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To: i_dont_chat

This will go nowhere. The Global Warming movement isn't about global termperatures, it's about destroying the American economy.


45 posted on 01/29/2007 12:23:54 PM PST by denydenydeny ("We have always been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France"--Wellington)
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To: denydenydeny
I agree, and so does the founder of Greenpeace (who has since left the organization).

From http://www.greenspirit.com/about.cfm?a=1

Fifteen years of Greenpeace campaigns later I had some new insights. It was time to switch from confrontation to consensus, time to stop fighting and start talking with the people in charge. I became a convert to the idea of sustainable development and the need to consider social and economic issues along with my environmental values. I adopted the round table, consensus approach as the logical next step in the evolution of the movement for sustainability.

Little did I realize at the time how this would bring me into open and direct conflict with the movement I had helped bring into the world. I now find that many environmental groups have drifted into self-serving cliques with narrow vision and rigid ideology. At the same time that business and government are embracing public participation and inclusiveness, many environmentalists are showing signs of elitism, left-wingism, and downright eco-fascism. The once politically centrist, science-based vision of environmentalism has been largely replaced with extremist rhetoric. Science and logic have been abandoned and the movement is often used to promote other causes such as class struggle and anti-corporatism. The public is left trying to figure out what is reasonable and what is not.

Anti-capitalism sums most of the movement up.

57 posted on 01/29/2007 12:53:02 PM PST by M203M4
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To: denydenydeny

In order to fast track the introduction of the amero.


81 posted on 02/13/2009 7:05:40 AM PST by myknowledge (Nothing beats Australia's F-22EMA Raptor)
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