Mickey to Greenpeace: Drop Dead
THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should put climate change on top of its agenda and seek help from developed countries to set up adaptation and mitigation measures to protect the people and economies of the region, the international environmental group Greenpeace urged Tuesday,
reports the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
“Because poverty, unemployment, soaring birthrates, income inequality and Islamist terrorists are soooo 20th century. The appropriate response to this is, to paraphrase the New York Daily News: “East Asia to Greenpeace: Drop Dead,”" counters Grumpus.
UPDATE
THE international environmental group Greenpeace on Monday called an agreement signed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its six dialogue partners “disappointing” for not containing concrete proposals to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region.
Full article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer here.
“Looks like ASEAN took my advice,” says Grumpus.
you’re right. our world is plagued by one social problem after the other. there are pressing issues such as poverty and food security.
but haven’t you even considered that climate change exacerbates these problems? that indifference and inaction to this urgent environmental concern actually threatens man’s survival in this world?
Far be it for me to engage in a serious dialogue in the comments section of my wife’s blog, but considering that addressing climate change (the way Greenpeace and its acolytes want) involves the expenditure of resources that our country already has very little of and requires diversion of the few resources we already do have from improving our economic situation, forgive me for disagreeing.
Besides, I don’t see how climate change exacerbates poverty and food security. As far as food security is concerned, a recent report suggested that up to 1/3 of greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to livestock. So food security actually makes global warming worse, not the other way around! Let me guess, now we should kill all the cows and chickens and turn vegan.
Apropos poverty and climate change, I’m afraid to say that the best way to get people out of poverty is to create employment, not to plant more trees. This typically means manufacturing plants, call centers, etc., all of which *gasp* may cause more greenhouse gases to be emitted. A bit simplistic, but then again this is a light-hearted, romantic comedy type of blog so this isn’t really the forum for heavy discussions.
Anyway, read this guy, http://www.lomborg.com/, for more info.