WSJ Economics Writer: Send All of America's Garbage to Ted Turner's Montana Ranch
by David Sassoon - Aug 15th, 2008
Many studies have shown that the environmental benefits from household recycling are minimal or at least highly exaggerated.....America is not in danger of ever running out of landfill to store our garbage......we could store all of America's garbage for the next century within the property of Ted Turner's ranch in Montana, with 50,000 acres undisturbed for the horse and bison.
Stephen Moore, senior economics writer, Wall Street Journal editorial board, 8/15/2008
There's a rumor floating around, unconfirmed, that Stephen Moore didn't get the nod from Mayor Bloomberg to run the NYC Sanitation Department so the Wall Street Journal hired him instead. Today he showed his mastery of trash talk in a piece called Gang Green that even colleagues at his own newspaper found tiresome.
In Environmental Capital, the paper's own blog, Keith Johnson gets sarcastic in his daily morning round-up of news called Green Ink.
Finally, for a change of pace, the WSJ edit page rants about environmentalism and a creeping nanny state.
For a change of pace. LOL.
It's a rant indeed, and when you go on a rant, your madness emerges for all the world to see. Here's another gem from Moore:
The environmental movement has morphed into the most authoritarian philosophy in America.
Let's wonder together where, say, changes to wiretapping laws fit into this senior economics writer's mental map of authoritarianism.
Of course, he takes a shot at global warming, and -- irony of ironies -- recycles a tired and blatantly false denialist talking point. Moore says that by taking climate action,
.....the best estimates are that we could reduce global temperatures by 0.1 degrees by 2050.
Good grief. He actually means his "favorite" estimate. He ignores inconvenient evidence -- like the Stern report which says doing nothing about climate change is by far the costliest option. Isn't Moore a senior economics writer?
No worries Mr. Turner. That stench of methane isn't going to be coming from your Montana ranch anytime soon. It's emanating from the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, and bothering even the horse and bison.
Wonder if we can capture it, and burn it.
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Ummm.. Do you dispute the
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Do you dispute the fact that we COULD put all of our waste on Ted Turner's land? I think that the point of the article is to reveal the absurdity of the notion that we are 'running out' of landfill space...
CSalt
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It's a silly argument. Many cities have already run out of landfill space and are trucking garbage long distances. Yes, we COULD truck garbage all the way to Ted Turner's ranch in Montana from New York City, say. You are right. We COULD.
We also COULD reduce the size of the waste stream by recycling.
I'd think the senior economic writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page would be able to pick the better alternative.
But not when he's on a rant.
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