Posted on 03/11/2005 8:55:11 PM PST by neverdem
I guess the environment is his new avenue for attacking this President
Enviro's have told so many lies that I woudln't take their word for it if they said the Sun was coming up tomorrow.
The U.S. environmental movement is unable to win on even its very top priorities, even though it has the advantage of mostly being right. Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge may be approved soon, and there's been no progress whatsoever in the U.S. on what may be the single most important issue to Earth in the long run: climate change.
Amazing that he can claim something is a problem in one paragraph and illustrate it so well in the next one.
If the environazis want "nuance", they should hire John F'n Kerry. After all, he could use a full-time job.
Back in the eighties, there were dire warnings that the Earth would only last another ten years unless we took some draconian action.
We took action. We forgot about the warnings. We forgot them so completely and so well that a new book has come out. A new book, urgently warning us that we have about ten years before the Earth goes kaput. (I can't remember where I saw it, in an e-mail or something.)
Plus ça change...
Check it out... here's the essay he's talking about:
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/01/13/doe-reprint/
Looks like their solution is to become even MORE alarmist and hysterical. Their premise appears to be that any deviation from precisely average weather is the fault of human beings.
"We were wrong, but we are still right."
The Chutzbah of these guys ... to say "In the 1970's, the environmental movement was convinced that the Alaska oil pipeline would devastate the Central Arctic caribou herd. Since then, it has quintupled."
... and NOT say: WE WERE WRONG. PERIOD. SORRY FOR BOTHERING EVERYONE. PLEAE IGNORE ENVIRONMENTAL HYPE FROM NOW ON.
That would be more helpful.
This writer makes a very effective case against his own argument.
Show me an environmentalist, and I'll show you someone with a raging, out-of-control Messiah complex.
So we should keep believing him because...?
He started to make some sense. On one hand, he talked about the Caribou doing well after drilling, but Anwar will be bad. I'll give him credit for being less crazy than most of the whackjobs.
Less crazy? In the sense that Pluto is closer to Earth than Sedna?
=== At one level, we're all environmentalists now.
And we can no longer conceive of unplanned children.
Again, he can thank the Pubbies who kicked off our national re-education campaign with nearly 400 million 1970 dollars.
=== Their premise appears to be that any deviation from precisely average weather is the fault of human beings.
Please remember it was no "evil Democrat" like Clinton who legitimated the pseudo science of global warming.
Instead, in June of 2001, it was Bush who conceded that such a thing existed and -- most importantly -- that humans were responsible. This was a critical admission for which the so-called "left" had pushed for years.
But ... what do you expect from a guy who, two months prior while inking the UN's POP treaty, commented: "And now a Republican administration will finish the work of a Democratic administration. This is how environmental policy should work."
Particularly funny when -- as the record will show -- it's the Useful Idiot Dems who are generally doing the Republicans' dirty work on the environment, abortion, birth control and other curiously dehumanizing initiatives.
Can't wait for 'The Death Of The New York Times'. Already dead, in my mind for decades, it's time to look forward to making their "official" funeral arrangements.
Yeah I'm under no illusions about the two-party conspiracy. Just compare the government's spending habits with the rhetoric supporting the latest bankruptcy bill.
How true! They are arrogant elitists. They are absolutely wrong on ALL their assumptions. Environmentalists are absolutely delusional to think man is responsible for climate change. In the long term, environmentalists pose a greater threat than the terrorists to the survival of this Republic. We should be drilling of Alaska, off the coast of Florida and anywhere else there may be oil. We should be building more gasoline refineries. With China increasing demand, there will be big problems with supply in a few years. The environ-devils hope with glee to wreck out economy.
</b> sorry about the bold tag... my mess up :(
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