[.cnI redruM]

>>>>American and European environmentalists help maintain this grim status quo, even as they claim to pursue the best interests of black, yellow, and brown people the world over. Meanwhile, these first-world citizens enjoy refrigerators, indoor plumbing, Internet access, and CAT scans. This toxic hypocrisy is the core of eco-imperialism.

Dead on. Modern LL Bean Environmentalists are closet racists of the highest order. What could be more hideous than intentionally denying billions the benefits and luxories of a lifestyle these people enjoy daily? Nothing, the Davos Dunderheads and The Sierra CLub Luddites are enemies of decency and progress.

[prion]

Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth, transforms this prejudice into policy. "It's just not possible for people to have the material lifestyle of the average American..."

Ummmm...why not? Is he volunteering to share the material lifestyle of the average African to help redress the injustice?

[farmfriend]

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[swarthyguy]

Hypocrites.

Told an environmental lady once who was bemoaning the crass materialism of America, what're you gonna do when all the Indians and Chinese want dishwashers and washersdryers. There are two Bill of them, y'know.

She said we shouldn't export our lifestyles over there, a little sneaky bit of cultural imperialism there.

When I responded so you condemn all those women to the drudgery of labor intensive household tasks, eco concerns collided with feminist ones, and she had no answer.

Twisting the knife, I added, shouldn't we follow the adage, physician heal thyself, before lecturing others on the wastefulness and spiritual bankruptcy of western life, from the comforts of our climate controlled energy intensive homes inundated with energy derived plastic and paper products.

Some of these nuts really believe that poverty is noble.