The Gang Green Sets Eyes on the Internet

Timothy Birdnow

The Left wants to control the internet. For too many years they held complete dominion over the dissemination of information, with most major newspapers, with television, with radio, with the schools and universities under their thumbs. But talk radio and then the internet came along and now people can find islands of truth in the sea of liberal lies, and this upsets their plans; they had thought to usher in the kingdom age of Marx by now, with the state withering away as everyone lived the communist dream. It didn't happen, and that must be because those reactionaries on the web have prevented it.

Sooooo

This from James S. Robbins of the Washington Times:

"Is the internet the new enemy of the environment? There is increasing concern in environmental circle over the energy demands of the internet. Mohamed Cheriet of Montreal's Ecole de Technologie Superieure was quoted in the June 3 Vancouver Sun saying that "the Internet pollutes, but people don't understand why it pollutes. It's very, very power-hungry, and we have to reduce its carbon footprint."

Green activists point to the growing number of massive and secretive "server farms" that store and transmit data across the system. Each one can have energy demands equal to a small city.

But before we start shutting down the internet to save the planet, check out a May 16 report from the United Nations Human Rights Council that declares internet access a fundamental human right. "Given that the Internet has become an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights, combating inequality, and accelerating development and human progress," writes Special Rapporteur Frank LaRue, "ensuring universal access to the Internet should be a priority for all States."

Meanwhile the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change recommends a target average global carbon footprint that is one-quarter the burden placed on Mother Earth by a homeless American, according to a 2008 MIT study. It will take a long time for the environmentalists to sort all this out, just don't Google it too much or polar bears will start dying and it will be your fault."

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Keep the preamble to this in mind; this is not ultimately about nature, but about power. The left is looking for some way to justify control of the internet, and this is their latest scheme to demand "commonsense regulations" meaning shutting conservative mouths. Attacking the internet on it's carbon footprint is a logical step.

It's why Global Warming was promoted in the first place; any human activity can be regulated as a result. Everything produces carbon dioxide; we are carbon-based life forms. All life on Earth is carbon based.
And most chemical processes we are likely to see on Earth release carbon.

In the musical The Music Man con man Harold Hill wants to bilk the townsfolk in River City Iowa out of a lot of money, and to do that he wants to sell them a boys band complete with instruments, uniforms, and music lessons. He knows nothing about music, and intends on skipping town once he has their money. How to get the distrustful people of River City to enthusiastically throw money at him? He creates a crisis. The town has a pool hall, and Hill whips the people into a frenzie, claiming said hall promotes bad morals. Soon the children will be saying foul words like swell and gee-whiz! By creating a crisis from a non-problem he succeeds in getting the town's money.

Global Warming is much like that. The inner core - Hansen, Jones and the Hockey Team, Lovelock, etc. use the U.N. and the IPCC to whip up crisis mentality, then the bill of goods can be sold. forty years ago it may well have worked, too; opposing viewpoints would simply have been expunged, and the public would believe this is settled science. With the internet we can hear opposing views, we can see the evidence directly rather than through a journalist, shoot, we can check the temperature in Nome, Singapore, Kinshasa, Longyearbayan, Djakarta, etc. We don't have to be told what we are to think; we can look up the facts ourselves. The internet made victory at C (for carbon) impossible. The left expected to have this all wrapped up by now.

So the internet is a top priority, and they will continue to float ideas for seizing it. We must be vigilant if we want to keep the truth flowing forward.