The Liberal Project Bumps into an Ecological Wall (Part I)

One of the hallmarks of the ongoing Liberal catastrophe that we’re all experiencing is its inability to respect the natural boundaries and barriers of human existence. For example, we all know that by flooding our society with alien peoples and thereby ignoring the natural boundaries of identity that we are consigned to live in societies that have less trust and an ever dissolving social fabric. Moreover, we also know that by violating these boundaries of identity that we can expect the Liberal system to experience convulsions of anger, however incoherent, from the body of our own people as they slowly become aware of the dissolution that’s been planned for them.

And just as the battle intensifies between the Liberal system and our people’s incoherent desire for life, ecological walls begin to loom over the horizon. From America’s paper of record just a few weeks ago: Arid Australia Sips Seawater, but at a Cost

Take a moment to read the article.

If I may briefly summarize the situation, the Liberal system has planned for Australia to become an overpopulated stew of various peoples that will require more fresh water than what the arid continent can supply in the long-term. The system’s solution to Australia’s next water crisis is not to plan for a sustainable society that aims to bring population levels in line with what the land can support but instead build more expensive desalination plants and pass off the costs (some of them unintended) to the natives.

As you might imagine, some are starting to suspect that mindlessly growing Australia through an endless wave of immigration (sound familiar) might not be such a good idea after all. From the NYT article:

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But desalination is also drawing fierce criticism and civic protests. Many homeowners, angry about rising water bills, and environmentalists, wary of the plants’ effect on the climate, call the projects energy-hungry white elephants. Stricter conservation measures, like mandating more efficient washing machines, would easily wring more water from existing supplies, critics say.

Desalination has also helped dampen the enthusiasm for a “big Australia,” the previous, immigration-friendly government’s projection that the country’s population will rise to 36 million in 2050, from 22 million now.

“Big waste of money,” said Helen Meyer, 65, a retired midwife in Tugun, the town where the northeastern state of Queensland opened a $1 billion desalination plant last year. “It cost a lot of money to build, and it uses a lot of power. Australia is a dry country. I think we just have enough water for 22 million people. What are we going to do when we’re up to 36 million?”
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That’s what I call game, set, and match for the natural order of life on this planet.

The Liberal system and the ideology that fuels it is so far removed from the natural order of things that it will come crashing down this century. Even if the natural life affirming instincts of our people fail (and I think they largely have) ecological walls will start to loom large this century for which there is no answer other than what the Liberal system refuses to do. To wit, how can a Liberal economic system built around the concept of endless growth answer the limits of nature? It can’t.

In my opinion, the politics of the revolutionary Right must capitalize on this fundamental failure and present a vision of a sustainable Western society that is in harmony with itself and the world around it. As the ongoing crises of resource scarcity continue to rock the politics of the 21st century I think you can expect the wind to be at our backs with such a vision.

Posted by Notus Wind on Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 01:32 PM in
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