Gewaltige Veränderungskräfte werden ihnen zugeschrieben, den Achtundsechzigern, im Guten wie im Bösen. Nüchtern betrachtet, zeigen sie sich als Teil einer ungleich mächtigeren und zugleich profaneren Bewegung – einer Bewegung, gegen die Widerstand zwecklos war und die doch von allen gleichermaßen verachtet wurde, von den protestantischen Bildungsbürgern ebenso wie hernach von den zum Marxismus konvertierten Antiautoritären: die Konsumgesellschaft. Das magische zweite Drittel der 60er Jahre fußte im wesentlichen auf der Befreiung des (jungen) Individuums durch die Freiheit des Konsums. Der Minirock war, wie man ja sah, nicht bloß ein Kleidungsstück: Er war der Beginn einer Individualisierung durch gleichberechtigte Teilhabe am Markt.

Leser, die vielleicht denken mögen, es handele sich bei dieser Anküdigung um eine leere Drohung der Industrie - und nicht etwa um eine fast unausweichliche Konsequenz energiepolitischer Selbstzerstörung -, also solchen Lesern rate ich, die Gründe für die Schließung des Bochumer Nokia Werks zu studieren:

Europe’s steelmakers warned the European Commission on Tuesday that production and jobs would move abroad to less environmentally demanding locations if Brussels did not amend radical plans to fight climate change.

Philippe Varin, president of the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries (Eurofer), said proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions due out on Wednesday would put his industry at a big competitive disadvantage compared to Chinese, Russian and U.S. rivals.

The Group of 77 developing nations, representing about two-thirds of the world’s population, said it is concerned that climate-protection laws will be used to curb their exports to rich nations.

“There are fears in the developing countries that the environment issue could be used as a new conditionality, as a new tool, for protectionism in the industrial world, which is losing its competitive edge in a number of areas,’’ Akram said in an interview Jan. 17.

If environmentalists were really concerned about people in undeveloped countries, they would be helping them to bring about what they really need: industrial development.

The world’s poorest can barely cope with day-to-day survival, let alone with unproven threats projected to occur over decades. Imagine having no electricity or access to clean drinking water. Imagine having to cook your meals over an open fire, breathing smoke and ash every day. Billions around the world survive at a subsistence level because they lack the elements of industrial capitalism that we in the developed world take for granted: power plants, factories, modern roads and hospitals, cars, refrigerators, and countless time- and labor-saving devices.

What poor countries need is not climate adaptation welfare doled out by environmentalists who oppose...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6WHdWgES-Uw

Mosques in Britain are more extreme than in Iraq, according to the country’s deputy prime minister. Dr Barham Salih claimed some mosques in Blackburn would be banned in Iraq for the extremist messages they preach. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=509698&in_page_id=1770

What occupies the mind of a jihad-driven Muslim? How is such fervor planted in young and impressionable believers? Where does it originate? How did I - once an innocent child who grew up in a liberal, moderate and educated household - find myself a member of a radical Islamic group? These questions go to the root of Islamic violence and must be addressed if free societies are to combat radical Islam. To further this aim, I will explore the psychological development of a jihadi’s mind through my own firsthand experience as a former member of a Muslim terrorist organization.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B1A28109-67CC-4F31-A04C-28C80E3B01C0

Muß Al Gore jetzt seinen Friedensnobelpreis wieder zurückgeben?

Following in the footsteps of an earlier study, government scientists on Tuesday said warmer oceans should translate to fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States.

The reason: As sea surface temperatures warm globally, sustained vertical wind shear increases. Wind shear makes it difficult for storms to form and grow.

“Using data extending back to the middle 19th century, we found a gentle decrease in the trend of U.S. landfalling hurricanes when the global ocean is warmed up,” Chunzai Wang, a physical oceanographer and climate scientist with NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami, said in a prepared statement.