judge.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
[6] http://www.wicca.com/celtic/wicca/wicca.htm
[7] http://www.moral-relativism.com/
[8] Cutting the cheese: Cow flatulence fans global warming. http://media.www.collegian.com/media/storage/paper864/news/2007/01/18/Opinion/Cutting.The.Cheese.Cow.Flatulence.Fans.Global.Warming-2652114.shtml