Communist, not Facist.
Posted on 04/23/2007 7:21:34 AM PDT by presidio9
When the Christian Science Monitor recently declared Al Gore "the Rachel Carson of global warming," the former vice president must have bubbled over with pride. There is, it seems, no higher compliment one can bestow on an environmentalist.
Next month marks what would have been Carson's 100th birthday, and festivities abound. The author of "Silent Spring" -- the 1962 book that birthed modern environmentalism and made "DDT" a dirty word -- Carson is the subject of an exhibit at the National Archives and the star of its Environmental Film Festival this year.
Considered a secular saint by some, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century and is the posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A book due out on Earth Day (when else?), called "Courage for the Earth," is composed entirely of glowing tributes. Front and center is an essay by Mr. Gore, actually a reprint of the introduction he wrote to the 30th-anniversary edition of "Silent Spring." In it he admits that he is a Carson fanboy -- he says that he has a portrait of her hanging in his office and that, "in spirit, Rachel Carson sits in on all the important environmental meetings of [the Clinton] administration."
With all the birthday hullabaloo, now seems as good a time as any for a re-examination of Carson's legacy.
The display at the National Archives
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Rachael Carson is responsible for more human deaths than Stalin and Hilter. The consensus among the big environmental groups is that the optimum global human population should be 80 million. What did Lenin say about “breaking some eggs”? Going for the record Al?
yet another crap for brains *Rachael*....
What is it? Do people who name their daughters
‘Rachael’, predestin their daughters to be
mental midgets? Or, after they’ve grown a bit,
and they realise they have an idiot daughter,
they then change their daughters name to
Rachael?
That’s a pretty broad brush, but now that you’ve mentioned it...
Good article. However, it failed to examine the fallacy of thinning bird egg shells. Any time you mention the use of DDT to a modern day liberal-wacko environmentalist, they inevitably bring-up thinning egg shells as a major ecological disaster in waiting.
Research since “Silent Spring” has proven these assertions to be false. In fact, it has been shown that hatching rates among certain bird species eggs have increased when the mother birds were exposed to extraordinary amounts of DDT.
In any event, the appalling aspect of this is that these liberals will keep going back to insect and bird shell “evidence” even when confronted with the fact of one million lives lost annually to DDT.
Liberalism truly is an anti-human philosophy destined to ash heap of fascist movements.
Bump.
Rachael Carson is responsible for more human deaths than Stalin and Hilter. The consensus among the big environmental groups is that the optimum global human population should be 80 million. What did Lenin say about “breaking some eggs”? Going for the record Al?100% correct!
Communist, not Facist.
At least the enviros feel good about themselves.
Ok, i’ll admit that,but so far, i’ve only run across
*one* person with that name, that I respect
or admire..and that is Rachael Ray.
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