In the message broadcast on Friday, Mr. bin Laden veered away from his traditional vows to inflict death and destruction on the United States, and instead discussed climate change, globalization and monetary policy in a message that he said was directed to “the whole world.”
. . . . He faulted the United States for failing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, which sought to curb global warming by restricting greenhouse gas emissions
While I have been waiting for Andrew to weigh in on this latest convert to the warming issue, I have been enjoying snippets from the U.S. Conference of Mayors on CSPAN. Environmentalism has coopted black grievance as the primary urban agenda. Sure, there’s plenty of urban pork involved, and anti-capitalism, too, but I’d much rather see all these big city mayors paying lip service to sustainability than railing about social justice. And now here is OBL, desperately trying to make himself more relevant to the global elites. Consumer culture may eventually be the great global unifier, but at the moment, environmentalism is running a close second.
Sustainability and social justice go together like ham and eggs. Both are anti-capital and pro-pork.
A provincial or outer urban worker whose job was eliminated or under threat from environmentalism may have a different perspective. So may people locked out of the housing markets, or paying wildly inflated rents, due to restrictions on supply of land for housing on “environmental” grounds.
Hahaha! That is great. I wonder why the MSM didn’t report it?
Perhaps if OBL is truly concerned about AGW, he could discourage his acolytes from blowing up large planes, trying to blow up large planes, and flying large planes into extremely large buildings. I’m sure the carbon footprint is ghastly.
Ham is pro-pork?
(Sorry!)
@Le Mur
In one strict culinary sense, pork may be pro-ham.