Answers.com defines dramatic irony as follows:

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The incongruity, of course, is that it is news to these people that environmentalism’s ultimate goal is to dismantle civilization and leave man to exist in Neolithic poverty, if at all. It’s like a train wreck in slow motion, to see them puzzle out the logical conclusions of the commands that they dare not examine.

First they demand we give up cars. Then they do the math and realize that we should actually give up cheeseburgers. Then it's on to a diet of a loose, flavorless (what with all the shipping for exotic spice), vegetable sludge. The inevitable conclusion is that we should stop eating altogether. I'm just amazed that they walked right up to that precipice and are now scratching their heads at the arrows directing them to leap off.

The thing that really gets me is how earnest they are about it – they actually believe that they can comply with the dictates of the green beast and yet still retain a functional civilization. They are giving up that civilization, piece by piece, because no matter how much they refuse to believe it, that is the core premise of environmentalism. And core premises will play out unless and until they are questioned and reversed. No amount of well-wishing can change that.

I watch, with a certain amount of fascinated horror, as the actors play out their prescribed roles, stumbling blindly into environmentalism’s grim designs. “Fascinated,” because it so sharply illustrates the truth of the principles in play – the ones I’ve been warning about. And “horror,” because it is real and it is happening.

To us.

-Inspector

I watched a show on Discovery that featured some farmers who've found out a potential way to eliminate a large portion of the methane "emissions" (production) from cattle. Basically they immunize the animals' against the thingy that is responsible for the methane. This also has the good side effect of causing the spare energy left over from what would become methane, to go to added meat or wool.

This may be besides the point but the reason I bring it up is that as a social barometer, if you were to bring this fact up to environmentalists, they would disregard it. They're not looking for solutions for mankind but solutions against it.

Not at all beside the point, that is the point.

It sounds a bit like the cows are actually sick, and that by curing them of the problem you actually make them more "producitve". The greens would rightly identify this as good old fashioned capitalism, and thus brush it aside.

When you try to meet your detroyer halfway, they will have nothing but contempt for you. How could they feel any differently about someone willing to kneel before them.

Yes, what Kriegsgefahrzustand said.

Great comment and I love the formulation. There is some really good stuff at this board.

I'm with Madmax, that's a great quote. Reminds me of Nietzsche.

Take heed, Kriegsgefahrzustand, your talents are noticed.

Stuff like that just comes out of him all the time. I encourage him to write, so that it gets recorded instead of lost.

If only someone would pay me. That's the kind of encouragment you can take to the bank. ;)