The irony of the environmental/religious movement is that these draconian environmental laws leave nothing but devastating rural poverty in their wake. How moral is that? I am seeing my communities falter one after the other. Families are disintegrating and our children are being raised in poverty, with all its associated substance abuse and domestic violence . We are now dead last in economic family well-being of all California counties.
Worst of it is that folks don’t seem to care about the human costs of the implementation of this ideology. We are demonized as less than human exploiters of natural resources - gasp. Citifolk care more about the third world than the poverty they have created in their own backyards.
Environmental regulation is also being used to reallocate ownership of natural resources from one group to another, economically benefitting those who side with the movement - such as the tribes along the Klamath River.
We bring money into our local economy through farming, ranching, logging, mining and some tourism. There is no industry. Endangered fish and owls bring almost nothing to our economy, although the coastal areas benefit from fishing. Yet they shut down our natural resource use to benefit the conomy of others and reallocate ownership of water use held for more than 100 years to someone else through regulations. How moral is that?
I am stunned by the level of falsehoods and fabrications I read in repeated news releases from these groups. I am stunned that major newspaper’s swallow their exagerated claims and b.s. hook line and sinker.
The environmental movement is slowly destroying our form, of government by initiating regional government, starting with a collective rule over resource use by the “community” on the watershed level, then the “province” or bioregional level. Agencies sign MOUs with non-elected self-appointed watershed councils and by-pass the land planning authority of local elected governments. It is happening before our eyes and the people of California even vote for bonds - such as the water bonds, to fund it. How stupid we are.
Visit IndyMedia and see how the progressives are using groups to destroy us from within. I am sick of it.
That says it all! The groups demanding the removal of the dams on the Klamath are going to cause more poverty up river then the good they think they are creating down river. And it won't take long to find out that without out the dams there will be no water in the river in late fall.
The economy of Humboldt County is largely taxpayer transfers into the payrolls and handouts here.
” :The irony of the environmental/religious movement is that these draconian environmental laws leave nothing but devastating rural poverty in their wake. How moral is that? I am seeing my communities falter one after the other. Families are disintegrating and our children are being raised in poverty,...”
Because that is what the envirals want.
Remember Hayfork ? Was once a thriving rural community.
They killed it.
They used the phony endangerment of the Spotted Owl — to rally public support for the murder of Hayfork...
The rural families have been effectively demonised as
crass, ignorant, selfish forest-hating-baby-owl-slaughtering
white supremist etc etc...