It’s Never Too Late to be Irrelevant

Last night, local public television aired an episode of what they think is relevant and even-handed science programming. It was really poltical propaganda and disaster porn for comfortable lefties:

Featuring environmental visionary Lester Brown, “Plan B: Mobilizing To Save Civilization” delivers a clear and unflinching message – either confront the realities of climate change or suffer the consequences of lost civilizations and failed political states.
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What makes Plan B significant and timely is that it provides audiences with hopeful solutions — a road map that will help eradicate poverty, stabilize population, stabilize climate, and protect and restore the earth’s forests, soils and fisheries. It includes ways of protecting and restoring soils, forests, rangelands, and oceanic fisheries, plus conserving the earth’s biological diversity. It also features case studies that clearly show signs of a new energy economy emerging.

They’re still harping on global warming? And the short version of those solutions was, “Invest heavily in rainbows and unicorns!” Forced spending does not create an “energy economy”, it creates a rent-seeking subsidy economy. There’s no accounting among these types for what people value (by spending their own money).

Defenders of subsidy TV really cannot see their own bias. They think they’re smart and well-informed because they watch public television. The rest of us resent being forced to contribute to their church. And we fear living under the eco-sharia rules.

In related news, even in California, weather is not climate. The Plan B program made a lot of noise about food security and drought-induced famine. But according to Governor Moonbeam, the drought in America’s richest agricultural zone is over. The climate hasn’t changed after all.

H/T: Maggie’s Farm