The big international news of the day is the death of North Korea’s despot, Kim Jong Ill (yes, the obligatory “no longer ill, just dead”). The Communist regime that has controlled the country since the ’40s with its Stalinist command and control can easily be seen from space at night as the image to the left shows. No, not the area at the bottom of the image – the top one. The bottom one is of South Korea.
The difference between the two is the source of the title – the North is the essence of the State controlled economy; yes, the technocrats in the State’s bureaucracy have the power to completely decide how to allocate all resources to “perfect society”. Hey, a utopia! Sure it is – the State says it is!
Me? I guess I must be stupid – I’d rather be in the area where there’s all that light. After all, lights mean energy, commerce, energy, and a lifestyle that demands that the light be present. It also means that all that stuff means money – the financial grease to make it all go.
So, why is it that the enviromentalist driven EPA wishes to grab more and more control over how our energy is produced? After all, the more they keep ratcheting up standards for pollution, the more expensive energy will cost (and we are already seeing the early effects of Obama’s promise to “necessarily see electricity costs skyrocket”). Frankly, I think that the EPA has no concern at all for the Law of Diminishing Returns until they finally reach their utopia of an actual pollution free United States.
At which point, some other country’s space based camera will show the United States looking just like North Korea…
…for the environmentalists and the EPA will have changed us to their command and control system….just like North Korea. 
(H/T: picture from RedState, chart from The Corner)
