Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day.

This year's topic is the environment.

I'll just remind you that the environment is in fact being used to empower the nouveau régime.



In light of the awarding of a certain prize to a certain demagogue last Friday, we should now move to have the prize renamed the Nobel Prize for Outstanding Demagoguery and Propaganda.

This year's prize should, however, not come as a surprise. The prize was awarded in 1920 for 1919 to the bête noire of this weblog, and he was not exactly innocent in the atrocities of the 20^th century. It did not stop there.

Awareness of environmental and climate change issues is supposedly a way of avoiding future conflict. So if conflict possibly may arise out of situations that possibly may occur in the future, one awards a peace prize to someone who uses alarmism and propaganda to create “awareness” about a possible situation in the future, which mankind possibly (?) can do something about? Impressed? I guess that's what happens when you put members of the Norwegian political class to the task of awarding a peace prize.

I guess the members of the political class are blinded by their own utopian visions. They seem not to be able to see the problems with a world (attempted) made in the image of politicos. This at least goes for the issue of peace. In fact, political utopias have had a tendency to promote the opposite of peace.

On another note, what about all the resources we stand at the risk of wasting due to climate hysteria, resources that alternatively can be used for measures that more obviously are peace-promoting.

Al Gore is a proponent of more government coercion. If you have a seven foot guy with a baseball bat standing above you, and he threatens to slam you in the head if you move, and you don't move, you might say there's no conflict, and politicos would probably call it peace.

Jeffrey Tucker told us last November that the Nobel Committee seems always in the position of following the zeitgeist rather than leading.

Mike Rozeff has an LRC article on the prize today.

Jan Oberg of Lund, Sweden is one of those who made a statement Friday.

Please also feel free to visit or revisit my article on the nomination of Al Gore to the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007.

H/T: Vampus (video)