Posted by
Prysson on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:09:28 AM
As the years have passed and now with increasing speed and intensity I have grown from being supportive to being skeptical to scornful to contemptuous to outright hostility toward the environmental movement.
My reason for every supporting them? Because when I was a kid they sent me pictures of baby seals. Now many years later as an adult I realize that that is ALL they have. An emotional, aesthetic apeal that has nothing to do with fact and reality. Environmental groups don't practice science...they engage in political statements and drum up cherry picked evidence to support their pronouncments. It's one of the reasons why "computer models" are so prevelant in the field. They can't use real data because it doesn't support their predefined conclusions..they have to go out and write software that gives them the results they want. Ever wonder how they can accuratle predict global climate change with computer models that fail to backtest against existing data...well the answer is of course they cant they cant even accurate predict teh temperature tommorrow let alone in twenty years, but that doesnt stop idiot senators like Barbara Boxer from trumpeting the computer model results in congressional hearings.
Take the polar bear. The actual facts of polar bears rising populations over the last 30 years are counter to their purpose so instead they hand pick the data from one or two of the population segements that actually are struggling and use that as an argument to cover the entire species....but hey they throw in a pictur eof a polar bear on an iceberg so it must be true (by the way polar bears swim).
Of course polar bears arent really the issue..socialism is. The entire environmental movement is nothing more than back door communism. An attempt to collectivize people under the umbrella of "saving the planet". The planet however doesnt need saving. Their primary target of course is energy. They understand, even if the general publisc does not, that industrial, free markets require cheap and abundant energy...control the energy..you control society. Very seldom of course do their plans however get taken to their natural conclusion. No electricity, no transportation, no running water...preindustrial society. People shoudl seriously ask themselves if that is what they want for themselves and for their children the next time they pull the lever for a democrat because that is precisely where they are taking us.
Long before that our economy will collapse however under the strain of not having the energy it needs to sustain itself...and with the econoy will go the jobs, the houses, the food. The only real question is how far down this idiotic suicidal path we will go before the public at large begins to undertsnad the consequences of our actions and decides to kick out the bums who lead us down the path. How much dmage will be done before we realize how stupid we have been?
At the beginning I stated that I have now outright hostile towards environmentalists. The typical argument of course is that I must therefore be in favor of destroying the environemtn. Im not of course. I care about a healthy planet as much as the next guy..unlike environmentalists cooks however I understand that the one things that is constant about the planet is that it is contantly changing. The temperature always changes, the climate always changes, where there are trees now there will be wetlands tommorrow and where their are wtlands tommorrow their may be desert in teh future. My cooling my home in summer isnt going to change that. My existence on the planet will not stop it from occuring.
I've gone overlong here but
this article prompted me..it kind of exemplifies what I am talking about. The realities of political environmental nonsense are far from the truth of the planet.