As IF Times

link Our own extinction is forecast, but he’s going by dead reckoning | Herald Sun.

For the benefit of those 3 people hanging on to every pronouncement from this Professor Frank Fenner guy, the forecast of imminent extinction of homo sapiens is actually great news.  I can’t even begin to enumerate the useless industries that will go to zero and the corresponding businesses that will emerge as a result.

Firstly and foremost, the whole bustling business of global warming will collapse.  Since the end is only a hundred or so years out, there’s no need to preserve the planet, man won’t be around anyway.  Of course the immediate impact will be to thrust thousands upon thousands of lawyers and politicians out of work since we won’t need laws to protect the environment.  Sadly, protest sign makers and people who make a living transporting protesters back and forth will see their businesses go extinct as well.

The entire tax system can be revamped since no longer will we have to ding people to pay for infrastructure.  Existing bridges and roads will probably last most of the way to the next hundred years and if not, it won’t matter.  The real estate market may suffer a bit since no one will bother to buy something that will have no demand in a finite time.  The exception of course is waterfront property.  Even with the clock ticking, people still want the ocean view.  The banking business will go to zero, since no one’s going to bother to repay any loans.  The smart guys will try to get 110 year no interest mortgages with a balloon payment at the end.

While the first thought is that society will become more hedonistic and violent since a finite end is in place, the opposite may be true.  The religion racket will be huge since with everyone rushing to get to the next place, they’ll all want to get as good a spot as possible.  Naturally, all kinds of programs will be sold to allow people to get those coveted positions.  Living a benign life will probably score you some good spots in the next one.   Of course, there will always be those that won’t comply with the civility expected by society, but rather than having to waste time and  money incarcerating them, they’ll just all be shot.  Who has time to look after miscreants when the end is just over the horizon?

The popular obsessions  of navel gazing and celebrity worship will end along with the inane TV shows dedicated to them.  We won’t care about Tiger’s 24th love child or Kim Kardashian’s new diet. No more Ryan Seacrest. Everyone will be more focused on self amusement, not just in the prurient way, but in pursuits that really matter to themselves.  Golf will never be more popular.  Liquor sales will skyrocket.

History books and all manner of scholarly archives can be ignored since they will all be irrelevant.  Think of all the libraries and museums that can be emptied out and converted to low income housing.  The professions of archaeologists and historians will become effete pastimes like macrame or flower pressing since there is no need to discover where we came from.  Fortune telling may suffer a bit as well since “you have a bright future” is off the table.

The best thing that will happen is that we will not have to listen to the bleatings of professional doomsayers and handwringers anymore like this Fenner guy and of course Al, buy a waterfront home because water levels will rise, Gore.  Ok they were right, shut up already.

link ‘Follow the Islamic way to save the world,’ Charles urges environmentalists | Mail Online.

If there was ever an argument against in-breeding as well as allowing your kids to live at home unemployed,  the Prince of Wales would be exhibit A.  Sequestered from reality as he has been for his entire adult life, his tenuous link to the lives of actual people appears to have severed entirely.  Unless what he says is reflective of his loyal subjects, which would be a tragedy of another order completely.

For now, let’s just assume that his recent pronouncements reflect only his personal mangled sense of reality.  Everyone makes mistakes in judgement but the combining of two ludicrous ideas into one  pronouncement places our Charles into the express lane of fantasy living.  Even with all the recent revelations about climate change,  which should make any thinking person skeptical about the charade of global warming, our hero decides to double down on his delusion and now claims that the Muslim faith is a green movement and that their protocols and traditions should be emulated by the west.  It’s not as if anyone actually hangs on his every utterance, but sadly he does represent England and is the formal face of his subjects.

HRH must think that he still lives in a time a few hundred years ago when the pronouncements of insane people aka royals, were edicts to be followed.  Newsflash to our man, we now have information not filtered by the royal information bureau.   In a nutshell, HRH opines that we should all follow the Muslim way in order to save the world.  To be fair, from this small article, it’s not clear whether he states that the Muslim faith is exclusive in its planet friendly approach or if it is one of many.  If the former, does that mean all other faiths are tacitly encouraging global grief by their particular beliefs? Is he really saying that to save the world, we should all be on our knees facing Mecca six times a day? Someone should remind him that he would be the head of the Church of England should he ever be crowned.  Would he dismantle the church pews and instead have prayer rugs installed?

It’s one of the truths of life that those who proclaim that money isn’t everything actually have lots of it.  A guy like Charles who has lived a life virtually in bubble wrap is exhorting people to live the comparatively ascetic lives of Muslims.  This from a guy who has never wanted for food, shelter, a good table in a restaurant or even worn out a pair of shoes in their entirety.  Is he really saying that the accomplishments of civilization are an affront to nature?  Are the advancements in science, technology and medicine which have flourished over the past 100 years in western society all just plain bad for the planet?  Stick to fox hunting Charles, leave the deep thinking to those with life accomplishments. 

It’s no wonder his mother, The  Queen won’t relinquish the margarine hat to her son!  In fact if Charles is going to insist on saying insane things, then long live the queen!