Environmentalism Highjacked: How Saving the Planet Became Collectivizing the People

The Woodward Report ^ | April 26, 2010 | Jack Curtis

[thisisthetime]

Once upon a time, there were people who loved the earth; they saw that it is beautiful and bountiful and just right for us. They saw too that while we grew numerous on its bounty (and our own hard work) a bunch of us were carelessly trashing it.

They organized to be heard, pointing to the truth known to life from ants up: trashing your own nest is a bad practice. They told us not to throw junk from car windows and to repair and replant the land after strip-mining. They said: “Don’t dump chemicals into the streams; don’t clear the land of all growth when harvesting trees; don’t net so many shiploads of fish that the species vanishes.” Summing up, they said to be prudent, careful and respectful of our planet home; we will need it for a long time. The lazy and the careless grumbled but couldn’t argue with plain sense; peoples’ behavior improved where there was wealth to pay for the extra effort and where people were close enough to the land to see the need, though not everywhere. But the teaching progressed.

Other people, early 20th century collectivists, rode the disorganization following industrialization under governmental mismanagement and the desolate aftermath of resulting wars into control of much of the world’s population: National Socialist Germany, National Fascist Italy, the Soviet Socialist Republics and satellites, the Peoples’ Republic of China and others were all collectivist states advertising and often working to export socialism of various stripes. Sympathizers existed in other European countries, the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere, working to bring collectivism and its benefits to their own countries. However, the second half of the century spotlighted both the inhumanity of the necessarily dictatorial collectivists and their total failure to build an adequate economy...

[Pollster1]

I know a lot of sincere, well-informed people who love the earth and nature. Almost all of them are conservatives.

[Uncle Miltie]

If I point out that Watermelons are green on the outside and red on the inside, does that make me a racist?

[I still care]

Excellent.