Posted on 04/23/2014 2:50:11 PM PDT by rightwingerpatriot
If you didn't realize it, yesterday was Earth Day. Founded back in 1970, this event was created to foster support for environmental protection. (Coincidentally, it's also the day communists celebrate the birthday of Vladimir Lenin.) Chances are you saw some news reports on the joys of recycling and other such fluff. Personally, I find such Earth Day nonsense quite tiresome as the environmental movement went from wanting to stop pollution to full-tilt insane in a few decades.
One of the Earth Day consequences that we have is the EPA, which liberals and eco-nuts will gleefully remind us was signed into law by Richard Nixon. However, one of the most pertinent facts that liberals leave out of their diatribes is that, at the time, such an organization was needed. I was born in 1970 and remember how pollution was much more a fact of life when I was a child. As God gave us the Earth, it serves us to be good stewards of our charge. I do not want pollution fouling the water or the air, and I believe in protect nature as best as possible. However, unlike the environment nuts of today, I don't put nature above human lives.
The fact is that environmentalists were quite successful. They preached to us to not waste or pollute, and we have modified our society to accommodate that. This success had an unintended consequence for eco-nuts. What to do when they actually win? The answer is that they latched onto an even more religious zeal to promote uber-environmentalism. No longer was it good enough to stop pollution, we now had to stifle all development, lest the smallest creature or plant in Gaia's domain be injured.
That leads us to the sad state of affairs today. The EPA is out of control, going after people who put an artificial pond on their own property that local and state officials have no environmental impact at all. People are not allowed to build on their property due to some nebulous definition of wetlands. The timber industry in the Northwest has been gutted to the fact that entire forests are now off limits to being harvested. (I guess nobody told environmentalists that wood is a renewable resource.)
Our energy industry is under attack. Coal, oil, and nuclear power are being stopped by rampant lawsuits and dire predictions of environmental catastrophe. The latest blow is that President Obama delayed the Keystone Pipeline yet again due to that an eco-loon, billionaire Tom Steyer, pledge $100 million to liberal candidates if Obama would do so.
What is frustrating is that these environmental whack jobs are not pro-nature as much as they are anti-human. They are utter hypocrites as they rail against power and technology, but gladly live in a country where they take advantage of such benefits. They'll blog about the evils of the oil industry from their iPads while sipping lattes in an air-conditioned Starbucks. Yet for many in the world, they exist without power or running water. They yearn to reap the benefits of having electricity and the healthy, modern level of living that we enjoy here in the West. Yet when some project is proposed to build a new power plant or dam a river to generate power, these environmental idiots come out in full force, decrying the proposed plans and shutting them down. They then retreat to their comfortable existence while those who have to live in the primitive areas are forced to live in squalor and disease.
I saw a report the other day that blew my mind. It stated that 20 million children in India have schools that have no restrooms. India has a huge health problem in that many people defecate in the streets due to a shocking lack of plumbing. Yet this is the world that extreme environmentalists want us to live in. They value a single plant over the health and well being of a child. Millions can die from malaria that could be ended if DDT is brought back, but these sick people would rather weep tears over a baby seal over the deaths of small children.
What’s interesting is the EPA has greenlighted Keystone XL pipeline more than once. It’s the State Department that’s holding it up. Even the most extreme environmentalists at EPA want the pipeline because they know hauling the stuff by rail is a far worse alternative.
Shock of shocks, EPA is the reasonable one in this argument. And the project got a “Present” vote from Obastard, until after the election. This has rotted on his desk the whole time he’s been Resident. “No decision!” is a “No!” decision on this. The unions are getting impatient.
I may have missed it, but when is “Private Property Rights Day?”
I celebrated Earth Day the way I have every day since 1993... I burn a tire.
Did you at least roast an endangered species over it?
we are at a point at which if you have any doubts about global warming, then you are in favor of despoiling the environment. why is this? why do liberals put everyone on the defensive on this?
I agree. I am an environmentalist. I recycle and drink purified water. Clean air and water are important to me. However those simple reasonable efforts have been pushed aside by leftists hellbent on political goals.
Forgot all about it. I’ll throw some extra wood in the fire pit this weekend.
There is no way to stop this kind of thing beyond giving them a kind but firm butt kicking and sending them to the unemployment line.
Good story! I have horror tales of my dealings with the epa. They didn’t like us as a small, privately-owned company, and they tried non-stop to force us to sell to a big company. But I beat them every time. Always in compliance, etc..
“If Liberals think Conservatives want to let eeeeevvviiilll corporations pollute the environment, just wait until the millions Mexicans coming set up squatters camps at beaches and National and State parks around the country.”
Anyone who has been to Bear Mountain State Park in NY on a weekend can attest to that; I’ve been hiking there at sunrise when it is gorgeous, and leaving at noon when it is trashed - paper plates smeared with hot sauce and cups blowing in the wind, absolutely filthy...
“...all these immigrants aren’t going to be too keen on paying the Social Security for a bunch of old white childless spinsters so they can sit around and throw birthday parties for their pets.”
Absolutely; they’ve already made it clear that they are not here to kick in to the common till. At least they’ll do something productive with those dogs when their spinster owners die; they need them to train their fighting dogs for the ring...
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