Posted on 03/20/2022 5:15:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A recent Vermont legislative initiative purports to save the planet…. by “conserving” fifty percent of all Vermont territory for wildlife by 2050!
In addition to the economic and constitutional problems this poses, this effort holds up for public display the foolish power-mongering implicit in all these highbrow, counterproductive “climate salvation” fantasies.
Vermont’s House has passed H.606, cited as the “Community Resilience and Biodiversity Protection Act” or “CRBPA,” which defines “conserved” as “meeting the definition of ecological reserve area, biodiversity conservation area, or natural resource management area as defined in this section.” H.606 sets out the plan: “Thirty percent of Vermont’s total land area shall be conserved by 2030, and 50 percent of the State’s total land area shall be conserved by 2050.”
This effort is totally disconnected from helping the ecosystem, though it dramatically expands elitist ideological tyranny – this is the common theme when bureaucrats fantasize they can solve problems they don’t even understand, with more bureaucracy and power appropriated to themselves. The common theme in all of these efforts is that they 1) eliminate private property rights; 2) while transferring wealth from poor people to wealthy elites and 3) are environmentally counterproductive.
Environmental writer Wendell Berry opines wryly that “People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.” A parallel is that people in Vermont are subjugated by an elitist bureaucrat industry, which pays no attention to either human health, food, or the ecosystem – all of these are mere pretenses to advance counterproductive ideological delusions. Much like overt government racism is touted as the “final solution” to subconscious racism, now total government/corporate domination of land is embraced to “save Vermonters from themselves.”
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Who is going to save the citizens from the government?
Vermont is hardly ‘leading’ the way. Bureaucracies have been at this for decades. I learned this in the70’s in Michigan when I built a house. I could not even apply for a permit until I was blessed by the Soil Erosion Tzar. I needed to install a ‘silt fence’ to prevent any soil I might disturb from washing away. The Tzar admitted he was a one-man operation. He spent half his time issuing permits, and the other half driving around looking for violators so he could collect the fines to pay his salary. I’m quite sure by now he has teams to do both, but still drives his issued car.
I lived then at the top of a glacial moraine. Now I live at the bottom and now have to deal with the Swamp King. I believe he’s called the Wetland’s Administrator, or something like that. I can’t even plant a garden without fearing a daily fine of $10,000 unless I have the proper permit. Reading the letter of the regulations, I’m not even allowed to put out a bird bath in the spring without a permit. I then need another permit in the fall to take it in for the winter. I’ve avoided this by not having a bird bath.
Of course there can be little doubt that someday something involving a firearm will happen in the state...or elsewhere...and the Maoists will take that opportunity to pass New York style restrictions. After all,most of the state's current residents were born and raised in New York.
Zoning one of worse things we have allowed government to control.
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“until I was blessed by the Soil Erosion Tzar”
Some states you have to get blessed by a Radon Tzar. I think Vermont is one.
If you can’t beat em, join em. Now you can buy a 1 acre lot, build on it, then call in sightings regularly of endangered toad darters all around to keep a nice fat green space buffer that cant get permitted for building. Much cheaper than buying 20 acres to accomplish the same.
Vermont, the one state I boycott everything from.
Vermont, the state with the highest percentage of self-identifying socialist’s and lowest percentage of blacks, Muslims, illegal aliens, etc.
Vermont, the very definition of white liberal New England snobs. Haughty, sanctimonious, self righteous and the biggest hypocrites on the planet. /double spit
Vermont is an unusual state.. Libertarian lifestyle (nudism in the state is fine, great gun laws), but their politicians are socialists...
Vermont has turned hard core racism into an art form.
Environmentalism is a brilliant cover story stopping multi-family housing development dead in its tracks.
Watch what they do, ignore what they say.
Sorry Vermont but you are So small you’ll make no difference even if there was Global Warming
The only wildlife left in Vermont can be found in Winooski on Saturday night.
They want to conserve bio-diversity so badly they chopped down the largest contiguous beach tree forest in the continental United States (despite the “ridgeline” preservation act) to build a wind power project.
Our state constitution protects our right to bear arms. The commies have yet to find the “kill switch” to impose total gun control. That does not keep them from trying every legislative session. We now have a magazine ban and just in the past week the governor vetoed a 30 day waiting period to purchase a hand gun.
Our politicians don’t come from here.
But you must recognize...and acknowledge...that the overwhelming majority of Vermont’s Maoists were born and raised in New York. As a lifelong native New Englander I can guarantee you that Bernie Sanders didn’t develop that accent in Maine...Vermont...New Hampshire...Massachusetts...or Rhode Island.
Well that’s just wonderful.
I was born in Vermont, the last of six generations born within a fifteen mile radius of Essex Junction. I still own about forty acres of mixed wood and pasture in Orleans County. Had it selectively logged last year so the woodlot is in good shape. 365 day access by graded dirt road. Features a thousand feet of river frontage on a nice trout stream. Good hunting too.
Nice place. I planned to retire there until I came to Alaska ten years ago. Never going back now.
I suppose I should sell it.
Vermont was once one of the most Conservative states in the country.
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