You mentioned that the teachers in Florida teach the kids about the environment. While I appreciate the reasons why, I'm having a real problem with what's happening as a result of this, and other pushes to "heal" and "save" the environment.
Several months ago I viewed the movie, "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within." What I came away with was the feeling that I had just witnessed a religious event.
The premise of the movie was that the "world spirit" of another planet had been hurtled to earth when it's home world was destroyed. It's conflict with our own world spirit was creating a massive world threat to humanity.
Ghia (sp?), our earth spirit was essentially attributed "god status" in this movie. Ghia was the world's spirit and the benevolent entity of the planet. From it all positive life flowed. The planet could not exist without it.
This may not be the prevailing thought by the teachers who promote environmental knowledge, but I'm begining to think that for at least some, it is.
I recently had a discussion with my 24 year old son. This movie came up and we had a short discussion on the premise. Before our conversation was over, I had to express my opinon that the earth "does not" have a spirit. It is a physical object. It is not a living being in the sense that humans and animals and plants live. It is NOT alive. It does not have a spirit in the conventional sense. It does not have a soul.
We can make a self containing biosphere in a small container. We can balance out the oxygen producers and burners. Life can exist in this closed environment. But that does not create a spirit. The world is no different. It's a living echo system yes. It is not inhabited by Ghia.
Our schools, Saturday morning cartoons, movies, leftist organiztions and people, special interst ecological groups, NGOs, the United States government and even the United Nations and other global concerns have contributed to the brainwashing of our youth on the topic of planetary management.
It has now come to the place that the earth is attributed a soul, Ghia. This is a religion. In differing levels, it is being taught or at least the foundation is being laid in our public schools. What they don't teach is being provided by the prevalent media bias. The result is that our young people are if not practicing Ghiasts, at the very least incredibly sympathetic to the message of Ghia's truly devoted clergy and disciples.
I grew up on a farm. I have seen the hurdles farmers have to overcome to be successful. I have read about homeowners being forbidden to do just about anything on their own property. I have seen damms destroyed exaserbating energy shortages. I have seen people's familys, homes, farms and regions destroyed by lies, manipulations and fraud. I have seen grizley bears and wolves reintroduced in areas where there is bound to be conflict with cattle and humans. I have seen the statements by environmental managers that admitted that humans would die as a result of some of these actions. And this despite the reality that these bears and wolves have a solid balanced existance today in other non-human inhabited regions.
I respect our natural resources. Only a fool would wish to do harm to them. I respect animal life and the reasonable efforts to protect these entities. What is being taught to our children today is nothing less than the absolute rule of nature over man. God put man in charge of nature, not the other way around.
I do not attribute to you the things that I have addressed here. But I have to tell you that when I hear a treacher admit that they teach children a respect for, or reverence for nature, my entire being goes on red alert.
Our children can be made to understand the need to respect nature with very little effort. But they can be turned into environmental Nazis with only a smidgen of additional effort. And that additional effort is demonstrated constantly. It's my opinion that we have crossed that line and left it in the distance.
Attention Florida DIMocRAT voters! You can have this for your next Governor. . .
I actually once knew one of the guys fighting the damming of that river in the first place. He was one of the handful of folks in Florida to do so and was considered a crackpot at the time. I knew him because he was a sports coach from whom I learned tennis and took baitcasting lessons. Coach Philpott. He was no dreamy-eyed liberal either. Just a sports fisherman who hated what they were doing to that river. At the time he was considered engaged in crank activity. Now I guess he would be considered a visionary.
Well done, Summer.
Of course the next election will be handled without ounch cards, making it harder still on the Dems. (No midnight vote processing allowed.)