Earth Day Nonsense
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.
http://rightwingpatriot.com/earth-day-nonsense/
Believers in God are the denizens and caretakers of the Earth. The fake environmentalists are a mockery of them, and only have political interests in mind instead. They use it as a club to beat others over the head with.
“Fetus Day”
Do you think THAT would ever catch on?
Just a thought to counter the “Dirt Good, People Bad” crowd.
In celebration of Earth Day, I cut down a tree.
I’m not interested in what spawn of Newt has to say.