Posted on 04/21/2007 11:27:48 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
AS we mark the 38th Earth Day tomorrow, it's worth noting that this secular "religion" has led many Americans to fervently believe some things that just aren't true.
Environmentalist values plainly deserve a place in making public policy. But we shouldn't be guided by myths that are provably false.
Yet a recent survey by Zogby International for the Manhattan Institute found that, when it comes to energy and the environment, the public is more inclined to believe myths than to have a firm grasp of basic facts.
Polling 1,000 average Americans on assorted energy and environmental issues, we found a wide disconnect between what people "know" and what is actually true.
What are the myths propagated by the Church of Environmentalism? Consider the pronouncements from the greens' "Vatican": Last Earth Day, Greenpeace USA exhorted its followers to action because "our forests are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate." More, we must switch to "clean alternative" energies like wind power, because "we all know that fossil fuels contribute to global warming."
A lot of people agree. Nearly 67 percent of those in our survey said they believe human activity, such as logging and development, is shrinking our forests. It seems self-evident; after all, the population continues to grow, and we build more and bigger buildings. So why wouldn't we be losing forestland?
But it's not so. Yes, the United States lost forestland throughout much of the 19th century, as the new nation grew - but the amount of forestland stabilized throughout much of the 20th century.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
More at the link.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Al Gore is the Pope of the Environmental Mother Earth Universal Church.
Al Gore said that we will reach “the point of no return” in ten years.
Al Gore foresees that an environmental Armageddon will be upon us.
Al Gore is apparently is a prophet of this secular church.
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Al Gore is apparently is a prophet of this secular church.
At least you no longer see the public schools embark on a full-blown pagan holiday to celbrate Earth Day. The dirt-worshippers seem to have receded a little.
You misspelled "profit".
Last week my son was in a 4-H District competition. The category was General Science. There were two kids that did their projects on Global Warming, one of these kids won.
Make no mistake, public schools are still pushing this agenda, hard.
For a real eye opener on how delusional some of these folks are visit
http://treehugger.com
http://www.inhabitat.com
Two of the many Green sites that abound n the net.
Many articles, many nutcases.
Lets not forget that Earth Day was started by Ira Einhorn who murdered his girlfriend and fled to France where he lived for years.
This is a great article and should have wider exposure. I printed it out so I could teach about it in my college class. It is easy to understand and should be taught in all schools. Too bad the socialist pacificists who are so PC and apostates in religion will not allow it.
Always, calamity is just “ten years in the future”.
These “ten yearses” have been piling up all my life, and still the end is nowhere near in sight, if there is an end.
Now, there WAS a serious calamity that struck in the years 1928 through 1935, a huge drought that gripped the land, and caused mass migrations, the likes that had not been seen for centuries. Then, the Federal government “did something” about the various crises back then, pouring literally hundreds of millions of very REAL dollars (back when a dollar was worth maybe $40 today) onto the problems, with no visible change to the circumstances of anybody, except to prolong the agony. Not until the outbreak of WW II did the Great Depression really end.
Think it might be the sun? Nahhh!
* More than four of every five poll respondents said that our cities are getting dirtier.
Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga river would burn and Lake Erie was virtually dead. Now, they are both much cleaner.
30 years ago, I remember my grandmother sweeping soot off her front walk every day. Soon after, they installed scrubbers on the foundry chimneys and the soot disappeared.
Cars are much cleaner, the air is cleaner, rivers are cleaner, there are more wild animals.
Environmentalists should celebrate the successes of the past 40 years, yet they continue to preach gloom and doom.
He spells it out so much clearer in “harry potter and the balance of earth”
I remember when they had the big Earth Day concert on the Washington Mall, they spent two days cleaning up all the trash the concertgoers left behind.
Judging from conversations I overhear from them, they don't take him seriously at all. They actually make fun of him.
Maybe they're confusing traditional forms of pollution with the increased numbers of homeless people defecating on the sidewalks and "camping" in the parks.
Cars are much cleaner, the air is cleaner, rivers are cleaner, there are more wild animals.
There were times 30 years ago that smog was so thick on the Riverside Freeway (SoCal) that I literally could not read the overhead signage until right on top of an exit.
40 years ago, my eyes ran, my throat burned, my lungs ached, and I coughed my guts out walking to the San Francisco Muni station from work, during rush hour.
And, thanks to his invention of that Internet thingie, he doesn't even have to waste money on bottles & labels for his snake-oil.
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