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Screw 'Sustainability' - And I Am Here To Tell You Why
Submitted by Howard Bloom on 25 March 2008 - 12:22am.

Posted in Scientific Blogging. You know, because saying, "Screw the earth!" is probably the most scientific thing I can think of, since science has been shitting on the earth just as badly (and just as religiously) as religion has. Sometimes more. Sometimes more efficiently.

Why screw it? He answers:

Because the word implies merely hanging in there, merely surviving, merely sustaining. It implies a penny-pinching earth, a miserly existence, a nature that punishes change, and a nature that prefers small tribes to large groups of human beings.
This is the same sort of argument I'd expect from Rush Limbaugh, who insists that all liberal-minded people are so seething with hatred toward anybody that has more than they do and just wants equal misery for all people. When in fact, what we're seeing is actual community, not amount of money.

Other gems include:

This sort of attitude has traditionally led to ignorance and to self-inflicted poverty.
Sort of attitude... caring about not destroying everything around you is a "sort of attitude" that leads to poverty. Actually, his attitude has led to poverty too... poverty of those that he runs over to get his lavish life... poverty of those he enslaves so he can lay back and live it up, not even paying attention to how many suffer to serve his ass... poverty of the children that his kind gives birth to, because they have poverty of thoughts, poverty of charity, poverty of humility, and worst of all, poverty of any form of humanity at all. They don't know how to connect with the world because they're taught they're above it. And it gets passed on and passed on until you have an entire people the same way.

This sustainability-style-thinking was responsible for the impoverishment of North Africa and of the Middle East that goes on to this day.
Okay, so in other words people... caring about the environment around you causes you to, again, to impoverish people, and in fact has continued to cause it to this day. It can't be caused by the people in power who continue to worsen the lives of all us with their carelessly written policies. It can't be that we're pushed into poverty. No, it's because we... say it with me...

...banned every new technology, shunned every new idea, and withdrew into fantasies of a past mistakenly viewed as a paradise.
Two premises fly over your head here. One is that obviously caring about the world means being a Luddite. How many have made that assumption of me? We aren't anti-technology. We're not trying to burn people who use a calculator at the stake. We're not even unscientific about the need to live sustainable lives... sustaining that which is around us, you buffoon! In fact, the people who did that so often were not caused by people trying to sustain their environment, but because they were brainwashed by religion... religion that made the same mistake as this asswipe's science does: THAT THE EARTH IS HERE FOR OUR USE AND ENJOYMENT... THAT WE OWN IT AND CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT WITH IT.

The second is that we're working for some paradise idea... that we're just unsettled malcontents who couldn't make it in this world. That may be the case with me personally (and only partially so) but it was the belief of many countless peoples who made it just fine... before assholes like this showed up and told them that they have to give up their lifestyles for his paradise. Just because he wants the world to serve him, he's gotta thing we all do. Some of us are thinking about things other than ourselves and our brief few decades on the earth, dumbass.

That's as far as I could made it in the article without vomiting, but I'll finish it later and give more argument. From what I can see, it's: Screw the planet if I can't have cartoons.

Hey... anybody who cares about sustainable living, let's misstate their position, then destroy them (supposedly) based on what we presume them to be. What a fucking douche. And I'm so sick of this. There's no way to control the people's image of you, especially if you have this so rampant in the brains of those not ready to be unplugged from the fucking Matrix.

Wake the fuck up, copper top. You ain't the only one on the earth and the universe don't revolve around you.