In French, the name “Verne” refers to ferns—but Jules Verne was no green, at least not as we think of the word, in political terms, today. Verne did however, love the Earth, so much so that he wrote prodigiously about making it better for people.
Yet today, we see that the predominant faction of greens is not pro-people at all. Those greens are anti-growth, anti–standard of living, pro-depopulation. And they have burrowed deep into the bureaucracy, as the people of Los Angeles are discovering as they try to rebuild their burned-out city, only to hit the wall of the green regulatory regime.
But of course, every trend engenders a counter-trend, a backlash. Meet Donald Trump, the Scourge of Green. He is, after all, a real estate developer.
Jules Verne (1828–1905) would approve. The Frenchman’s oeuvre was inventing this and building that—environmental impact statements be damned. For instance, his novel Invasion of the Sea is premised on the geologic fact that parts of the Sahara Desert are below sea level; the plotline concerns digging a canal from the Mediterranean Sea to those basins, letting the waters flow forth, and creating an inland “Sahara Sea.”
No doubt a few lizards might have been drowned in the process, but the result would have been more gloire for France, as back then the Sahara was mostly a French colony. Yet even an anti-colonialist would have to admit that a Second Med would have greatly increased economic development for Africa by creating new seaports. (As well as, down the road a ways, new Club Meds.) […]
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