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I used to be a bit of a crunchycon myself, until I actually studied atmospheric chemistry and got to see the extent that policy agendas had warped the actual science involved.

1 posted on 01/30/2005 3:06:14 PM PST by .cnI redruM
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To: lepton

bookmark bump


2 posted on 01/30/2005 3:16:13 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: .cnI redruM
How about the banning of DDT relating to suppressing Malaria in the developing world? Or the hysterics over Alar?
3 posted on 01/30/2005 3:18:10 PM PST by Thebaddog (Dawgs off the coffee table.)
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To: .cnI redruM

Reading this was a bit like a breath of fresh air.


4 posted on 01/30/2005 3:18:54 PM PST by Bahbah
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To: .cnI redruM

In retrospect, I made the wise choice to get my degree in ecology at Fresno State University (after my USN career), where the professors taught true science, not enviro-whackism.


5 posted on 01/30/2005 3:26:11 PM PST by ATCNavyRetiree (I can most times spot a liberal...they look weak, cowardly and undisciplined.)
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To: .cnI redruM

Thanks for posting this. I grew up in a 'green' state and watched the building of the only nuclear power plant in the state. The power plant was built on an island in the river; before the land was bought for the plant it was covered with shanty shacks (one of which I lived in). After they finished the plant, white swans came to live in the water around the area because of the fish and foliage that the plant designers put in. Electricity prices dropped to a level that even a kid (me) heard about it. Several years ago the E-wackos got the plant closed using the China Syndrome strategy and the price of electricity jumped up because of it. The last time I was home, the wackos were trying to 'restore it to it's original, pristine state'; obviously they hadn't been there before the plant was built. The nuclear plant's grounds were much more beautiful than all the run down shacks that were on the island originally!


7 posted on 01/30/2005 3:27:39 PM PST by Vor Lady
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To: .cnI redruM
Once again the truth comes out: Environmentalists are bad for the environment.
8 posted on 01/30/2005 3:28:06 PM PST by rottndog (Save a tree--Eat a beaver!)
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These are only some of the problems caused by the left wing zealots who took over and co-opted all the major environmental organizations.

For instance, almost all of them support abortion throughout the third world, because they think people are bad for animals. Kill people, save animals.

Most of them support the Kyoto treaty, a huge boondoggle that would suck up money that could be used for better purposes, including real environmental improvements.

I am a very strong environmentalist. Nature needs to be preserved; pollution needs to be cleaned up. But it has to be done sensibly, and people have to be flexible enough to recognize when they have been wrong.

I feel very strongly that conservatives should not attack the idea of environmentalism as such, as freepers often perhaps jokingly do, but that we should take it back from the nutjobs who captured and perverted it in the 60s.


9 posted on 01/30/2005 3:29:02 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2005012919030002586895&dt=20050129190300&w=RTR&coview=

It says that global warming will destroy the world by 2026.

WWF environmental group scamming for donations.


10 posted on 01/30/2005 3:35:22 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: .cnI redruM

read later.


12 posted on 01/30/2005 3:37:58 PM PST by TX Bluebonnet
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" As for aesthetics, wind turbines are works of art compared to some of our urban environments."


I think that is the most telling quote in the article. So many of these people are frauds who want pristine wilderness around them. I fight over development as well, but I am not some commie loving liar. I don't want big buildings or crime in my area of the woods.


16 posted on 01/30/2005 4:38:12 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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So it's really not Environmental Control. It's just Control. It's a Marxist deal. If it wasn't the environment, it'd be something else.


18 posted on 01/30/2005 4:49:41 PM PST by henderson field
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To: .cnI redruM

ex sierra club leader here.


21 posted on 01/30/2005 4:55:11 PM PST by larryjohnson (USAF(ret))
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Man, it makes me nervous when I see these types starting to agree with me.


22 posted on 01/30/2005 4:59:09 PM PST by stboz
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To: .cnI redruM
>>Prognosis: Environmentalism has become anti-globalization and anti-industry.<<

Environmentalism also has become very anti-people. I have two degrees in the biological sciences and am now retired from a career of working with National environmetal issues. Radical environmentalists have long since abandoned any goals they may have had of protecting the human environment for goals which simply promote leftist social agendas. The major environmental groups openly promote these social goals by using the environment to build big bank accounts and to flog society into accepting their brutish agendas.

Muleteam1

25 posted on 01/30/2005 5:30:33 PM PST by Muleteam1
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26 posted on 01/30/2005 11:32:46 PM PST by Outraged (Time to put pressure on the party)
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To: .cnI redruM

Bump for bookmarking.


27 posted on 01/31/2005 8:34:07 PM PST by Terpfen (New Democrat Party motto: les enfant terribles)
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