Growls

When we growled on February 9, 2009 that Arlington County debt has been growing faster than inflation, we noted that “sustainable” and “sustainability” are two of the County Board’s favorite words, based upon a search of the county’s website. Again on March 14, we growled about the County Board kow-towing to the enviro-statists when they approved a “green building” by offering “greater bonus density for higher levels of environmental sustainability.”

I was reminded of the above growls as I was reading a recent article, “UNESCO-topia: Sustainability’s Big Brother.” Written by Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars, the following paragraph seems pertinent, especially to the so-called “cap and tax” legislation that passed the House of Representatives and is expected to be debated in the Senate later this year:

"It is strange how little the radicalism of the sustainability movement registers with the general public—or even with politicians and denizens of think tanks who are normally alert to the machinations of the ideological left. It is as though Americans have acquired a selective deafness. The sustainatopians announce at the top of their lungs, “We want to reduce greenhouse gases, eliminate capitalism, and revolutionize the social order!” And all that a good portion of the public hears is, “Oh, they favor burning less fossil fuels. That’s nice!”"

Ah yes, those wonderful enviro-statists and their marvelous utopian dreams.