Recommend starting @ 10:30
Lenin’s slogan “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.”
The left used to believe in material progress.
By 1958 the claim that Capitalism was impoverishing the world was so ridiculous that the left abandoned it. A writer named Galbraith, in “The Affluent Society” led the way in the new “post-materialist” socialist critique of capitalism. The new criticism was of moral and materialistic degradation, and also claiming that the private secor impoverished the public sector (huh?).
Lew Rockwell quote: “It’s as if the socialists discovered that their plan creates poverty, so they decided to change their name to environmentalists to make poverty the goal.” HA!
@ 17:00 he reads a list of titles from Amazon.com about “sustainability.” Very funny.
@ 18:05 he picks apart a youtube interview with an Australian environmentalist. (very funny)
@ 24:20 He offers a list of examples:
* the last factory which made incandescent bulbs shut down.
* U.S.A. bedbug infestation (because D.D.T. is banned based on a propaganda book). Another chemical, propoxyl (?) that would get rid of them are also banned. Ohio Dept. of Health has pleaded in vain with the EPA to allow it.
* EPA recommends hot water, but also restricts temperature of water heaters.
* Mandatory recycling. Limited garbage pickup.
* Plumbing. Shower heads, toilets.
* Pseudoephedrin. People have gone to join for buying too much.
* Cars.
* Subsidies of electric car.
* Attack on energy, oil.
* Accusing BP of being like a terrorist organization.
* Attack on internet in the name of intellectual property. (Some libertarians disagree with this criticism.)