Articles by John McGrath
John McGrath is an intinerant student and sometimes reporter currently living in Toronto, Canada. He mainly writes about Canadian and International Politics from an energy and climate perspective
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A lifelong conservative questions his hatred of hippies
Via Glenn Greenwald, conservative and National Review contributor Rod Dreher's commentary on NPR is a must-hear (oral essay) on his disillusionment under the Bush Administration. Regarding Dave's hippie-bashing bashing lately, this part is especially relevant:
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Time for greens to get over their fear of big government
In a recent post, Ron Steenblik wrote:
Indeed, I am generally a skeptic of heavy-handed market manipulation.
A perfectly reasonable position for environmentalists in general to take, especially after the history of Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Corn, etc. using their power with the state.
Not to dump on Ron -- who only provided the most recent example of this general skepticism -- but greens in general need to get over their suspicion of the state; in particular, they need to move beyond the small-government, market-focused ideas deeded to us by some of our brightest lights (the Amory Lovinses of the world.)
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Coal and cars, two great tastes that … gack!
...you might want to hurt yourself:
"A clean car that runs on coal!"
A more appropriate headline:
"A car on coal. Run!"
