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Sawing off the limbs we've climbed up to see

Posted by JMG (Guest Contributor) at 11:48 AM on 03 May 2007

From the article "Holiday at the End of the Earth: Tourists Paying to See Global Warming in Action," posted on Common Dreams:

"The idea of global-warming tourism is full of ironies," he said. "If enough people expend enough fossil fuels to visit one Warming Island, they will ensure that there will be many more."

It's all a matter of methodology

Put them in row boats and send them on their way to the great warming islands and not only won't they add to greenhouse gas emissions, but many of them won't make it back, thus doing something constructive about population growth that is making all environmental problems so acute.  I think that is more or less what Erik the Red had in mind when he named an icy island Greenland in the first place.  ;-)

Go Way To Sequester the Top 3%


Put them on holiday...one way ticket and all that.

Mr. Branson, Ms. Crow, the "special guests" section is that way.

Then turn tail and run!


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