Rush Limbaugh & Charlton Heston: The Vanity and Arrogance of Earth Day, Global Warming, and Climate Change
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 23, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Caé Blog Zone
Earth Day: Arrogance and vanity?
I personally like Earth Day. I believe it has served an important role in teaching people to stop being pigs as they had been for centuries. Gum wrapper or soda can? Toss it down anywhere. Hazardous wastes? Dump it in the river. Deplorable. People were like this for ages.
Since it was launched in the 1970s, Earth Day made us aware of our lazy, sloppy behavior. We’ve come a long way. America is cleaner than it was in the 1960s (so much of America was littered with trash, beaches were dangerous to walk on barefoot, and I remember frequent air pollution “smog alerts” when I was a kid). We’ve cleaned up our act by being less childish, have stopped living like Animal House frat-boy slobs, and have taken pride in keeping our “Earth house” clean.
However, that’s just not good enough for some people. Including Obama.
To these enviro-thugs, ALL people are sucking the life out of Earth. They believe our very existence here is harmful to Earth. If they could kill all people in the world, they’d be thrilled (except, they wouldn’t actually be thrilled, because they’d be DEAD). We always need to do more, spend more-more-more money, be more sacrificing by living like 19th-century peasants… all to justify taxpayers paying for the grossly expensive global warming myth Obama and his followers are perpetuating. The pendulum of responsibility has swung wildly left in the past decade. Now we’re harmful to climate.
Repeat the following, and repeat it often.
GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX.
I agree with Rush and thousands of reputable scientists through out the world: environmental zealots and our POTUS have jumped the shark, blaming us for future climate devastation that has not a shred of evidence. Despite there being approximately three times the amount of cars on American roads than were there in the 1970s, air pollution has dropped 40 percent. Amazing how Earth bounced back from that, isn’t it? But that just isn’t good enough. Horse and buggy probably wouldn’t be good enough for the enviro-thugs, either, because I’m sure there’s some third-rate junk science study about how horse farts will weaken the ozone layer and the Earth will burn up from the unfiltered sun’s rays.
In the radio program, Rush first discussed the ridiculous notion that mere people can long-term affect Earth and the climate, and how Earth’s temperature swings back and forth during its constant climate change cycles. (Transcript excepts are provided.)
RUSH: The vermin will infest the place, animals will populate all over the place, the earth simply reclaiming what it once had and never really lost. We think we put up concrete buildings and skyscrapers that we’re destroying the planet. Concrete comes from the earth, doesn’t it? I mean, do we import anything from Mars? Do we import anything from the moon? Do we import destructive materials from Pluto?
No.
Everything on the earth is from and of the earth, including us. We just happen to be the smartest living organisms on the planet. And, of course, because we’re the smartest, we are supposedly the most deadly and the most dangerous and the most polluting and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah…
Rush then thanked, praised, and explained the genius and innovation of Charles and Frank Duryea, Ludwig and Robert Nobel, the British company, JCB, Gordon Dancy, Thomas Edison, Wilbur and Orville Wright, Guglielmo Marconi, and Alexander Graham Bell for what they have contributed to our lives. Then, he gave the biggest thanks of all:
RUSH: But without question on Earth Day and every day, we owe our deepest gratitude to one inventor who is without equal.
As long as men and women inhabit the earth, our very existence will be tied to his remarkable and unequaled creations, too numerous to mention, too complex to ever fully understand. He is known by thousands of names, but we call him God, the sole creator of the heavens and the earth.
What incredible arrogance to believe that we limited human beings can destroy that which we cannot even begin to understand, much less create on our own, and that is earth and all of its glories.
So today, on Earth Day, we here at the EIB Network thank God for Mother Earth and for allowing us to live in the greatest of nations on that earth, the United States of America.
Jurassic Park, remember the book by Michael Crichton? Charlton Heston called here one day and wanted to read the foreword. So we said, “Have at it.”
The archived audio was played of actor Charlton Heston reading the following—humbling information that puts the whole grand tamale in perspective:
HESTON: You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity.
Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There’s been life on it for nearly that long, 3.8 billion years. Bacteria first; later the first multi-cellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea, on the land. Then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years, great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away — all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval.
Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcano eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving, an endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us.
If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once and all the plants, all the animals died and the earth was sizzling hot for a hundred thousand years, life would survive, somewhere: under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice.
Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again. The evolutionary process would begin again. It might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety. Of course, it would be very different from what it is now, but the earth would survive our folly, only we would not. If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth, so what? Ultraviolet radiation is good for life. It’s powerful energy. It promotes mutation, change. Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation. Many others will die out. Do you think this is the first time that’s happened?
Think about oxygen. Necessary for life now, but oxygen is actually a metabolic poison, a corrosive glass, like fluorine. When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on earth. Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas. Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life. Nevertheless, life on earth took care of itself. In the thinking of the human being, a hundred years is a long time.
