Do liberals hate conservatives with such a passion that they actually want us all to die?
Before you answer, consider a December 22 op-ed published by the Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel authored by Dave Lindorff, "a 34-year veteran, an award-winning journalist, a former New York Times contributor, a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, [and] a two-time Journalism Fulbright Scholar."
In the piece entitled "Global Warming Will Save America from the Right...Eventually," Lindorff seriously made the case that the liberal bogeyman known as climate change has a huge potential political upside - conservatives in red states will be wiped out (emphasis added throughout, h/t NB reader Jessica):
The area that will by completely inundated by the rising ocean-and not in a century but in the lifetime of my two cats-are the American southeast, including the most populated area of Texas, almost all of Florida, most of Louisiana, and half of Alabama and Mississippi, as well as goodly portions of eastern Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. While the northeast will also see some coastal flooding, its geography is such that that aside from a few projecting sandbars like Long Island and Cape Cod, the land rises fairly quickly to well above sea level. Sure, Boston, New York and Philadelphia will be threatened, but these are geographically confined areas that could lend themselves to protection by Dutch-style dikes. The West Coast too tends to rise rapidly to well above sea level in most places. Only down in Southern California towards the San Diego area is the ground closer to sea level.
So what we see is that huge swaths of conservative America are set to face a biblical deluge in a few more presidential cycles.
Incredibly, this makes Lindorff happy, an emotion he appears interested in others sharing:
Then there's the matter of the Midwest, which climate experts say is likely to face a permanent condition of unprecedented drought, making the place largely unlivable, and certainly unfarmable. The agribusinesses and conservative farmers that have been growing corn and wheat may be able to stretch out this doomsday scenario by deep well drilling, but west of the Mississippi, the vast Ogallala Aquifer that has allowed for such irrigation is already being tapped out. It will not be replaced.
So again, we will see the decline and depopulation of the nation's vast midsection-noted for its consistent conservatism. Only in the northernmost area, around the Great Lakes (which will be not so great anymore), and along the Canadian border, will there still be enough rain for farming and continued large population concentrations, but those regions, like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois, are also more liberal in their politics.
Finally, in the Southwest, already parched and stiflingly hot, the rise in energy costs and the soaring temperatures will put an end to right-wing retirement communities like Phoenix, Tucson and Palm Springs. Already the Salton Sea is fading away and putting Palm Springs on notice that the good times are coming to an end. Another right-wing haven soon to be gone.
Can you imagine actually publishing something advocating "an end to right-wing retirement communities like Phoenix, Tucson and Palm Springs?" This coming from a 34-year veteran of journalism?
Are you kidding me?
In the end, it appears he's not kidding:
So the future political map of America is likely to look as different as the much shrunken geographical map, with much of the so-called "red" state region either gone or depopulated.
There is a poetic justice to this of course. It is conservatives who are giving us the candidates who steadfastly refuse to have the nation take steps that could slow the pace of climate change, so it is appropriate that they should bear the brunt of its impact.
I guess like the rest of his hate-filled ilk, Lindorff is either unaware or disingenuously forgetful of the fact that the Clinton administration - with the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore as vice president - chose not to put the Kyoto Treaty before Congress after the Senate - with many Democrats from blue states participating, mind you! - voted 95 to 0 - yes, Mr. Lindorff, ZERO! - demanding America NOT participate in those Protocols.
Which brings us back to the original question: do liberal journalists that consistently ignore facts do so because their hatred of conservatives is so strong that it blocks from neural receptors all truths found to be dogmatically inconveniently?
Just how much does one have to despise something to become so addle-minded, and once so afflicted, is there a possible cure, or is this a permanent condition once acquired?
