The author's website...
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.
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Reading this was a bit like a breath of fresh air.
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.
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!
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.
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.
read later.
" 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.
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.
ex sierra club leader here.
Man, it makes me nervous when I see these types starting to agree with me.
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.
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