Day 1040: WALL-E

What did you think the right would say about Pixar’s WALL-E?  I’ll never understand why resource parsimony cannot be a tenet of conservatism.  It’s ok to mine the earth, create waste and expend energy as long as we do it in moderation.  If we want ourselves and our children to live long, healthy lives with a respect for the fact that the earth is limited in what it can make and handle and that the waste has to go somewhere on this planet, why is this then a liberal agenda and not a human agenda?  Waste bothers me (even and especially when I create it) because I measure capitalism in efficiency and waste is not efficient.  If the point is to make money now, irreducible excess and the future be damned, it will come to bite you in the butt in this lifetime, in the form of increasing pollution, crime and disease and decreasing health and quality of life.  What’s the roadblock to comprehension here? It all became clear to me on reading this post a...