A hundred years ago we didn’t have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines. It was a whole different world, but to the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can’t imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven’t got the humility to try.
We’ve been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we’re gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
RUSH: Nor would the earth miss President Obama. Charlton Heston, at his request, reading the foreword to Jurassic Park.
If you don’t listen to Rush Limbaugh, I encourage you to start listening to his show. If you’re not able to listen because you’re at work or otherwise busy during his show’s broadcasting, go to his website to read the transcripts of the show.
You may not agree with everything he thinks and says, but I guarantee you’ll be entertained and you’ll be surprised how much Rush will open your eyes and help you become better informed about our nation’s history, our government and its personal agendas, and other topics of discussion. He’s not a Republican nor a Democrat: he’s a conservative. He’ll take members of both primary political parties to the wood shed if he feels it’s warranted.
I was a Girl Scout leader for seven years, and the girls and leaders in our troop talked often about how we needed to be less wasteful and be more aware of how our actions affect others. I emphasized the philosophy of frugality and the abhorrence of conspicuous consumption. The girls in my troop, and thousands like them around the world, were involved in fun, upbeat learning activities to not be careless, shallow wastrels with our limited resources. And not just on Earth Day.
We don’t need the government for that, Mr. President.
Related “Earth stuff” reading:
Jeffrey Jena, Big Hollywood: Beware the Earth Day Scam
Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin: Eco-hypocrite of the week and The Thrilla in Vanilla: Gore vs. Gingrich in Global Warming ‘Showdown’?
Christopher C. Horner, Big Government: Climate Alert: “We Must Substantiate Planet Warming!”
Mark Steyn, NRO: The End of the World as We Know It
Mark Knoller, CBS News Political Hotsheet: Obama Earth Day Flights Burned More Than 9,000 Gallons Of Fuel
The Underground Conservative: More Global Warming Hysteria
Michelle Malkin: Humans make Earth Day better and Obama’s weather czar: Goodbye, thermostat control. Hello, “climate geoengineering” and Eco-fuzzy math: Debunking a cap-and-trade debunking and Spain’s green jobs boondoggle
BlackInformant.com: Oh! It was Earth day yesterday and Starving people in Africa? Fuhgetabout it. I’m just glad we’re saving the planet
Steven Milloy, Human Events: 10 Questions for Al Gore
Iain Murray, OpenMarket.org: Kids Know a Bucket of S**t When They See One
Founding Bloggers: You Have To Burn Fuel To Save Fuel – Obama Does His Part For Earth Day
Peace and Freedom Global Future: Democrats, Gore called “Cowards,” Won’t Allow Non “Climatista” In Same Hearing With Gore and “Mister Green” Obama Flies To Iowa on Gas Guzzling Jet To Visit Wind Factory On Earth Day
John T. Simpson, Big Hollywood: Earth Day: Then They Came for the Overweight
Northern Thoughts and Reflections: Not Getting It; Obama loses touch with reality, supporting Turkey’s EU push
Pirates! Man Your Women: The Arrogance of Man
The Hill: On Earth Day, Obama pushes carbon cap
SteynOnline: Happy Earth Day!
Vets On The Watch: Greenie Weenies: Not Just Scrubbing Pads Any More
Conservative Warrior: Earth Day Shmirth Day
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Obama’s new weather czar: Global warming is so dire that we may start shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays!
Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney: Come Fly With Me | Obama’s Broadway date and Eco-Hyprocrisy
Radio Vice Online: Global Warming officially rebranded “Climate Change” and My goodness, the Sun determines the earth’s temperature?
Breitbart.tv: Obama Uses Earth Day to Push Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program
FromThePen.com: Al Gore Global Warming Poem: The Gore’s Prayer
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This “administration”, and the left wing money grabbers, setting up an exchange in Chicago to trade “cap and trade” money should send a signal,
“red flag” to any American that has been paying attention to the internet, conservative talk radio, or conservative TV.
This administration will attempt to pass this bill, and your energy bills will go thru the roof while someone on the Chicago Exchange, hooked up with Obama will make money hand over fist.
This administration is not American, it is the mafia.
Be aware of the guys/girls behind the curtain.
There is a large overlap between people who reject evolution, believe the earth is thousand of years old (not billions) and reject anthropogenic climate change.
No reputable climate scientist in the world believes that there has not been a warming trend over the last few decades. A small percentage believe that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that this is caused by humans.
Rush Limbaugh has made a career (and a large fortune) out of telling people lies that they want to hear. It always saddens me when people succeed in twisting the truth to make a trap for fools.
