Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists

pushback dot com ^ | 7-2005

[Foxfire4]

Here's a good rule of thumb:
If the "environmentalists" are for it, oppose it. If they're against it, support it.

Somebody on a mailing list I frequent posted his rules for dealing with environmentalists and their agendas, and said it's all about the shoes:

If they're barefoot, laugh at them.
If they're wearing boots, listen.
If they're wearing wingtips, shoot 'em and run.

Works for me.

[doug from upland]

I am sometimes barefoot and with suits I sometimes wear wingtips. Am I to be shot?

[antienvironmentalist]

Environmentalists need to be phased out. Quickly.

[aquila48]

This is a keeper!!

Thanks doug.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.<<

Nothing annoys me more than someone criticizing technology while flicking their Bic...

[fella]

Hmmmmm? ...................... The islam-a-nazies want to return to the 7th century but these eco-nazies want to return to the stone-age. No wonder they are fellow travelers. Samuel Butler foresaw this mindset over a hundred years ago when he published "Erewhon".

[dljordan]

"After a few weeks in a "Stone Age", these bozos would be begging for some hunters to protect them from the wolves and big cats..."

Exactly! I was a member of the Seirra Club and Earth First for a time in the 80's. These people are really living in another reality. I left shortly after one of the leaders (a girl from New York city) started lecturing me (a guy from rural Tennessee) on how I shouldn't kill Copperheads hiding in the woodpile. This idiot walked around wearing sandals in an area infested with copperheads and rattlers. That's great if you don't have anything else to wear but give me a pair of high-top boots anyday.

[Bernard Marx]

If they're wearing wingtips, shoot 'em and run.

I'd change it to:

If they're wearing Birkenstocks, shoot 'em and run.

[Finny]

"Fallen Angels" -- a book I apparently would enjoy! Who wrote it? I haven't heard of it ...

[LRS]

I love nature as much as the next guy, and don't mind if we "protect" some species and land. However, one of my sayings is "I'm glad my ancestors made it possible for my kids to wait at the bus stop in the morning and not have to worry about a saber tooth using them for a breakfast snack". Unbelievably, these wack jobs seem to be intent upon reversing this history.

I was watching a show a couple of weeks ago (pardon my memory, but I don't recall the name or channel; perhaps National Geographic Channel?), that was discussing the problem of big cats in 2 cities:one in India, and in LA. The LA part of the show concentrated upon the mountain lion attack upon a cyclist riding her trail bike in a wooded area. A couple of people came along just as the cat was dragging her away by her head. Unbelievably, the "helpful" solution these passersby came up with was to grab the woman's feet and try to pull her away from a full grown male cougar. Yeah, that didn't work too good. Finally it occurred to the guy, "Attack the cat!", which did work. For some reason, I started to suspect that the guy was a liberal.

For the Indian part of the show, these leopards were getting so bold, they would enter your house at night and drag away even a teen age boy for din din. Worrying about feral humans is bad enough. Do we really need to add big cats to our daily probs as well?

Ps- I let most snakes live. However, copperheads and rattlers are dead meat around me!

[Finny]

The Amish arent trying to save the world, they are focused on trying to save their own souls. Perhaps the EcoFascists could take a lesson.

Wow. Outstanding clip out of an outstanding post -- from a thread filled with great posts! Very well said and thanks for pointing this out. It's profound, the very healthiest food for thought.

Incidentally, I found a local furniture store that carries a large selection of Amish-made furniture. WOW. I find that I like it even more than I like the Craftsman style. It is incredibly beautiful stuff. If it reflects the Amish philosophy, it speaks of serenity, balance, simplicity, efficiency, clarity.

[KosmicKitty]

Very timely for me personally.

I've been having a discussion w/ a close friend regarding Rachel Carson and the DDT ban. I've been spending the last few days searching out everything on the web that I can find about DDT, both positive and negative.

What I have found is the following:

The ban on DDT was purely politucal. DDT is not a carcinigen and is much cheaper and safer than other peticides used today.

The thinning of rapter eggshells may just be a correlation to the presence of DDE (component of DDT), not the causation. Many of the rapter populations were in serious decline prior to the widespread use of DDT.

That the ban on DDT has caused signification deaths in third world nations from maleria. More people have dierd because of the DDT ban than all those killed by Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.

And, what bothers me the most and what I am currently trying to find informaiton on - The DDT ban may have partly occurred as a way of redducing the population of in developing nations.

Oh, such a "noble cause" with such evil effect!! Al Gore is proud, I'm sure.

[LRS]

I suspect he is talking about the book "Fallen Angels" by scifi writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. IMO, not one of their best, but interesting none the less. It's one of those books that people either seem to love or hate. If one has never read their work before, perhaps one might try some of their other stuff first (The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall, Lucifer's Hammer, etc.)

Wait, apparently Fallen Angels is online: http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/067172052X/067172052X.htm

[Eagle Eye]

Why post this? Aren't you just giving them more propoganda to use against the rest of us? Afterall, there are good enviro-terrorisits out there.


Or am I on the wrong thread?

[Mike Darancette]

What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

This is my favorite.

To implement this idea "Man Made Global Warming" has become a central tenet of a worldwide religion.

[doug from upland]

Why post this? Because I wanted to expose just how crazy these folks are. These are not environmentalists. These are genuine loons.

[Eagle Eye]

Total agreement. I guess you missed out on some of the Tancredo madness threads.

It isn't stretch for me to compare eco terrorists with islamic terrorists.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Actually, I liked the idea of global warming supporting nuclear generated electricity. However, we should not rely too much on pure junk science to gain any goal. Nuclear energy should be our response to most of the oil being held in the Middle East by unstable governments and fanatic clerics.

I do not believe in global warming being related at all to human populations burning fossil fuel, however if an environmentalist who does believe in global warming argues that we should also be against nuclear power then he is a hypocrite. If he supports nuclear power but for the waste problem, he has not visited Nevada and should not be trusted.

[marty60]

The self-loathing and hatred of their fellow humans, is pathological. These people could keep an ARMY of shrinks busy for decades.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Radical environmentalism is a pagan "blood and soil" nihilist irrationalist cult composed of guilt wracked melancholic schizo-empaths, the neo-retro superstitious feudal peasantry and woozy hypochondriacs with vague fears of contamination.

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