Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/03/2010 8:06:19 AM PST by Olympiad Fisherman
American environmentalism existed in a clearly recognizable form in the 1860s. The movement, then known as conservationism, became a dominant political force in the 1885 to 1915 era. Some salient features from that era: The overwhelming, and explicit, consensus of conservationists was that wilderness could be protected only by imposing martial law.
Conservationist zealot Army Captain George Anderson incarcerated suspected wilderness wrongdoers in solitary confinement cages; keeping them on bread and water diets for over month at a time. He freely admitted there was no legal basis for such punishment. New York conservationists pulled off an exquisite climate change hoax in their successful campaign to enclose the massive Adirondack Forest Preserve. Senior conservationist William Hornaday, declared the town of Gardiner, Montana should be “wiped off the map.” He claimed there were 1,000 towns in the West in a similar “degenerate state, bordering on barbarism” because their inhabitants were “afflicted with a desire to do as they please with the natural resources of that region.” William Rockefeller bought most of the land in and around the Adirondack town of Brandon, New York. He razed the houses, planted trees in their stead and for this was hailed as the “Maker of Wilderness” by Collier’s magazine ...
(Excerpt) Read more at ecofascism.com ...
Great article.
Think about this the next time you go boating on a beautiful resevoir built by the Army Corp of Engineers.
You are boating over the farms and ranches of farmers and ranchers who were forced off their land for the public benefit.
Those farms and ranches were built by back breaking work, shovel and pick axe..not gigantic earth movers and such.
That certainly may be true, but now building dams and the like are almost considered as crimes against nature.
“That certainly may be true, but now building dams and the like are almost considered as crimes against nature.”
Anything that may benefit humans is a crime.
Before it was a resevoir, it was river bottom land.
But, in these modern times who needs water? Who needs non-polluting hyrdro-electric energy? We’ll just use batteries.
We visited the Tennessee Valley Authority project. Total boondoggle. We remembered the stories of the last landowners to be forced out.
You know there are still mountain people in that part of the country who have Cockney dialect in their English because they’ve had so little contact with the outside world. It’s rare, and dying quickly, largely because of paved roads. Devastating to have their simple worlds turned upside down in the Land of The Free. Home of the Brave.
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