Posts Tagged ‘geothermal power’
greenland has no green… »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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… and Iceland has no ice. Or money.
Iceland, in all its “we’re so hot we can run day-to-day on geothermal pipes” ways, is bankrupt. This, like the extinction of the panda, is long overdue. If any country deserves financial ruin, it’s Iceland.
Why, you ask, do I so loathe the Icelan-dicks (zing!)? Read this and this and come back. (The staff is off enjoying the fact we don’t live on a continental rift so you have time; no rush.)
All set?
So (for those lazy tools that didn’t read) basically…
- They adopted the American model of greed and imaginary money.
- They don’t realize we can’t even keep ourselves afloat with vast resources.
- They still believe in elves.
Neoconservatives have been forcing pure capitalism on people for decades (Chile, Russia, Iraq, etc) so I can forgive them the attempt at vacuous wealth. Believing there are tiny people disrupting construction projects, though, is a new level of idiot.
Iceland could have used their energy savings, invested in technology or education and lead the world in the new enviro-conscious age. Instead they’re one of the most noteworthy of the recession-related failures.
For a country where more than half the residents can’t deny small, pointy-eared people live in rocks, it’s no surprise they’d think they could manifest financial security by shear will. What’s our excuse?