Indeed, that is one of the weirdest paragraphs I’ve read in a long time. I worked in scores of industrial and utility power plants as a field service engineer right out of school, and I can tell you, out of the hundreds of plant workers I worked with, NOT ONE was concerned about “cultivating justice.” They cared about getting their checks and keeping their jobs.
The author is saying the envirokooks can create a populist movement if they focus on “cultivating justice.” Shouldn’t populist movements by definition arise on their own free accord? If public opinion has to be shaped and molded so we all see the wonders of “cultivating justice,” then it cannot be a populist movement.
These people are scary because of the outsize disproportionate control they have over our everyday lives. How the tiny extreme fringe of envirokooks came to dictate how we live our lives and force things we don’t want on us is a huge mystery. Shutting down coal plants, destroying dams, light bulbs, microcars with 57 mpg, appliances that don’t work, toilets that don’t flush, and on and on.
“How the tiny extreme fringe of envirokooks came to dictate how we live our lives and force things we don’t want on us is a huge mystery.”
It began with Richard Nixon’s malignant idea of the EPA. The true believers in the environmentalist religion discovered they could expand their power by writing regulations that had the force of law. By brainwashing the stupid taxpayers into accepting their mainly bogus “Endangered Species” listings, they could take over private property by calling it a ‘wetland,” kill entire industries for the Spotted Owl, and stop dams, developments and agriculture by citing a minnow or salamander’s rights. This should never have happened in the USA.