[MJY1288]

Kristoff is a mental midget,

I guess the environment is his new avenue for attacking this President

[keithtoo]

The Earth is NOT fragile.

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.

[Bob]

..."modern environmentalism, with all of its unexamined assumptions, outdated concepts and exhausted strategies, must die so that something new can live."

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.

[AF68]

If the environazis want "nuance", they should hire John F'n Kerry. After all, he could use a full-time job.

[exDemMom]

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...

[WOSG]

"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.

[doug from upland]

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.

[Askel5]

=== Some do great work, but others can be the left's equivalents of the neocons: There's a good reason for this ... given the fact that "left" stole its talking points on the environment from alarmists like George "The gravest threat to the human race is human reproduction Bush and the rest of the GOP task force promulgating the 1970 "Earth Resources & Population" report.

[Askel5]

=== 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.

[SlightOfTongue]

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.

[DTogo]

The problem with environmentalists is their own demogoguery and refusal to reasonably discuss issues, and perhaps admit to being wrong once in a while. Such self-righteousness in any view is often shunned.

[CPOSharky]

...single most important issue to Earth in the long run: climate change.

On the scale of millennium maybe, not decades.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Why no one believes environmentalists

[pabianice]

YEEE-HaWWWWWW!

[pabianice]

This guy's an idiot. After bemoaning 35 years of screeching environutso false warnings, he concludes with his own screeching environutso false warnings.

"Hello? Hello! Anyone home, McFly?"

[aculeus]

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.

Fishing is great near those big oil platforms.