Green Assholes Try To Threaten China

In the Dec. 19 New York Times, Thomas Friedman argued that what failed at Copenhagen was the entire "Earth Day" strategy, that of a rumored future "doomsday" as a stick to force policy changes. What needs to replace it, he says, is the "Earth Race" (carrot) strategy, where environmentalist goals are tied to market-driven strategies, all pivoted on the Senate passing a Cap-and-Trade bill.

"The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature," says Friedman, "is Father Greed: the Market. Only a market, shaped by regulations and incentives to stimulate massive innovation in clean, emission-free power sources can make a dent in global warming.... Maybe the best thing President Obama could have done here in Copenhagen was to make clear that America intends to win that race. All he needed to do in his speech was to look China's prime minister in the eye and say: 'I am going to get our Senate to pass an energy bill with a price on carbon so we can clean your clock in clean-tech. This is my moon shot. Game on.'"

Lyndon LaRouche noted that Friedman's comments are "nothing but desperation. They have nothing up their sleeves, but assholes."

The "assholes" in this case, are the theorists behind the entire "green job" hoax. The operative theory is that the "human vs nature" argument has failed, to be replaced with market ideology: a "win-win" situation of making green (dollars) from going green.