Posted on 10/07/2016 8:31:21 AM PDT by rktman
This notion that people are parasites really got started in the 1960’s. A couple of highly promoted bad actors started this environmental heresy. The first was Rachel Carson with her hysterical polemic about DDT and its purported harm to birds and other wild life. Her ideas proved to be, at best, problematic, but millions of people have died as a consequence of the resulting international banning of DDT. The second, and even more dangerous, problem child was Paul Ehrlich. This curmudgeon has even greater responsibility by amplifying environmental hysteria. Ehrlich should have known better. After all, he is a biology professional. But his mistakes suggest that he may not be all that professionally gifted.
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Throughout the history of mankind there have been those noble souls who did all they could to remove other people in order to save the planet.
Another reason all this huggy feely touchy everybody should live together in harmony crap will NEVER work. There’s ALWAYS some assclown who wants to be in charge cause he/she knows best. And they don’t.
The eco leaders are much like the jihadi leaders in that they demand the sacrifice of the powerless while they are to important to the cause to sacrifice anything.
Once upon a time we had a pretty good answer for all this foolishness, right here in the USA, but we let politicians screw things up.
The major elements of which are:
DDT is poisoning the world!
The population bomb will starve us all!
Nuclear power threatens all life on earth!
Resource depletion will cause the colapse of our civilization!
Acid rain is poisoning the world!
The hole in the ozone layer will cause us all to die of cancer!
Anthropogenic global warming will destroy all life on earth!
Fear! Panic! Run in circles! Run in circles!!!
It's all BS.
Someone asked me once why I didn’t buy into, what was then, global warming? I asked him, “Were you a politician and someone came to you with a problem, real, perceived, or simply made up, that would give you control over virtually everything and the ability to tax and regulate every activity and projects could only go forward through political advantage, what would you say?”
May I add, the hurricane will kill us all.
Yes. This is a serious storm but it is likely not going to be the absolute and complete catastrophe the media is reporting. There will be areas of severe damage and some people will suffer but most will survive.
But Shep Smith says the children are going to die!!! It must be very series.
Yes. Very series.
It’s not a new religion, it’s thousands of years old.
Michael Crichton back in 2003 speech in San Francisco said environmentalism had become a religion, worship of mother Earth.
It seemed extreme then, but it is now terrifyingly prescient.
If you say “in the name of the children”, the children eventually grow up and may object.
If you say “in the name of the planet!”, the planet doesn’t every speak except through the radicals invoking it - and you get an excuse that lets you justify totalitarianism worldwide. That it taps into apocalyptic fervor (the world will end if you don’t!), images of heaven (do this and we’ll have paradise, Edenic wilderness) and hell (the world if we don’t all convert right now and do what they say) per monotheistic religions is only irony.
There, fixed it. Now it's relevant to current events.
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