[randog]

Until the environmental movement comes to terms with the harm it has fostered in addition to the victories it has achieved, there will be no reason to celebrate Earth Day for millions of people around the globe.

Patrick Moore is a co-founder of Greenpeace who left that organization and became chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit

This must have the SF and Berkeley leftists' heads spinning.

[lizma]

Someday, somewhere I want to see a greenie explain to me how the banning of DDT and the death of millions is a good thing.

Liberals are always pro-choice but their choice is always pro-death. What gives?

[Savage Beast]

I was once an "environmentalist". I gave freely to "environmentalist charities". I wore teashirts with "environmentalist" slogans on them.

Then I found out what the "environmentalist" movement is all about.

It'll be a cold day in hell when I give another penny to one of these enormously rich "charities" or lend my support to these bullies and their "causes".

When the "environmentalists" decide that your home violates "the public viewshed", they will be well prepared and armed with brilliant legal minds by the time you find out about it. Seizing it will be merely a matter of strategy; if one thing doesn't work, they'll think of another. Their lawyers will be well paid, their politicians enthusiastic. Their arguments will be convincing, their strategy flawless, their logic exquisite. Everyone will see how reasonable it is to throw you and your family out on the streets, seize your property, destroy your home, and turn over what's left to the government so that the "environmentalists" will have a pleasant view as they drive by. And everyone will praise the politicians for bringing yet another acre or half-acre or whatever you had under government protection. Nevermind that they stole it from you.

You're what? An American citizen? It can't happen???

[henderson field]

When the Sierra Club will not oppose immigration, which eliminates thousands of acres of wild habitat, then they cannot be taken seriously.

[RippleFire]

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[Avoiding_Sulla]

It is impeding both economic and environmental progress due to an agenda that is anti-development, anti- technology and, in the final analysis, anti-human...

This appeared in the SF Chronicle? Wake me when the other shoe drops, okay?

[EGPWS]

But the story is much different elsewhere. Indeed, for much of the rest of the world, conditions are worse than they should be. Ironically, the very movement that made its presence felt in rallies across this country in 1970 and that thrives in the developed world today must shoulder much of the blame for the developing world's sorry state. It is impeding both economic and environmental progress due to an agenda that is anti-development, anti- technology and, in the final analysis, anti-human...

Ah yes, haven't I heard this before?

American way bad, American progress good.

Damned if ya' do and damned if ya' don't.