http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/05/serfs-up/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:27:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/05/serfs-up/comment-page-1/#comment-66511 Blue Crab Boulevard » Where Are The Real Environmentalists? Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:10:25 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/05/serfs-up/#comment-66511 [...] I have linked - repeatedly - to articles from all over the world that indicate that it has never been easier to rape the earth than it is today. All you have to do is say you are fighting "global warming" and you are good to go. Eradicate the orangutans? Cool, just say you're producing biofuel. Torch the rain forests. Ditto. Enslave humans to make ethanol. Easily done. It's for the good of the planet! Displace native people? Piece of cake. (Biofuel is a great excuse for earth-rape.) Make humans run on giant hamster wheels? Carbon offsets, baby! This is so damn easy. [...] [...] I have linked – repeatedly – to articles from all over the world that indicate that it has never been easier to rape the earth than it is today. All you have to do is say you are fighting "global warming" and you are good to go. Eradicate the orangutans? Cool, just say you're producing biofuel. Torch the rain forests. Ditto. Enslave humans to make ethanol. Easily done. It's for the good of the planet! Displace native people? Piece of cake. (Biofuel is a great excuse for earth-rape.) Make humans run on giant hamster wheels? Carbon offsets, baby! This is so damn easy. [...]

]]> http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/05/serfs-up/comment-page-1/#comment-65177 Blue Crab Boulevard » About Those Jobs Americans Won’t Do Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:11:09 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/05/serfs-up/#comment-65177 [...] So that begs the question: What do the displaced workers do when the machines take over these jobs? More importantly, what does society do with them? I know there's a number of people who are in favor of serfdom, I don't happen to be one of them. [...] [...] So that begs the question: What do the displaced workers do when the machines take over these jobs? More importantly, what does society do with them? I know there's a number of people who are in favor of serfdom, I don't happen to be one of them. [...]

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