Americans put cash above environment

Washington Times ^ | May 31, 2004 | Audrey Hudson

[Cincinatus' Wife]

More Americans prefer healthy wallets over protecting the environment, according to a poll by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy.

Of 1,000 persons polled, 54 percent said that protecting the environment is important, but it is more important to keep the economy growing.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

John Kerry's French cousin, Brice Lalonde, a former environment minister and Greens leader has said he and Kerry are on the same environemtal page. This must be one of those foreign leaders who is behind his candidacy.

[longtermmemmory]

A strong ecconomy will protect the environment far better than a poverty environment. Environwackos are only about figuring out how to get their mits on your property. After all envirowackos care more about society than anyone else and therefore they should have dictatorial control.

[ovrtaxt]

"This clearly shows Americans don't buy into the environmental movement's heavy-handed prescriptions that would force a choice between economic growth and environmental protection," said Rep. Richard W. Pombo, California Republican and chairman of the House Resources Committee.

Good news bump!

[Savage Beast]

I used to be an "environmentalist". Then I found out who was running this movement, who was involved in it, and what they were trying to do. Now I have only contempt for them and their "movement".

They tend to be self-annointed "activists" with mediocre minds and morality, backed by the enormous wealth of various "environmentalist charities". The effect is to arm the schoolyard bullies with enormous power.

Some of the meanest, cruelest, most sadistic, most disgusting people I have ever know were in the "environmentalist" movement.

I still recycle. My wife's still a vegetarian. But I have adopted this rule of thumb: If the "environmentalists" are for it, oppose it. If they are against it, support it.

[mewzilla]

Gee, I wonder what the heads of the big enviro groups drive?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A strong ecconomy will protect the environment far better than a poverty environment.

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

And Teresa Kerry has a big part in funding them.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[T. Jefferson]

Libs are perfectly content to burn down all our trees with assinine policies, but doing something intelligent to save them is evil capitalism.

[Iowa Granny]

Thanks for posting this. Great info for the work I do in the Real World.

[Ditter]

I am curious as to what you found that the enviromentalist were trying to do.

[baltodog]

Here's an environment question we never see in these polls:

Given a choice, would you drink a cup of water from an American river, or a river in another country?

[BenLurkin]

The lefties are very unclear on the whole "liberty" thing.

They just don't get it.

[Dog Gone]

When environmentalists publicly admit that trees are a crop instead of something sacred, I'll listen to them. Not before.

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm a hunter. I'm a fisherman. I support protecting the environment, and when it comes to protecting it, ourdoorsmen walk the walk. We all also understand that people are part of the environment.

These 'enviromental groups' - PETA, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Earth First, etc - are not environmental groups. They are communist and they are hypocrites in their concrete jungles.

[hinckley buzzard]

"you get initiatives that increase logging of forests that are promoted under the heading of 'healthy forests' and the fact is it's a handout to the timber industry on public lands," Mr. Blackwelder said."

Read between the lines here. The wretchedly obtuse Mr. Blackwelder's concern is not the environment, it's capitalism. Notice, he cannot argue the merits of the "healthy forest initiaive" on environmental grounds, because he would have no case.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[Outraged]

"You get initiatives that actually weaken the Clear Air Act called 'Clear Skies' and you get initiatives that increase logging of forests that are promoted under the heading of 'healthy forests' and the fact is it's a handout to the timber industry on public lands," Mr. Blackwelder said.

[joesnuffy]

More Americans prefer healthy wallets over "protecting the environment">

Whatever the heck "protecting" the environment means..............."the environment" probably needs more protection from the Third Way Sustainable Development New World Odor Elite..

You can grow pulp trees in three to five years....if the nation allowed commerical production of hemp we could really have some renewable pulp resources...