Blue Crab Boulevard

Luxury For Them, Serfdom For You

15,000 politicians, bureaucrats, lobbyists, activists, journalists and other assorted celebrities, hangers-on and others have descended on Nusa Dua, Bali in Indonesia to discuss global warming.

Over the course of the eleven-day meeting, these people will discuss how to limit carbon emissions. These same people will generate an estimated 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide in travel to and from the conference and lord knows how much energy and consumables while they are there. Many of those consumables will, of course, have to be shipped to Nusa Dua, adding substantially to the carbon footprint of the gargantuan meeting. They'll be staying in magnificent resorts and hotels like this, this, this and this.

Now these people will be doubtlessly busy during the conference, but presumably not too busy to indulge in some of the local tourist attractions, nightlife and grand dining that the resort area is known for – in fact, exists for. Why, Pictures show that Nusa Dua is a veritable paradise, it is according to their tourism people and a magnet for the jet set from all over.

Crystal clear water and stretches of white sandy beach of Nusa Dua makes Nusa Dua a perfect spot for luxurious resorts to which your exhausted bodies, after a Barong performance at Batubulan and a long climb of the steps of the Mother Temple Besakih, will want to rest. Some of the most sumptuous and luxurious hotels in the world find their home in Nusa Dua Bali. You can relax in the Thalasso spa of the Grand Mirage Resort after a day of surfing or diving. Or you can tee off into the sunset, while watching the gentle waves come from the blue sea and caress the banks surrounding the luscious greens. Tranquil swimming pools under the coconut trees seem to be one with the distant blue sea. Art galleries and numerous shops surround them.

So, while these functionaries plot out how to limit your lives, how to immensely increase the cost of your energy, how to redistribute your wealth on a global scale, they will not be doing so in anything less than plutocratic splendor that emperors of even a century ago could not have dreamed of.

But don’t worry. They are doing it for all the best reasons. Trust them. They'll wave from the limousines.

UPDATE: Many thanks to ICECAP for the link, I'm honored. Also thanks to Fausta, PoliGazette and the Irish Spy for linking. Visitors, please do take a look around.

Environment, Junk Science, World news | Gaius Tuesday, 4 December , 2007

By Pam, Wednesday, 5 December , 2007 @ 7:41 am

But…but…what about carbon credits? Surely those dollars they spend will “offset” any damage they may do by their travel and subsequent tropical frolics. You just don’t understand, Gaius…you are not among the elite.
By Gaius, Wednesday, 5 December , 2007 @ 7:44 am

Ah, yes, the carbon offsets. Like condemning people to lives of miserable serfdom working giant hamster wheels.

http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/05/serfs-up/
By Fred, Wednesday, 5 December , 2007 @ 1:21 pm

Carbon credits are what I use to assuage my climate guilt.

I follow Al Gore’s policy of buying them from me, so I can enrich myself, not feel guilty and still carry on regardless.

Sorry, couldn’t resist.
By mikiwud, Thursday, 6 December , 2007 @ 4:05 am

Al Gorebells offsets his travel and home energy use by buying carbon credits……from his own company!
By Greg Taylor, Thursday, 6 December , 2007 @ 7:52 am

Al Gorebells. WOW! What a coincidence. It was Goebbels who said truth can become the enemy of the state!! And remember that in German his mane is pronounced “Gerbuls”. We now have a new minister of AGW propaganda!!