denial is not a river in africa. i mean outside. right now. in the world. the economy. not in dreamland.

Or in the lying leftie MSM, which has been trying to cause a recession for the entire Bush administration.
All they have to show for their efforts is a temporary slowdown. You’re dreaming if you don’t recognize how strong our economy is, Sparkie, but then, that’s par for the course for you.

Scientific evidence is springing up everywhere that indicates the massive and pernicious impact of the human species on the limited resources of Earth…

There is no “limited resources”. We are only limited by our genius. The universe is our playground. We are not going to run out of the universe until the end of time.

And Sparkless has no clue what he’s talking about.

US GDP increased 2.2% in the current estimates for 2007. That’s off a bit from the 2006 numbers, but it’s not that bad either.

The fourth quarter appears to have been a bit weaker at .6% growth but that’s coming off an excellent 3rd quarter which was at 4.9%. Besides those numbers are preliminary and will likely be adjusted.

All we heard all month was how bad retail sales were. They were up over 4% in December on top of a really excellent year last year.

Maybe you should quit taking your economic information from Keith Olbermann.

I understand Sparky’s grocery bill is one of the Dow key indicators. If it’s up $25, that’s bad for Sparky (or his mom), but it might be good for the rest of us (that would be the people who aren’t you, Sparkle). Economics is a heady subject Sparkster, and I can tell you these guys are eating your lunch–something you can hardly afford.

A Reader this is a bash the democrats blog.

Is that your justification for your unrelenting lying hatespew against conservatives here? A weak excuse at best.

Dammit. Whistler… not Rob.

I really need to start reading the bylines.

Clinton advocated an economic slowdown, then pointed out how it might not work. He voted for it before he voted against it.

Is Bill Clinton the only person on the planet prepared to talk openly about a real global issue, one that is ominously looming before humanity on the far horizon?

What I find surpirsing is this: even though Bill Clinton has “stepped it up” by talking about the need to slow the global economy — given its leviathan scale and, perhaps, soon to become unsustainable growth rate — there remains one problem, the proverbial “mother” of all global challenges, about which Republicans and Democrats, the self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe and ordinary people, the corporatists and environmentalists, leaders and followers remain in virtually total denial…. trenchantly unwilling to discuss openly:

OVERPOPULATION ISSUE OVERLOOKED BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/269259

THE CAPITAL TIMES, Madison, WI
Rob Zaleski — 1/25/2008

Thanks for your attention. Comments are invited.

Rob… do as they say, not as they do. Besides, when these envirotwits add 3,000 sq ft wings to their mansions, they’ll be sure to buy sufficient offsets to counter their carbon footprint.

The plebes must sacrifice for the greater good. And for the children.

I updated and bumped the story to the top.

I’m pretty surprised that ABC would smear Clinton like this. Must be an Obama guy?

SES: If the growth rate is really “unsustainable” as you claim, then you have nothing to worry about, do you? It will “slow down” by itself. The reality is, you’re trying to sell a used car: “The Population Bomb” by Paul Ehrlich, which is simply a piece of NeoMalthusian drivel. Good luck with that.

Something is happening that many too many people appear not to be seeing, I suppose.

Scientific evidence is springing up everywhere that indicates the massive and pernicious impact of the human species on the limited resources of Earth, its frangible ecosystems and life as we know it.

Guided by mountains of carefully and skillfully developed research regarding climate change, top rank scientists like Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Hans J. Schellnhuber and Dr. Christopher Rapley issued a Climate Code Red emergency declaration this month to leaders of governments and to the family of humanity proclaiming the necessity for open discussion and action by politicians and economic powerbrokers.

From my humble perspective, many leaders of the global political economy are turning a blind eye to human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen recklessly dissipating the natural resources and dangerously degrading the environs of our planetary home. The Earth is being ravaged; but it appears many leaders are willfully refusing to acknowledge what is happening.

Because the emerging global challenges that could soon be presented to humanity appear to so many fine scientists as human-induced, leaders have responsibilities to assume and duties to perform, ready or not, like them or not.

Perhaps leadership in our time has too often chosen to ignore whatsoever is somehow real in order to believe whatever is politically convenient, economically expedient, socially agreeable, religiously tolerated and culturally prescribed. When something real directly conflicts with what leaders wish to believe, that reality is denied. It appears that too many leaders are content to hold tightly to widely shared and consensually validated specious thinking when it serves their personal interests.

Is humanity once again finding life as we know it dominated by a modern Tower of Babel called economic globalization? That is, has human thinking, judging and willing become so egregiously impaired by our idolatry of the artificially designed, manmade, global political economy that we cannot speak intelligibly about anything else except economic growth and profits without sounding like blithering idiots?

Did Bill say anything about saving the economy? Because I heard him say that we’re going to destroy the economy to stop global warming.

You’re so literal. I thought my headline sounded good.

All slowing our economy down would do is cause more misery and despair in the name of junk science.

or in the name of junk wars. or junk cronyism and no bid bullshit… as it has for the last 8.

toot
how’s the economy right now, you tart?

We Have to Destroy the Economy In Order to Save It

Did Bill say anything about saving the economy? Because I heard him say that we’re going to destroy the economy to stop global warming.

By the way, who among you will be the first to volunteer your job, or your next pay raise, to stop global warming?

Al Gore’s got the sign up sheet.