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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, June 09, 2005

RE: Greens Are the Real Energy Problem

From a blogger named Nomen Nescio:

The irony of someone posting anti-environmental rhetoric on a blog named after Theodore Roosevelt! Today's neo-cons would have called an environmental
extremist. Do you know how many Republicans hated Roosevelt when he "locked up" the land for aesthetic reasons? He had to go behind those Taker$' backs to save
millions of acres from their tunnelvi$ion. The same battles are being fought
today against anti-nature dweebs and bean counting economists.

Steven Milloy is a well-known propagandist who thinks most environmentalism is
"extreme." He was one of the guys who tried to make smoking seem benign.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Steven_Milloy
The real way to solve our energy problems (if it's even possible) is to breed
less, consume less and replace fossil fuels as we can (assuming we can).
Weakening pollution laws to enable more fossil fuel extraction is just more of
the same greedy drone behavior that got us to this point.

Computer programmers, who exist in an abstract world of seemingly infinite
possibilities, are notoriously poor at understanding the physical limits of
nature.

See http://www.limitstogrowth.org/

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