I had fun sampling Rush Limbaugh in the latest Point of Inquiry (around minute 3:30), as he stunningly suggests to Andy Revkin: "Why don't you just go kill yourself, and help the planet by dying?" First, for the original clip of Rush's extremism in all its glory, listen here:
I couldn't resist asking for Revkin's response to Limbaugh, which came at around minute 13:00 of the show. Revkin first set the stage for Rush's performance as follows:
I was speaking about three very tricky things: population growth, United States consumer habits, and climate--in one riff. I was participating via video hookup with a Wilson Center event, and basically I said, "Look, if you're going to go with the whole carbon-centric meme, and we'll have carbon credits for this, that, and the other, and you live in America, where we're heading from 300 million to 400 million people in the next ...
