http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2012/03/global_warming_and_national_suicide.html
Rael Jean Isaac, Editor of OUTPOST the publication of Americans for a Safe Israel has written extensively about social movements in the United States. Her latest book is Roosters of the Apocalypse, from which this article is excerpted. She is author of The Coercive Utopians: Social Deception by America’s Power Players in 1984, the first book to trace the radicals’ entry into mainstream America and the agenda to destroy industry and capitalism. Also,Madness in the Streets : How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill, and many books and monographs on Israeli politics and the many groups including Jewish and mainline churches with an anti-Israel agenda……rsk
“Beginning in 1856, the Xhosa tribe in today’s South Africa destroyed its own economy. They killed an estimated half-million of their own cattle (which they ordinarily treated with great care and respect), ceased planting crops, and destroyed their grain stores. By the end of 1857, between thirty and fifty thousand Xhosa had starved to death — a third to a half of the population. The British herded survivors of the once-powerful tribe into labor camps, and white settlers took much of their land, as reported by Richard Landes in Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience.
The Xhosa had acted on the prophecy of a fifteen-year-old girl who promised that if they destroyed all they had and purified themselves of “witchcraft” (including evil inclinations and selfishness), the world before the white invaders came would be restored. The British oppressors would flee, and the Xhosa ancestors would return, bringing with them an even greater abundance of cattle and grain.
Do you feel a mixture of pity and contempt for these strange people who ruined themselves on the basis of an outlandish vision? If so, the feeling is misplaced. Just as the basis for the Xhosa economy was cattle, the lifeblood of our economy is energy. And we are strangling our own energy supply on the basis of an apocalyptic prophecy that has no more validity than the one that sent the Xhosa into self-immolation.
The apocalyptic vision to which we subscribe has a superficial scientific gloss — “climate change” — but at bottom, both visions prescribe economic suicide, and both promise that self-sacrifice will bring about a golden age. In the case of the Xhosa, that golden age was the time before the British invaded. In our own, to quote famed environmentalist David Brower (director of the Sierra Club and then of Friends of the Earth), it’s “back there about a century when, at the start of the Industrial Revolution we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.”
