Why no one believes environmentalists
Posted on 03/11/2005 8:55:11 PM PST by neverdem
The problem with environmentalists is their own demogoguery and refusal to reasonably discuss issues, and perhaps admit to being wrong once in a while. Such self-righteousness in any view is often shunned.
”Given the uncertainties and trade-offs, priority should go to avoiding environmental damage that is irreversible, like extinctions, climate change and loss of wilderness. And irreversible changes are precisely what are at stake with the Bush administration's plans to drill in the Arctic wildlife refuge, to allow roads in virgin wilderness and to do essentially nothing on global warming. That's an agenda that will disgrace us before our grandchildren.” And what is the foregoing, save alarmism?
”So it's critical to have a credible, nuanced, highly respected environmental movement.” But I never see any nuance, only the same-old-aunce of alarmism.
On the scale of millennium maybe, not decades.
Why no one believes environmentalists
We need an environmental movement that is truly, honestly, a watchdog against those who are screwing things up for the rest of us. I do believe that there are people and organizations out there that show a willful disregard and disrespect for the enivironment. I don't want to see tons of poison dumped into a thriving river just because a company doesn't know what else to do with it - and I have seen the results of that in my home town. I believe we need a few wild-eyed people to make us ask ourselves if we really want to proceed with some plans that would clearly have a major impact on a local environment, and we need people to tweak us once in a while when we do a little too much blacktop landscaping.
Having said that. I don't believe too many of those people are in a position of authority at the moment. Most of the organizations and individuals who are screaming about the environment today are using it as an excuse for their anti-industrial, anti-capitalist efforts, and they will not be happy until the industrialized West is reduced to a bunch of feral tribes roaming the land scrounging for leftovers from the rest of the animals.
>The Earth is NOT fragile.<
It's as fragile as a sumo wrestler; I've said that for a long time. What IS truly fragile is civilization.
The history of government shows that it can be lost in an instant.
YEEE-HaWWWWWW!
But environmental alarms have been screeching for so long that, like car alarms, they are now just an irritating background noise.
is dead on right!
"Hello? Hello! Anyone home, McFly?"
Fishing is great near those big oil platforms.
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01/22/05 EMERGING ISSUE The Rockefeller Family Fund: Puppet Master for Leftist Front Groups Ron Arnold article in January 2005 issue of Foundation Watch, published by Capital Research Center, Washington, D.C.
02/22/04 NEW PROFILE The Heinz Cluster Presidential hopeful John Kerry is married to the Ketchup Mafia-Teresa Heinz Kerry, and her three big-time foundations seem to be buying him the campaign.
02/22/03 NEW PROFILE National Environmental Trust It's really a private PR firm, but it sounds so official!
01/24/03 NEW PROFILE Ecoropa Edward Goldsmith's activist organization is a for-profit business, not a registered charity
01/20/03 NEW PROFILES Youth Empowerment Center,, Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations (STARC), and Jessie Noyes Smith Foundation Closely linked nonprofits
12/04/02 NEW PROFILE World Resources Institute A powerful player in international environmentalism
11/03/02 UPDATED PROFILE Foundation for Deep Ecology New links to related nonprofit corporations
10/14/02 NEW CATEGORY Global Greens International environmental / progressivist profiles. See new navigation bar at left of screen. Lots of new profiles
09/20/02 NEW PROFILE Rockefeller Brothers Fund Old line anti-industry money now turns anti-globalization
09/14/02 NEW PROFILE Environmental Grantmakers Association The cartel of eco-money, capitalist investments to destroy capitalist society
09/13/02 NEW PROFILE Rockefeller Family Fund The fourth and fifth generation Rockefeller money takes aim against corporate capitalism
09/10/02 NEW PROFILE World Wildlife Fund A dominant player in international economic policy
09/09/02 UPDATED PROFILE Sierra Club Showing new salaries and financial data as of 2000.
