Beam me to Planet Gore !
Really?
While the EPA is causing perfectly good power plants to shut down and incandescent light bulbs have disappeared from store shelves.
Yeah, dead in the water. < /sarc >
That’s what they want you to think.
The market is telling us that the environmental laws we have in place are sufficient to protect the public to the extent they want to be protected and the cost of being protected. Enviro-whackos seek to use government to impose rules and regulations that are often impractical and the cost of which the public considers stupid or onerous, and they don’t like it. It’s like a religion to these people. They would like nothing better than to decimate the untermensch so they and their favored friends can enjoy a pristine environment that we haven’t seen since Adam & Eve. Not gonna happen.
If the ship is dead in the water, ins’t that a prime opportunity to sink it?
The Green movement will never die. In part, because good stewardship of the environment is a legitimate goal.
What has suffered a major setback is not the advance of legitimate environmental protections but the hijacking of the green movement through the use of dishonest and junk science to further political aims that really have nothing to do with the environment.
Green is the new brown.
On Earth Day in 1970, I was the only kid being driven to school on diesel-powered bus 69. I can report that Roy, the driver, carefully passed the throngs of walking students without comment.
I think the authors intentionally left out the actual science or arguments of the opposing ideologies.
Either intentionally or accidentally, the implication is that the movement could have succeeded (still might depending on 2012 elections) regardless of the substance or scientific truth had it been more moderately managed.
AND THAT IS SCARY.
Central planning fails and fails and fails, but they keep trying.
Proverbs 27:22
I wonder why there was no mention anywhere in this piece about the Climategate emails and the systemic faking of data to fit the AGW alarmists’ agenda ...
Certainly their cars don’t go anywhere....
http://nlpc.org/stories/2011/12/29/taxpayers-leaf-four-recharging-stops-needed-go-180-miles
Well, keep pouring fire into it until it sinks, then machine gun the survivors in the water.
Part of their problem is that their general method to enforce a “pristine” environmental standard is to use government as the billy club to bludgeon its citizens with.
When you lose your property because of a puddle of water or a frog lives on it, there is no rationale to justify that kind predatory behavior by an out of control government.
People get a general sense of the absurdity and corrupt behavior of government because of this.
The above was the turning point.
When the false threat of global warming was, well confirmed as false; then the modern environmental movement began to unravel.
The greens have done some good. I don't want 1970s LA smog to return. I want a Hudson River that does not carry garbage and poison. Etc.
We did not need a green movement to get this. Common sense is enough.
The idea that we can predict, let alone contol climate; long term; is over the top loss of reality.