{"id":435949,"date":"2010-03-16T09:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=7357"},"modified":"2010-03-16T09:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:21:51","slug":"from-point-of-inquiry-andrew-revkin-on-rush-limbaugh%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cwhy-don%e2%80%99t-you-just-go-kill-yourself%e2%80%9d-moment-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/435949","title":{"rendered":"From Point of Inquiry: Andrew Revkin on Rush Limbaugh\u2019s \u201cWhy Don\u2019t You Just Go Kill Yourself\u201d Moment | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had fun sampling Rush Limbaugh in the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/andrew_revkin_the_death_of_science_writing_and_the_future_of_catastrophe\/\">latest Point of Inquiry<\/a> (around minute 3:30), as he stunningly suggests to Andy Revkin: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just go kill yourself, and help the planet by dying?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First, for the original clip of Rush&#8217;s extremism in all its glory, listen here:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront.mediamatters.org\/static\/flash\/player.swf\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist asking for <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.pointofinquiry.org\/andrew_revkin_the_death_of_science_writing_and_the_future_of_catastrophe\/\">Revkin&#8217;s response to Limbaugh<\/a>, which came at around minute 13:00 of the show. Revkin first set the stage for Rush&#8217;s performance as follows:<span id=\"more-7357\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">I was speaking about three very tricky things: population growth, United States consumer habits, and climate&#8211;in one riff. I was participating via video hookup with a Wilson Center event, and basically I said, &#8220;Look, if you&#8217;re going to go with the whole carbon-centric meme, and we&#8217;ll have carbon credits for this, that, and the other, and you live in America, where we&#8217;re heading from 300 million to 400 million people in the next 30 or 40 years, why shouldn&#8217;t a family get carbon credits for having fewer kids?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">It was what I would call a thought experiment. And that got picked up by some right wing blog, and that got picked up by Rush Limbaugh, who I&#8217;m sure never saw the original video thing&#8230;.Just hearing the audio [of Limbaugh] is amazing. And of course I wrote a thorough critique of what he had said on DotEarth, and then he spent the next week nibbling, almost apologizing. Suicide is a realm you don&#8217;t go into, without having to draw a lot of ire from a lot of people who have actually experienced the loss of family members. So he almost apologized, but not quite.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, why apologize when you&#8217;re Rush Limbaugh?<\/p>\n<p>[For more Point of Inquiry, listen <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforinquiry.net\/mp3_stream\/myWimpy.html\">here<\/a>, or <a rel=\"nofollow\">subscribe here<\/a> via iTunes.]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/__7K2ao6sNQBH8RxyfYAe3Gd-I4\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/__7K2ao6sNQBH8RxyfYAe3Gd-I4\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/__7K2ao6sNQBH8RxyfYAe3Gd-I4\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/__7K2ao6sNQBH8RxyfYAe3Gd-I4\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/tVMJRTElTi0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had fun sampling Rush Limbaugh in the latest Point of Inquiry (around minute 3:30), as he stunningly suggests to Andy Revkin: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just go kill yourself, and help the planet by dying?&#8221; First, for the original clip of Rush&#8217;s extremism in all its glory, listen here: I couldn&#8217;t resist asking for Revkin&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}