Eco-Freaks "Scared" of Their Own Agitprop at TED

One of the hallmarks of the looney left is the absoluteness of its pessimism. In spite of their arrogant assertions that they have all the answers, in the next breath, our lefty friends will tell you we're all doomed anyway. Take for example a wealthy nutcase, speaking at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), California's annual conference of airheaded loopsters. Or, as the Wikis write, TED "describes itself as a 'group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value.'" Wowser, they must all be rich Democrats, because the rest of us are so "unremarkable."

But we digress. At this year's TED, it seems like the Goracle has got one of those very special, nay, remarkable people spooked:

...few conference goers were prepared for venture capitalist John Doerr to choke up with emotion as he kicked off the second day of talks on Mar. 9.

"I'm scared," he told the audience, looking down at his 15-year-old daughter in the front row. "I don't think we're going to make it."

Doerr issued a passionate call to action for everyone to make environmental concerns their "next big thing." As one of several positive examples, he praised Wal-Mart for making great moves to address what he called the three largest energy drains in business—heating and cooling systems, lighting, and refrigeration. The giant's initiative forced its 60,000 suppliers to focus on environmental issues as well, he said.

"Going green is the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century," said Doerr, who through his venture firm's Greentech initiative is investing in the sector. Although much attention has been focused on fighting global warming, Doerr offered a bleak assessment of these efforts. "I'm afraid it's not enough," he said.

So let's get this straight. Poor little rich boy is pushing no doubt unproven "green" solutions to the phony "global warming" crisis that are not going to be "enough." Guess that's how he got rich, eh, by throwing good money after bad. Or maybe this is just his version of the liberal guilt trip.

It is a distinguishing characteristic of today's looney left that they regularly engage their emotions as a substitute for reason rather than even attempt to use their badly atrophied brain cells to come up with actual solutions to real, not merely perceived, problems. And so here we have the spectacle of L. John Doerr, a billionaire who made his dough at Intel, intoning the left's latest mantra, "green" living, while sobbing bitterly that it will fail. Makes for a good evening of theater amongst the intellectualoids.

Doerr cites the three great "energy drains" of business: heating and cooling systems, lighting, and refrigeration. He complains that while the evil Wal-Mart is addressing his concerns in this area that, well, phooey, we're all going to die anyway. This is probably because human being, damn them, actually need heating and cooling systems, lighting, and refrigeration, not just the Great Satans at Wal-Mart. (Something Doerr never mentions.) So what's the use?

One of the reasons we at HazZzMat could never cotton to the Marxist left, as exemplified here by the eco-freak/"global warming" movement, is that they lead lives in a terminal state of despair. Address one problem and they'll have another one for you, even worse than the first. Alternating between tears and perpetual outrage, these are people have entirely lost the capacity for happiness, save when fantasizing about the assassination of Dick Cheney. Which is why their socialistic solutions to everything inevitably result not in happiness but in a universal distribution of despair, negativity, and failure.

We can just see poor Johnnie Doerr leaving the conference and quietly retiring to his multimillion $ California mansion, traversing its vast grounds in his fuel efficient Range Rover while pondering the effects of next month's immense heating, cooling, lighting, and refrigeration tally on the pitifully small family budget. Which will no doubt inspire him to take off in a Gulfstream jet to cut a vulture capitalist deal in New York next week that won't involve any of those greedy, fuelish Republicans who could care less about Mother Earth. He'll make them, and the rest of us pay. Count on it.