Your first paragraph is puzzling. I do not reject evolution, do not reject that the climate of Earth has changed over millions of years (like a swinging pendulum), but I do reject that the human race can impact climate. If that were indeed true, why do areas have drought? Why do areas get hit with devastating hurricanes or tornadoes? If we can impact climate, then why is it only the very taxable “global warming” kind and not the “global cooling” kind of climate change. With impacting comes an assumption, even the tiniest, of control. It’s laughable that people think we have that kind of power… we don’t.
Since ten million-plus people, including myself, listen to Rush Limbaugh frequently, would you please cite just a couple of the many lies you say he has told? If I am indeed “a fool in a trap,” your words of caution are empty if you cannot supply a few examples. Or, we may just think your accusations are as trustworthy as those of Nancy Pelosi saying that the CIA told her lies, heaven forbid (they’ve asked for proof, just like I’m asking you for proof – crickets chirping). You obviously have not listened ever (or much) to Rush: the topics on each show is taken straight from headlines news and then gives his opinion on what he spotlights. How does one lie about what is in the headline news? How does someone lie about their opinion?
I’m pretty confident that the liberal trolls who listen to his show on behalf of the DNC would make mincemeat of him in the press if he were telling any lies at all. Don’t you think the Democrat party and MSM are keeping close tabs on all conservative talk radio hosts, hoping to pounce on any of them and publicly humiliate them should they ever lie? So, any time you want to supply that list of “Rush Limbaugh lies,” I will be delighted, although surprised, to see it.
Yes, Rush has made a fortune, not from telling lies, as you are quick to state (although, again, please supply us with just a few of those lies that he’s told – should be easy, since you say he’s told so many). He’s made a fortune from his high listenership, a case of supply and demand, the free market at its finest. His salary is comparable to that of the above-average sports figure, Tom Cruise, or Simon Cowell. You make it sound like being paid what the market is willing to pay a person is something to be despised. Sounds like a socialist mentality, actually… Also, since Rush owns the EIB radio network, from that salary, he pays his license fees, broadcast charges, employees’ salaries, etc. So his take-home pay is much less. But yes, you’re right, he still earns a handsome sum… just like every successful person in entertainment does. Why does that bother you so much?
I think most people do not reject the concept of climate change. I think most reject the arrogant nonsense that man is big enough to have impacted climate change. And 31,000 respected scientists think so, too. None of them have said that climate doesn’t change. It appears that you are manipulating language here.
First of all, thank you for posting my first comment, it is refreshing that you chose not to censor me for disagreeing with you.
I don’t believe I accused you of rejecting evolution or of believing the earth is relatively young, but if you look at polling data, can you really deny that members of the Republican Party are
a) more likely to reject anthropogenic climate change than say members of the Democratic Party or Independents
b) are more likely to embrace a view that the earth is thousands not billions of years old;
c) and are more likely to support creationism than Dems or Independents
Remember the ranks of the Republic Party (and Conservatism) are swollen with evangelical Christians. In other words, a large percentage of the people who agree with you in rejecting anthropogenic global warming do not have a very good track record when it comes to thinking about scientific issues.
Would you agree?
Second, being able to have an effect on climate and being able to control the weather are not the same thing at all. You personally may not be able to build a house, but I’m confident you could burn one down.
You undermine your argument with questions like: “Why do areas have drought?” Surely you must be aware that drought is a deficiency in water supply and that modern farming practices can and do manipulate the land (sometimes for good, sometimes for ill) to make the land farmable or help turn it into a region where drought prevails (google “Dust Bowl” for a history lesson on this).
Do you also reject that lead in gasoline and paint have a damaging effect on the mental development of children? How about CFC’s, do you believe that their production and relaease damages the ozone layer?
Do you doubt that if humans exploded tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, that it would have a dramatic effect on the planet?
You give the human race too little credit.
As to Mr. Limbaugh, you’re wrong about my not having listened to him. I’ve listened to him hundreds of times. The first time I listened to him was the first time I heard him lie. That lie was: “there’s no such thing as date rape, it’s boy meets girl”
His most oft repeated lie is “only the rich pay taxes.” You can find that lie right on his website.
One of the most recent lies I’ve heard is: “there’s not a shred of evidence to support global warming”. Even if you reject it, it is a bold faced lie to say there is not a shred of evidence.
The market sometimes rewards people who harm society. You can get rich purifying water or selling pornography. The market does not, necessarily financially reward those who contribute the most, protecting the county in uniform pays a small fraction of one percent of what telling lies on the radio can bring.
Do you find it at all ironical that Rush Limbaugh, the de facto head of the Republican Party is a thrice divorced, drug addict?
Don’t outsource your thinking to Rush, you have a mind, use it.
And surely you must be joking about “31,000 respected scientists”. Who respects them and why? The plurality of them have a BS or less, which stands for more than just a bachelor of science. How many of them have Ph D in a field related to climate science? If any unemployed loser living in his parent’s basement, who claims to have a BS of any kind from any where can add their name to this list of “respected scientists” what is it worth?