Climate change and cannibalism
Posted 33 weeks 1 day ago byTed Turner is a pretty shrewd businessman, but he's no climatologist. He might be a bit of a dramatist, though:
TED TURNER: Not doing it will be catastrophic. We’ll be eight degrees hottest in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. (Emphasis mine.) Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state -- like Somalia or Sudan -- and living conditions will be intolerable. The droughts will be so bad there’ll be no more corn grown. Not doing it is suicide. Just like dropping bombs on each other, nuclear weapons is suicide. We’ve got to stop doing the suicidal two things, which are hanging on to our nuclear weapons and after that we’ve got to stabilize the population. When I was born...
CHARLIE ROSE: So what’s wrong with the population?
TURNER: We’re too many people. That’s why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff. If there were less people, they’d be using less stuff.
Watch the Charlie Rose interview here. (If you dare!)
Allahpundit at HotAir wonders: "What’s the first step to solving the 'too many people' problem? Imprisoning the skeptics? Taxing reproduction? Mandatory abortions? Or do we do the irresponsible thing and wait until they’ve finally figured out how to do climate modeling?"
But leave it to Ace to jump straight to the zombies.














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A Little Perspective
Submitted on April 4th, 2008 by AnonymousI live in Chattanooga where Mr. Turner attended private school and I know the kind of education he received at the McCallie School. He has absolutely NO excuse for such egregious lack of critical/logical reasoning.
Allow me to put the Malthusian myth of "too many people" in perspective.
Every last person on Earth will fit into a one mile cube, that's 1 mile x 1 mile x 1 mile, which could be dropped into the Pacific Ocean or even the Grand Canyon and not be noticed.
Do the math Ted.
+Nate
Funny stuff
Submitted on April 3rd, 2008 by Jim LakelyLots of people on the right side of the blogosphere are having a good time with this. A reader of The Corner sent this to one of National Review's posters:
Those kids sound pretty bright. Even odds that they're home schooled. And Jonah has his own wise crack:
Heh.