The Environmentalist Wacko Agenda
Environmentalist radicals (ER’s) are something to behold. Their expectations are that all they want should be done with no concern for costs. They concern themselves with anything they think is wrong and their overall viewpoint seems to be that mankind is wrong if he does anything more than the Australian aboriginals. ER’s want the climate to remain the same as it was in AD 1975. They want no pollution of any sort. They want fewer people on the planet. They want no chemicals used in agriculture. They want animals raised as if they were people. They even want animals to have the rights of people. The list in general is short. The devil, as they say, is in the details. Unfortunately, they have implanted themselves into membership of the Ruling Class (See Angelo Codevilla’s defining essay) where they too easily influence policy.
For them, climate change is an easy target. ER’s want global warming, more specifically Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), stopped and even reversed. ER’s see AGW as a major problem for life on earth. Well, not exactly. They see AGW as a problem for human life on earth. ER’s express concern about rising sea levels, which would destroy ocean front cities, and changing precipitation patterns, which would cause a problem for agriculture. They don’t argue that these changes would impact Earth itself, or that the insects would be impacted, or some such. Their concern seems to be that man remains viable.
Their solutions are almost the exact reverse of their concern. In order to accomplish the ER’s goals, we, the Country People (from Codevilla), would have to reduce our use of carbon based fuels by a significant amount; an amount large enough to change our lifestyles substantially. But isn’t that what the ER’s say they don’t want? They want the climate to stay as it was in 1975, so man can continue to live in what the ER’s consider an acceptable climate, but they want us to change how we live to do it.
Well, without air conditioning, one of their goals for elimination, we can’t really live in Miami anyway. Who cares if the oceans cover it? It seems the ER’s advocate no change in climate because they like how the climate is now so we can keep the lifestyle we have become accustomed to…all while advocating complete change in lifestyle. Can you spell sanctimonious?
While along that line take time to remember the Climategate email sting. Then remember the exoneration of that same group of ER’s. This quote is from Dr. Tim Bell writing in the Canada Free Press referring to the exoneration:
“These actions were symptomatic of the entire activities at the CRU and then the IPCC. Those using human induced global warming for political and economic ends could not allow anyone to find there was something wrong with the data or the method. Instead they laugh in our faces with the most transparent, manipulated brazen cover up possible.”
The point here is that the Ruling Class has undue influence and power over the rest of us and the ER’s are learning to be part of and use that power. And so we the taxpayers and consumers, the Country People, in addition to other affronts, are stuck with paying for the manufacture of millions of gallons of ethanol. Supposedly a green fuel, by some counts, it takes more energy to produce it than it supplies. However, there is no question what it does to the farmland where it is grown and it is an expensive product in many ways, surviving only due to taxpayer subsidies. It is considered green only because it uses corn as a feedstock, not because it is an efficient use of resources. In fact it accomplishes nothing beyond transferring taxes and hidden subsidies to companies such as Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), a favorite of Congress. $5 billion worth or more per year. Not a bad subsidy if you can get it.
Then there is the ER’s fight to reduce chemical use in agriculture. Some of the most efficacious products on the market have been removed in order to gratify the ER’s. The argument is the chemicals harm people and animals. OK. We’ll give them that. What harm does not using the chemicals do? The ability to feed the world’s human population is dependent upon the use of chemicals. Take away the chemicals and fungus, bacteria, and insects will destroy enough to starve millions, if not, billions of people. DDT is a perfect example. There are others. Certainly they are not perfect, but we keep getting better and, as an aside, we keep living longer. Something must be going right.
On the other side, the evolution of insects and disease continues. The fight goes on yet the ER’s seem to prefer we use mules and hoes to supply our produce. A usually unstated part of the problem is the ER’s use the United States EPA and similar agencies to accomplish their agenda. Other countries, with whom our farmers and manufacturers have to compete, are not so restricted. We end up making our basic industries noncompetitive in the world market because other countries allow their farmers to use those products that enhance production. So it seems the ER’s are intent on making our agricultural base non competitive in the world markets. (Except for corn ethanol that has international trade restrictions supporting its domestic manufacture.)
The ER’s talk of sustainable living and advocate denser housing, shorter commutes, etc. Then they ask for huge set asides of land for parks and recreation and wildlife. So instead of going out in your yard for some fresh air and communing with plants, you have to go somewhere, usually by car. They want government and taxpayer subsidized organizations to own the open spaces, often using taxes to purchase land that they will control, for their own use. This while the taxpayer is supposed to live cooped up like chickens, stacked one on top of the other and going to work every day in order to pay more taxes. What kind of life is that?
If you choose it, great, but why is it being forced upon those who don’t necessarily want it? What is wrong with suburbia? It’s the commute and the roads. But when it is so far to the park you can’t go every day, a yard in suburbia is just out the back door. This yard is a park itself. Paid for by the individuals who choose to have it. But the ER’s want none of that because they know how we should live, and they want you to pay for their parks.
The one that is the most fun is when the ER’s say they want wind energy. Sure they do, as long as the windmills are not visible. Don’t put them on the mountain tops (where the wind is) people might have to look at them. Don’t put them in the ocean shallows (where the wind is) people might have to look at them. Put them out west, where there are no people and we, the Country People, have to build transmission lines for thousands of miles, to get the electricity to where it is needed.
The list of the sanctimonious ER’s plan for economic destruction goes on. Having implanted themselves into the Ruling Class, they must be taken seriously. Their accomplishments are ruining our economy and thus your life. Be aware.
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