The March Of The New Luddites

IDB reports:

Time magazine just published a prescription for "surviving global warming."

It listed 51 things we can do, including:

• Building bamboo fences.

• Using clotheslines instead of dryers.

• Turning thermostats to 82.4 degrees in the summer.

• Making only right turns to save idling in left-turn bays.

• Taking fewer trips on "carbon-spewing" jetliners.

• Wearing clothes from the thrift store.

• Raking instead of blowing leaves.

• Bringing your own cup to Starbucks.

• Bringing a cloth bag to the check-out to tote your groceries.

• Collecting rainwater.

• Living in a 100-square-foot shack.

We kid you not. This is all penance for our "carbon sins."

Time gushed over one greenhouse gasbag from Northern California who felt so "guilty about the size of his residential carbon footprint" that he squeezed himself into a 100-square-foot hobbit hole.

Jay Shafer thinks we consume too much energy in our "McMansions," so he'd like you to join him. Not in his hobbit hole, of course (he admits he can hardly find room for his clothes), but one he'll design for you. The former art professor (what a surprise) runs Tumbleweed Tiny House.

Meanwhile, Al Gore dreams of a "carbon-free economy" where we're all riding bicycles to the windmill factory. As part of his "Global Marshall Plan" to save the Earth, he proposes "completely eliminating the internal combustion engine."

The New Dark Ages.