Wednesday, May 10, 2006
The problem with politics
I have a problem with politics. They seem to eat up most of my spare time these days. I spend a lot of time being angry at the candidates of various political parties. Ridiculous promises are being made, "Reykjavík airport will be relocated to a bunch of rocks in the ocean". Yippee! That's going to be cheap and really really practical, especially since the land is sinking and with global warming the oceans are rising. An increase of 1 degree in air temperature means that the ocean will rise approximately 1 meter. I wonder whether politics should be strictly limited to historians who can point out that off the coast of the city, that every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to control, there used to be a prosperous settlement. What happened? It SANK! Understandably the candidate of the B Party doesn't understand this.. maybe it's because he was too busy getting ahead in politics to finish his history degree. Maybe the B people have a cunning plan to stop global warming and thus reversing the effects of increasing temperatures on the oceans? That would actually be uber cool...but herein lies a problem; the B Party has worked really hard at increasing heavy industry in my beloved country. They seem to want to build polluting smelters in every fjord, making aluminum for the "lovely" people at Bectel in Iraq (if it means staying in power).
I am starting to think that they believe the Kyoto agreement represents some sort of Japanese positivism. Surely it has nothing to do with the nature terrorism these people are inflicting on the inhabitants and environment of my little island. Is it possible that the B Party has a new strategy of fighting fire with fire? Minus and minus in maths makes plus... maybe the B class ideologists and nature lovers plan to pollute as much as the Kyoto agreement allows and then some more. Maybe the only way of fighting global warming is with fire and maths? Surely the minuses will turn into plusses at some point and then they can build their airport on those rocks.
Nah-- I just think they're silly buggers on a power high.
Pace!
# posted by Björkin : 1:22 PM
