Posted on 09/07/2004 7:29:53 AM PDT by ZGuy
I stopped subscribing to the Yellow Bordered Pamphlet of Yellow GreenWeenie Journalism YEARS ago...............
I no longer read, subscribe, or patronize Natl-Geo, for all those reasons you cited. Which is a shame, to see how low they've devolved.
The NG, along with the Smithsonian, have been taken over by leftist kooks. Like "Old Europe," they are Old News.
Many were topless....
My 90 year old MIL sends me copies from time to time and can't understand why I don't read them.
Add Scientific American to the list.
HEAR, HEAR!
I'm considering cancelling my subscription this year.
The magazine's got beautiful photos and blurbs that can be read during the average trip to the bathroom.
But its PC and pseudo-scientific qualities have gotten WAY out of hand (do we really need Lefty Joel Achenbach on staff?).
And the NG Channel positively kills me. It's OK for NG photographers and videographers to enjoy themselves doing RAD things, like scuba diving off the Great Barrier Reef. But the rest of us had better not try it! IT'LL HARM THE ENVIRONMENT!
Likewise, I once loved that magazine. I stopped getting it 10 years ago.
I noticed that some years ago and quit taking it. Outdoor magazine is another one that has turned into a enviromentalist wacko rag.
I stopped reading National Geographic when I became aware of other magazines that showed pictures of naked or nearly naked women. I guess I really shouldn't use the term 'reading' here, more like perusing.
Ahhhh, multicultural erotica. A major influence on my halcyon youth.
And not only are they to the Left on Green issues but they also did a puff piece on the International Committee of the Red Cross back when the FMLN was still fighting in El Salvador. A photo showed the IC Red Cross unloading supplies at the feet of the communist guerrillas and yet the caption made the impossible claim "Guerrillas overwatching the unloading of supplies did just that and made no effort to confiscate..." The ICRC chose little guerrilla base towns on the Honduran border to supply in such ways.
For example, the internal combustion engine produces just about as much water vapor as carbon dioxide during the combustion process. But if ordinary people realized this, and realized that 70% of the Earth is covered by water (and subject to evaporation during the day) they would laugh environmental alarmists off the world stage with the understanding that mankind cannot control water vapor levels in the atmosphere no matter how much humans tried. There is simply too much ocean. Hence, the misleading emphasis upon carbon dioxide.
Got this month's global warming issue, and just gave it away to a colleague at the office. I had hoped I was imagining the "activist" leanings of the magazine the past few years, but it has become unmissable even to me.
I suspected Natl Geo was in trouble when they added the letters column some years back. At least half of the correspondants whine about how the Geographic, in its latest article on so-and-so, has failed to address and identify the particular bug that the letter writer has up his or her @ss.
They still have some good articles from time to time, but you have to wade through a swamp of ideological crap to get to them.
We boys used to get our sex education from National Geographic in the back of the elementary school classroom looking at the pics of the topless African women.
I mean, it's not like there was anything else going on at the time that they could've covered (oh, like maybe the Casini mission to Saturn???).
Talk about disappointing.
For many years the Greens have been nothing but a front for radical socialists. Their number one goal is to use the power of government regulations to seize the means of production.
Visit and read many of their websites and it will quickly become apparent that almost everything they say lines up 100% with taking control of the means of production. And ultimately the goal is to undermine Western industry...
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