Posted on 07/06/2009 4:22:27 PM PDT by AJatTheDCWriteUp
Full Article at: http://www.thedcwriteup.com/2009/07/green-alarm-causes-incalculable-harm/
One of the most annoying assumptions in current politics is that Republicans and conservatives don’t care about the environment. I’ve lived on a river much of my life, so I know from experience that a clean environment is an essential part of a healthy culture. I’ve seen people dump latrines and trash into my front yard, a water-way that thousands of people use every day. The health hazards of pollution and the real world effects of mutilating natural keepsakes are readily apparent for anyone willing to look closely.
But looking at the current Waxman-Markey Climate bill, I don’t see any hint of responsible environmentalism. Driving the razor thin passage of the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill in the House on Friday was the reasoning that global warming and the growth of man-made greenhouse gases present such a serious problem that decisive action must be taken to stem its effects. According to Al Gore and his acolytes the time for science is over, and the time for action is now.
This troubling contention, that scientific debate must be suspended and replaced with hard charging policies, has been made in the past with disastrous consequences. Let‘s take a trip back through the last fifty years and examine some of the other times we were told Mother Nature was in danger and the apocalypse was nigh.
Claim #1: DDT Poses a Major Environmental Threat
The impetus of the current environmental movement was the campaign to ban Dichloro-diphenyl-dichloromethane, otherwise known as “DDT.” Most grade school kids have read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, which told of the horrible consequences DDT use had on bird populations and humans. To this day, many people do not know that much of the evidence Carson presented was exaggerated and even incorrect...
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