09/08/02 NEW PROFILES Drummond Pike Master of hiding money for left-wing causes in the Tides Foundation and Tides Center. Solidago Foundation Created to fund the Tides Foundation. Tsunami Fund Lobbying arm of Tides Foundation.
08/30/02 Quorn & CSPI: The Other Fake Meat Op-ed by Steven Milloy thrashes notorious Center for Science in the Public Interest for campaign against one brand of veggie-burger while touting a competitor's brand of veggie-burger. Also, see our profile of CSPI.
08/28/02 NEW PROFILE Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance The green group that was ordered to pay to court costs of an oil exploration company when they lost an obstructionist challenge in court.
08/27/02 EXCELLENT LINK ActivistCash.com Website of Center for Consumer Freedom, representing restaurant and tavern owners, offers outstanding profiles of food-related activists, donors, and players.
08/26/02 NEW PROFILES Douglas Tompkins, Jerry Mander, Andrew Kimbrell Power cluster.
08/26/02 NEW PROFILES Turning Point Project, International Center for Technology Assessment, Center for Food Safety, International Forum on Globalization Groups linked through shared board members and funders.
08/12/02 Bill Moyers pleads guilty to negligent driving, fined $750 Is there a charge for negligent television in the works, too?
08/12/02 ANALYSIS Global Green Goals How Environmentalists Intend to Rule the World
07/28/02 NEW PROFILE Clean Water Action Another Nader-linked cluster.
07/24/02 UPDATED PROFILE McKenzie River Gathering Foundation Adds names of individual donors, dates and amounts.
06/18/02 UPDATED PROFILE The Nature Conservancy The richest environmental group and the most controversial group that pretends to be noncontroversial. A few of its many unsavory acts are exposed.
05/22/02 NEW ITEM Notes from a protest movement insider reveal the hidden workings of the WTO protests, the Washington, D.C. World Bank protests, and the later Quebec City Economic Summit riots - and show the same people are behind the anti-Exxon Mobil campaign.
05/20/02 NEW SECTION Attack Group Funders foundations that promote anti-capitalist attack groups
05/13/02 NEW SECTION The Exxon Mobil Attack Campaign Master Page a chilling collection of profiles in the well-funded and highly orchestrated anti-corporate campaign to destroy the world's largest oil company
04/11/02 UPDATED PROFILE The Moyers Mafia with a new commentary on the TomPaine.com conflict of interests from the Claremont Institute
04/26/02 UPDATED PROFILE A Territory Resource
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02/27/02 PROFILE UPDATE Environmental Working Group Subject of the Center's IRS complaint
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A report once prepared by four environmental leaders, including Tom Wathen, then an environment program officer at the Pew Charitable Trusts, contains this language:
"For considerable sums of money, public opinion can be molded, constituents mobilized, issues researched, and public officials button-holed, all in a symphonic arrangement."
Mark Dowie's misattribution!
Americans are unaware of just how "symphonically" their environmental opinions have been molded by big-money foundations that tell green groups what to do and how to do it, all with the help of bureaucrats providing federal grants and insider policy manipulation.
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calls the gradual removal of resource workers from rural lands "transition," envisioning gentrification with upscale retirees, modem gypsies and rat-race refugees in a boutique economy.
destroys the lives and jobs of rural resource workers, whose cries of anguish and anger are called "incivility" by the rich and powerful who are destroying them.
tightens their regulatory grip on private property so you can't use what you own—and you can't get compensation for what you lose.
increases the size of big government by taking more land for "nature preserves" even though government already owns nearly half the nation.
widens the rural-urban prosperity gap. While cities enjoy a booming economy, rural communities suffer severe economic pain caused by the "iron triangle" through bans on logging, mining, ranching, farming, and all forms of natural resource extraction.
perverts the media you rely on, rearranging your mind, making sure you believe what they want you to believe and crushing all opposing views.
dismantles industrial civilization piece by piece.
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