Posted on 04/15/2006 3:43:11 PM PDT by Coleus
Environment: With Earth Day (April 22) still a week off, there's still time for alarmists to scare the pants off the public with stories of impending doom. But the truth is, the planet keeps getting cleaner.
Noxious emissions from carbon monoxide to sulfur dioxide are down, water quality continues to improve and toxic chemicals while still out there aren't doing the damage that their critics claim they are.
But don't look for this sort of information in the mainstream media. With few exceptions, they follow the line of environmentalists who are both emotionally and financially invested in a campaign against capitalism and modern living.
And this is their week, their time to sit back and listen as a sympathetic press reminds us how much greedy corporations, monster SUVs, greedy oil companies and even common household cleaners are wrecking our fragile environment.
But don't be fooled; be informed.
A valuable source of information is the latest "Index of Leading Environmental Indicator," which Stephen Hayward has been compiling since the early 1990s. Among the findings in the 2006 edition:
Emissions of carbon monoxide fell by 14.8% in just the four years ended in 2004. Nitrogen oxides were down 15.7%, sulfur dioxide down 6.7% and volatile organic compounds down 11.2%. Only particulate matter, such as smoke, dust and other floating particles, which plunged 80% from 1970 to 2004, increased from 2000 to 2004, and then by only 8.7%. There was also a large decline a 98.6% drop in lead emissions between 2000 and 2004.
One reason for the gains is that vehicles are burning cleaner than ever and that includes the class of cars that has been demonized by environmental groups. "The frequently heard claim that large SUVs 'pollute more,' " writes Hayward, "is a myth."
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Yes.
That is the fundamental problem.
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Are these stats for the U.S. or for the whole world?
The whole report can be viewed and downloaded here:
http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/sab/enviro/06_enviroindex/00_features.html
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Notice how all the claims about the disappearing ozone layer has sort of 'disappeared'!
Unfortunately, the truth doesn't sell newspapers.
"Environmentalism" is all about replacing capitalism with global socialism. "The environment" serves only as a ploy to (try to) hide the true agenda of the demented ideologues while also serving as a righteous-sounding gimmick to raise lots of money and lure in platoons of naive goofballs.
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"What can you do with pine cones?"
For starters, that's where the pine tree seeds are...so you can plant pinecones for more trees to sell a few years down the road. :)
Crafters love pinecones. We collect them in the spring, dry then in paper sacks during the summer (shake out the seeds) and then sell them to crafters who make wreathes and use them for decorations or add pine-scented oil to them for Christmas decorations and if you dip them in wax, you can make firestarters for your fireplace or wood stove or camp fires. Smear 'em with peanut butter, roll them in birdseed and hang them out for the birds as feeders in the winter months.
See? Plenty of ways to make a buck off of a "useless" old pinecone. :)
You could say to your customers "Well,I don't know, I love that tree so much...I'll let it go sniffle sniffle.. for 2000 bucks. Take it before I change my mind."
I'm stealing that one, LOL! I'm also going to greet EVERYONE with a "Happy Earth Day!" that day.
I'm encouraging the kids (nieces & nephews that are always underfoot) to set up a little stand and make up pitchers of green Kool Aide and sell it as "Earth Day Juice." Maybe we'll bake chocolate cupcakes with green and blue frosting and sell them as "Earth Cakes?" LOL! We'll see how motivated they are. ;)
LOL! It's hard enough to explain the difference between a Red Pine and a White Pine to City Slickers; you have to look at the needles; clump of 5, clump of 3, not to mention the differences between a "spruce" and a "pine" and a "fir" and a "cedar"...Oh, nevermind.
Naming them is probably the easier way to go, LOL! :)
Let me send you some cockleburrs. You could sell them as porcupine eggs.
I like your style....
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It'll always be something for the enviro-nazi's. If they didn't have gasoline to gripe about... it'd be the big, methane bubbles released in the oceans. Their goal is is not a clean environment... it's an environment clean of capitalism.
I soak them in hot wax and use them to start wood fires in the fireplace.
One bushel lasts a season.
The only problem with a good article like this one is that it never makes it's way to the public thanks to the mainstream media's Bias.
That's the spirit! Ham it up. Mutter things like "Everybody needs to carry their weight but they aren't so we "Earth" people need to carry more, buy more trees." "Spending all the proceeds to grow more trees." "Surely you can find space for another tree."
Hope you have a great day and I hope the weather's nice. I figure you're out in now.
See? Plenty of ways to make a buck off of a "useless" old pinecone. :)
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Cool! I had no idea!
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