Posted on 06/06/2023 7:28:19 PM PDT by aquila48
Last month, the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency proposed new power plant regulations that would put harsh limits on the amount of carbon dioxide released while producing electricity. This comes from the same administration pushing to electrify all parts of daily life, from driving to cooking. As if slamming the power grid with artificial demand is not enough, now the federal government has also set its sights on electricity suppliers.
Policies as ludicrous as this are only possible because the ideology they rest on, environmentalism, has long enjoyed a perch on the moral high ground that has gone almost unchallenged. That needs to change. Environmentalism presents itself as a philosophy advocating benevolence toward nature and prudence with resources. But in reality, it is an antihuman ideology capable of justifying atrocities.
Environmentalism rests on the valuation of untouched, nonhuman nature as the highest good. There are, of course, radical and moderate environmentalists, but all adherents subscribe to this fundamental moral valuation. They only differ in their degree of consistency.
This moral view was perhaps best summarized by National Park Service biologist David Graber in his 1989 review of Bill McKibben’s book The End of Nature. Dr. Graber concludes his review with these three haunting paragraphs:
"That makes what is happening no less tragic for those of us who value wildness for its own sake, not for what value it confers upon mankind. . . . McKibben is a biocentrist, and so am I. We are not interested in the utility of a particular species, or free-flowing river, or ecosystem, to mankind. They have intrinsic value, more value—to me—than another human body, or a billion of them.
Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet. I know social scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn’t true. Somewhere along the line—at about a billion years ago, maybe half that—we quit the contract and became a cancer. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth.
It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil-energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along."
We have to find a way to dislodge them from there. And in reality they should have zero claim to that moral high ground.
This paragraph reveals what they're all about - their precious sensibilities which are much more important than anyone else's.
"That makes what is happening no less tragic for those of us who value wildness for its own sake, not for what value it confers upon mankind. . . . McKibben is a biocentrist, and so am I. We are not interested in the utility of a particular species, or free-flowing river, or ecosystem, to mankind. They have intrinsic value, more value—to me—than another human body, or a billion of them."
It's what valuable to them that matters, the hell with everybody else.
How we've let these selfish, disgusting humanity hating roaches and termites rule over us is beyond me!
1. The replacement of Christian ethics with, essentially the "state as god".
2. The "buy in" of the above by virtually all the Media and "elite" as part of "progressivism". Progressivism has no moral foundation, except to reject Christianity and Judeo/Christian ethics.
I think this is hilarious. The power companies were all on board and ecstatic for government forced electrification.
They thought they would be given a break, now it’s their turn next to lose their ass...
satan is using environmentalism to get people to worship the creation instead of the Creator. Instead of saving souls, he has people busy wasting efforts trying to ‘save’ da erff !
satan is using environmentalism to get people to worship the creation instead of the Creator. Instead of saving souls, he has people busy wasting efforts trying to ‘save’ da erff !
I am still waiting for the eco swarm to blame the COVID outbreak on global warming.
I wonder if they can spell hypocrisy?
The EPA
Nixon’s Revenge
It appears that the last word of your reply didn't get posted: deniers.
Yep...Entirely possible...
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