This last week I spent some time reviewing the various comments and letters that newspapers in the area have received about growth, the oil and gas industry, development and pretty much anything else that involves change.
What strikes one most about these comments is that they seem to be made by people who would label themselves as "progressives" which is the stealth term of the time for far left liberal. Some of the few things they actually seem to be in favor of are usually largely disproven junk science and backward looking energy technology.
While labeling themselves as progressives they have absolutely no interest in progress. Personally, I hope someday to live the Jetsons lifestyle, toaster bed and all.
But when constrained by the people who think that we need to have windmills on the top of our cars, that seems unlikely. I haven't quite figured out how people who claim to be so forward-looking have such antipathy towards technology and its development.
They love the unproven theories such as global warming and sonar harming whales but have no interest in verifiable statistics that nuclear energy is safer than practically anything we use to generate electricity. I'm still working on figuring out the psychology and precisely what they're afraid of in the future.
One thing is clear they have no faith in the ability of man to solve problems; only to create them.
