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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Enviro Chavez Just Saying It Like It Is

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:20 AM

Say what you want about about the man, but you can't argue with this...

"If the climate was a bank [the US] would already have saved it."

The US state as it functions today is not about making a better climate for human life but a better climate for business.

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Oh, Charles, at least spell the man's name right.

Posted by TVDinner

on March 7, 2013 at 7:37 AM

...said the man whose entire country's economy depended on selling as much oil as possible.

Posted by delirian on March 7, 2013 at 7:51 AM

Demagogue.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on March 7, 2013 at 7:52 AM

What @ 2 said. No one who profits on fossil fuels has anything legitimate to say on the subject. His observation may be true, but his words are a lie when he said them.

Posted by Matt from Denver on March 7, 2013 at 8:00 AM

My favorite postmortem remark so far comes from Guy Branum: "Fidel Castro took shits that dominated Latin American countries longer than Hugo Chavez."

Posted by gloomy gus on March 7, 2013 at 8:08 AM

Not to mention the repeated assassinations of indigenous environmentalist activists his administration was/is neck deep in. Yes it was nice to see a coup leader turned president spend the profits of exploiting his countries resources on buying off the very poor instead of the filthy rich but a climate warrior saint he was not (nor a socialist for that matter)

Posted by dutchie on March 7, 2013 at 9:04 AM

The fact that Chuck Mud or Goldy or whomever lionizes OOO-go, really speaks to the la-la land y'all live in up there in Strangerville.

You'd probably do the same for Hitler if we lived back-in-the-day (pfffft).

Stranger-fetishists take note.

Posted by GeneStoner on March 7, 2013 at 9:24 AM

As I read that statement, the metaphor reads that if climate were something that could be stored, ie, a bank, then the US has saved the climate with our natural parks and efficient technology.

Bad translation?

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on March 7, 2013 at 9:47 AM

Is he referring to the same banking and oil interests behind the cap n' trade scam? Nothing's being done about Hanford, the EPA-approved Corexit made the BP calamity worse, Monsanto is busily patenting nature, but the main goal here is to pay Al Gore carbon taxes...

Posted by Spindles on March 7, 2013 at 11:12 AM

Also really hypocritical considering how car-choked Caracas is. Isabel Allende started writing her first book when she was stuck in traffic.

Posted by keshmeshi on March 7, 2013 at 11:44 AM

BIG business, not all business.

Posted by very bad homo on March 7, 2013 at 12:24 PM

Said the guy who created an economic model that was unsustainable, rife with cronyism, and somehow left his country worse off than when he got there despite the world's biggest oil reserves.

Oh, and he was also in charge during the creation of the world's first vertical slum.

... dammit, I'm feeding the troll, aren't I?

Posted by jhops on March 7, 2013 at 3:28 PM