Posted on 04/21/2002 3:56:07 PM PDT by grundle
I suggest the book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist' for anyone who wants much more ammo against the Anti-capitalists.
Earth Day 1970 provoked a torrent of apocalyptic predictions. "We have about five more years at the outside to do something," ecologist Kenneth Watt declared to a Swarthmore College audience on April 19, 1970. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that "civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." "We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation," wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment. The day after Earth Day, even the staid New York Times editorial page warned, "Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction." Very Apocalypse Now.
LOL!!! Thanks.
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What happened to that lady who did the ceremonial tree dance? She was gross looking.
Lenin's Birthday according to CO is 22 April/Earth Day.
Last saturday as the anti Israel goons marched was another significant birthday.
20 April = Birthdate of Hitler!
Right! - You get an A.
But he is NOT willing! - He has promised to destroy the Earth "with fervent heat..." - There will be no long term need for it.
ES, God also told us to be good stewards until He does with the earth as He wills.
How we respect His creation until then does matter.
What is Earth Day??? (besides 24 hours)
Well, since you asked. :)
Classic example of parasitical elites creating a massive problem that need not exist in the first place.
Since in reality the environmental issue is a non-starter -- not a problem -- the supposed compassionate do-gooders are faced with the impossible task of creating a solution to nothing. Why impossible? Because when it -- the environment (or any object) isn't broken, it can't be fixed.
Convince enough of the right people that an event is going to occur -- like the end of the world as we know it -- then proclaim "if we don't stop the increasing pollution we'll pay dearly fore it latter." (Never mind that the world is not, and was not, going to end as we know it. That's despite politicians and bureaucrats seemingly saving us from ourselves.)
Solution: raise taxes, empower the EPA, environmental industry, lawyers and special interest groups.
Thirty years latter: "See, we did the right thing thirty years ago on the first Earth Day and now we have thwarted the end of the world as we know it. But...but, but we can't afford to rest on our laurels. We need to allocate even more tax-payer dollars and resources to fighting pollution and dwindling resources."
They -- politicians, bureaucrats, Greens, academia and mainstream media -- have created a problem that is polluting/thwarting an otherwise free market economy. ...And they've been draining like parasites, human time, energy and capital resources.
Their compassion hoaxing schemes collapse upon wide-scope accounting and statistical analysis. Sure, they can create thousand-page environmental studies/reports filled with statistics. Statistics that suit to fulfill their agenda -- fill the need for their compassionate problem solving jobs. But remember, the world was never going to end as we know it and thus their jobs are a waste of time, energy and capital resources. Unfortunately it drastically effects every person, not just the parasites. After all, we are their host and they don't hesitate wasting our time, energy and resources. ...Just as they waste theirs. But what they have, much of it came from taxpayers and the business and science communities. After all, they create nothing, they act as middlemen and money-manager/wealth-redistribution gods.
They do that how? By convincing the external-authority/leader-seeking masses that there's a boogieman waiting around every corner -- the end of the world as we know it. ...And they're -- politicians and bureaucrats -- on the job to protect everybody from the boogieman. Not to mention protect people from themselves.
Summary. Select an irresolvable "problem" and proclaim to work towards creating a solution. Convince other parasitical elites to jump on the bandwagon and then they too can justify their jobs and unearned paychecks while they claim to fix what isn't broken. Yet, in reality they break a free market economy and drain the natural occurring prosperity that comes with a free market.
Side note: How many, or what percentage of environmental laws and regulations have been repealed? Each year congress creates several thousand new laws and regulations. It's enough to make a person wonder how anybody every managed without all that legislation. I mean, at present we don't need the 2,755 laws and regulations that congress will create in 2003, but we will need them in 2003. Likewise, we don't need the 6,500 laws that congress will create in 2008, but we will need them in 2008. During Clinton's eight years in the White House congress created more than 25,000 laws and regulations. Question: had none of those laws and regulations been created, would the world as we know it have ended?
If she was that "gross"... maybe she needed a "net!"
(old accountants yuk yuk)(doublewide grin)
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