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The Coming Environmental Revolution- Another world is not only possible---it is one the WAY!
NorthWest AR Times ^ | August 16, 2008 | Art Hobson

Posted on 08/16/2008 12:51:32 PM PDT by missanne

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I am stunned by the extent that this professor from the University of AR goes to embrace this type of thinly veiled communist thought. I will write a letter to the editor to answer this and would appreciate other FReepers input.
1 posted on 08/16/2008 12:54:13 PM PDT by missanne
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To: missanne
Natural Resources Defense Council = DANGEROUS KOOKS
2 posted on 08/16/2008 12:55:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: missanne
...it is one the WAY!

Really cool!

What's this mean?

3 posted on 08/16/2008 1:01:14 PM PDT by Rudder
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What's this mean?

Generally, that you are on the wrong end of the pointy stick covered with excrement.

/johnny

4 posted on 08/16/2008 1:05:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: missanne

Yale Law completely wiped out any knowledge gained at Oxford.


5 posted on 08/16/2008 1:07:17 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: missanne
Sentences (and articles) I didn't finish:

Speth notes that, although scientists have long known that humans are causing the wholesale collapse of the natural world, ...

6 posted on 08/16/2008 1:11:24 PM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: missanne
I will write a letter to the editor to answer this

Please, don't encourage these people. Let them be. They only talk to one another.

7 posted on 08/16/2008 1:14:04 PM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: missanne

“Gus” needs to be careful spewing his “credentials.” Slick Willie was a “Rhodes scholar.” From what I’ve read, he spent his days there listening to Beatle records. I don’t want to go into the alumni of Yale Law School.


8 posted on 08/16/2008 1:17:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (A History and Science Minute.- "Climate change" has been going on for millions of years!)
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Speth notes that, although scientists have long known that humans are causing the wholesale collapse of the natural world, ...

I guess it takes Oxford and Yale both to inspire the generation of this level of verbal diarrhea. (PS--it's false. There is no "wholesale collapse" of anything. Except sanity among the liberaloids).

9 posted on 08/16/2008 1:17:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Some days I read something and don't really understand it. Hence I go forth from FR and start researching a word or phrase I had not heard before. Today it was the odd phrase of Democratizing Wealth that got my attention.

With those words in my search engine I found this:
http://www.appropriate-economics.org/materials/Democratising_the_Wealth_of_Nations_-_Turnbull.pdf

And then some days I return here astounded at what I learned. The phrase caught my attention because how can wealth be ‘democratic,’ unless what they really mean is a fair distribution of wealth. Which if that is the case the idea of fair distribution is inherently unfair. Money/wealth is a tool and it is a reflection of a man's ability to use his mind. It is not something to be taken away from him because of his virtue to be productive.

And so by Art Hobson's own writting the first thing is to move to take a man's productivity away from him, to create that highly intellectual tool of guilt for having created his own wealth.

10 posted on 08/16/2008 1:43:46 PM PDT by EBH ( ... the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. --Alculin c.735-804)
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He has no new thoughts, just read the late eighteenth early nineteenth century anarchists, they have just found another excuse to promote their failed agenda.


11 posted on 08/16/2008 1:52:51 PM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Make all taxes truly voluntary)
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James Gustave (Gus ) Speth is a long-time environmental leader.

That makes him more dangerous than all the smoke stacks and Suv's in North America put together.

12 posted on 08/16/2008 1:54:53 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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From your link I found this phrase for correcting the current capitalist system: (e) Individual property rights are replaced by collective ownership.
This gives a financial partnership between capital and labour, or natural resources and individuals.

I assumed that Democritisation of wealth meant communism, and it looks like it does.

My take away from this is that the commies in the environmental movement are ready to make their move. Global warming is nearing the limit of people’s attention span and they may think they have enough support with Obama and the congress to ram through their version of “fairness”. Of course its all Amimal Farm in that some people will always be more equal than others.

You would think that any system that improves society could be implemented without the threat of governmental force, but that is clearly the only way that some of us will give up private property. (And yes I know we are already on that road, but there will be a limit.)


13 posted on 08/16/2008 2:10:37 PM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (California engineer and teacher)
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To: missanne

Government IS the problem- Reagan..


14 posted on 08/16/2008 2:15:41 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: missanne

Socialism has been ‘new and improved’ more times than Tide; the major difference between the two is that Tide still works.


15 posted on 08/16/2008 2:20:10 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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MODERN TIMES : The coming environmental revolution

I don't think this will be the kind of "revolution" they're anticipating.

They can ponder it all they want, however, as they sway in the breeze.

16 posted on 08/16/2008 2:25:15 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: missanne

Except that the ringleaders have already admitted what they’re up to. The jig is up!

Liars for Jesus and Liars for Science:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047988/posts?page=9#9

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047988/posts?page=8#8


17 posted on 08/16/2008 3:03:36 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Driving a Phase-2 Operation Chaos Hybrid that burns both gas AND rubber!)
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To: Rudder

It means:

From each according to his means, to each according to his needs.

{Ignoring the typo)


18 posted on 08/16/2008 3:06:17 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: BenLurkin

The coming environmental revolution was created by the liberal democratic marixist socialists to mask the real reason, to kill capitolism and America.


19 posted on 08/16/2008 3:09:47 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (IF YOU ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE BY 35 YOU HAVE NO BRAIN. W CHURCHILL)
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To: missanne

Wow. You’re right - really Communist dogma. The sentence I really liked was this:

“America’s crisis of high poverty rates and concentrated wealth for a tiny minority poses a threat to our democracy and the environment alike.”

High poverty rates? Compared to what? I was actually a member of the working poor only 11 years ago - I’ve since worked my way up and out of it, thanks - and there are two major health problems among America’s poor: obesity and drug addiction. I’m sorry, but if your ass is as wide as a barn door and you have enough cash for really rippin’ weed, you are, by common definition, not poor.

In fact, the environmentalists are simply the latest incarnation of an old Western tradition know as “primitivism,” a belief in our culture which was well described in Jacques Barzun’s book “From Dawn to Decadence,” an overview of Western civilization. (He likes it, by the way.) For many centuries in the West, there have been groups who have turned away from the rest of the culture to “return to its roots,” so to speak, by rejecting modernity. You can see an earlier expression of this kind of “primitivism” among the Amish. The environmentalists yearn for some kind of a natural golden age in which they will live harmoniously with the Earth; their belief is deeply religious, as well as detached from any real understanding of the world as it is. A few years back, this environmental primitivism expressed itself as the hippie commune; now its expressing itself as those “living off the grid.” They’re dreamers. Maybe in a few decades they’ll be arguing among themselves about whether or not dialup Internet respects the Earth, or how many pounds of carbon they’ll be allowed to produce each day to fit the requirements of their belief.


20 posted on 08/16/2008 3:30:27 PM PDT by redpoll
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