Saw this guy, Bjorn Lomborg, on TV the other day talking about a movie he's got out called "Cool It." Let me make it clear that I haven't seen this movie and really don't intend to. But I did see the guy and read about a half-dozen reviews of it at RottenTomatoes. It may not be as bad as I assumed, or perhaps not bad in the same way that I assumed.
Lomborg looks like a college cheerleader. Really. Very bouncy, optimistic, hair cut that looks exactly like a hay stack after a not-too-devastating wind storm. For some reason he reminded me of these relentlessly cheerful and clean-cut singing groups that were popular in the late 1960s/early 1970s. They made a bizarre kind of counterpoint to the hippies and went around the country singing happy songs and apparently indulging in some well-rehearsed and entirely non-offensive patter between sets. Pretending it was maybe 1954 and there was no "Generation Gap" and your kids weren't dropping acid and burning down the Administration Building on weekends. Sort of playing into the wishful delusions of a certain market.
Anyway, that's how this guy struck me. My first thought, OMG, Al Gore Lite.
He said something like, "OK, for the movie, we're just assuming there is Global Warming... We just think there might be some less disruptive solutions for it."
Yup. Al Gore Lite? As it turns out, going by the reviews, maybe not. Quite.
According to the film's synopsis at RottenTomates, "Lomborg is the founder of the economic think tank, Copenhagen Consensus, which brings together the world's leading economists to prioritize major global problems -- among them malaria, the lack of potable water and HIV/AIDS -- based upon a cost/benefit analysis of available solutions."
So he's basically another globalist, and apparently what he wants to do mainly is shift the public's attention from Saving the Planet to his own particular concerns. OK. Fine.
But don't we (the US and other developed nations) already pour billions of dollars every year into U.N. programs to combat malaria, the lack of potable water, and HIV/AIDS around the world? And doesn't all that money already just go into some rat-hole somewhere, i.e. the numbered bank accounts of certain third-world ambassadors or delegates or whatever they call themselves?
I mean, maybe Bjorn is new to the USA, though he speaks pretty good, idiomatic, and even bouncy and perky English -- but doesn't he know that most of the people in the US are growing pretty damn weary of having all the world's problems laid on our doorstep? I mean, it's not like we have any money left. And what we do have is not going to be worth anything by Christmas.
And why is this movie in English, by the way, if his think tank is in Copenhagen? Shouldn't it be in Danish? Or maybe even Esperanto to attract the world's attention.
Anyway, just something that caught my attention. Haven't written in here for a while, and these things pile up.
Wouldn't it be nice if the so-called undeveloped nations of the world did something once in a while to develop themselves? I mean instead of just accepting the status of being "causes" for well-meaning global socialists?
Just a thought.
Save the Republic.
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