Posted on 12/06/2014 12:16:51 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
The most important thing to understand about an environmental concern is that it is infinitely malleable. It has Play-Doh’s or putty’s wonderful power of accommodation, to take whatever shape, for the moment, might be called for. Because the environment is, by definition or tautology, everything that is around us — there will always be something “in” the environment on which to hang an objection, mount a protest or, as Samuel Johnson, ever elegant, put it, “to point a moral, or adorn a tale.”
(Excerpt) Read more at fullcomment.nationalpost.com ...
This is just an excerpt. Read the article to find out about: the "infamously myopic blundering owl"; "Obama’s six-year and sly ditherings on the subject of Keystone XL"; "gloom and green"; and much more. I guarantee you'll want to recycle some of Murphy's inimitable turns of phrase.
I nominate that for “headline of the year”.
The enviro nazis have never seen the environment get better.
Every day is dismal for those folks. Sucks to be them.
The worst thing is they brainwash kids into believing it. I’ve told people in their 20s and 30s how much worse the environment was when I was young and they look at me like I’m crazy. Like, the air was so bad in LA that you couldn’t see 3 blocks sometimes, and the Ohio river actually caught on fire. It’s been cleaned up to the extent that the environmental groups had to claim CO2 is pollution to stay in business. They had literally never heard any of that before.
They need to claim an emergency to remain relevant.
For some reason, pessimism (gloom and green) is seen as a mark of intelligence, or a “progressive” mindset; while optimism is seen as a mark of naivety or a tendency to drag one’s knuckles while walking. You especially see that amongst the young hipsters, who dwell in coffee shops; or the brainwashed idealists on campuses everywhere.
It’s not just the young — even many people, who also lived through the changes you describe, refuse to believe that anything is getting better. It’s not just confined to the environment — this negativity encompasses every aspect of life. It’s a large part of the reason that disaster movies are perennially among the biggest Hollyweird block-busters.
I don't know how these liberals mange to function day-to-day with all the crap they dwell on all of the time. My life is busy enough just living and working, without having to solve inexistent problems made-up by these leftists.
Follow the money instead of the moronic, misleading political speech. Hundreds of anti-competition business interests are pouring money to the fake environmentalists for the show. I saw such efforts in local government meetings against various new, small business starts and have seen them ever since.
Here are some of those businesses (see list), from a recent letter to John Kerry—real estate, tourism, venture capital, medical offices,...all kinds.
http://www.e2.org/jsp/controller?docId=33597
There are probably thousands more behind the opposition against the Keystone XL, most notably real estate interests, tourism interests, other Canada-U.S. trade interests (oil hungry foreign manufacturing) and U.S. domestic oil and gas producers.
Thanks for posting that. I knew about foreign oil interests supporting anti-pipeline organizations — I wasn’t aware of a lot of the others mentioned.
You’re very welcome. Early on, California and Ontario interests were opposing the pipeline, but I didn’t find anything about the constituents behind the politicians then. Some of it might have been part of the old struggle for revenues and political influence between east and west (ON vs. AB and California being an extension of the east down here).
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