State of Fear

I am reading the novel 'State of Fear' by Michael Crichton at the moment. (ISBN# 978-0-06-101573-1 in case you care). This is my kind of story. The premise of the story is that the extreme environmentalist movement is nothing but a huge, fearmongering fundraiser, giving society something to fear, in order to control them. Not only that, but that 'global warming' is just a load of crap. The cool thing about the book is that all the documentation supporting the position that global warming is crap is footnoted and for real.

I like this story. I am not a tree-hugger. This is not to say that I believe we should wantonly pollute our earth, but there needs to be balance. And I believe that global warming is a load of horse-hooey. And I can't stand those Toyota Prius cars.

I look forward to the time, about 5-8 years from now, when all these hybrid cars become just so much junk. I believe the Europeans have the right idea, and have developed the diesel engine heavily, producing very fuel efficient and powerful cars, without lugging hundreds of pounds of environmentally unfriendly lead-acid batteries around.

But, people will be sheep. They will believe in global warming, and they will believe that they are assisting in reducing it by buying cars full of lead-acid batteries. I say 'WHAT EVER' I also try to imagine what kind of polluting bastards the dinosaurs must have been.... look what they brought on themselves. Probably too many '59 Cadillacs in their day.

Added to iTunes today....

song 'We Live' by Superchick
song 'More Shine' by Si*Se (free iTunes download, eh)