Scott ponders
...and, as Brad notes, it's unclear why the ozone hole closing up - after a set of regulations favored by environmentalists was put in place - should be embarrassing to environmentalists, but then maybe I lack Ann Coulter's deft reasoning abilities...
Man, this is like easy. The right wingers believe that the whole reason that environmentalists have for living is to simply make people's lives miserable. It isn't about an actual goal. It's all about inflicting suffering. So the fact that the ozone hole is closing simply removes one lever the environmentalists have to inflict their regime of suffering.
It's pretty much a religious line amongst all of the right. And it's no coincidence that this is essentially the central theme of pretty much all Ayn Rand's rants: the people who actually care about things are really the people who want to rip you off or inflict needless suffering for some unexplained reason.
It's a fucked up way of viewing the world and I've known far too many people who share this fucked up belief (I work with far too many of them as well). They simply have no soul left and simply can't imagine anyone who doesn't have greed and selfishness as their only motive in life.
ha