Posted on 06/18/2018 9:47:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I read a book once by either Cussler, Koonts or some other mega popular author where the bad guys were environmentalist animal rights whackos that were going to release a chemical that would kill all of mankind except their chosen thousands living in s protected and sealed building. Then they would, after the poison went innert, venture forward and rule the world as an all natural Utopia of nature as it was meant to be.
They got busted and lost (but they almost won). Their penalty? The twenty or so leaders were stripped naked and dropped off by helicopter into a jungle infested with various types of poison snakes, insects, and carnivorous animals of various sorts.
Conservatives understand that it is a balance. We are to subdue nature, not become part of it. It’s what makes us “in God’s image.”
Compare with conservative rallies and get back to me you tree-hugging twits.
It's true that most Americans consider environmental issues important, but political polls conducted specifically during political campaigns consistently show that the vast majority of them see this as a classic "important, but not right now" issue in every election cycle.
The attitude of a typical American voter can best be described as the following on the day he or she enters the voting booth: "The environment is important, but I'll worry about it later because other things (the economy, jobs, education, crime, health care, etc.) are more important right now."
Guess what happens? "Later" never comes for the vast majority of American voters.
The Federal government has a clear role in addressing environmental issues that affect people across state lines -- which happens to cover a lot of situations.
Nope. Stick with immigration until we have a sensible solution that shuts down the incentives for illegal immigration once and for all time.
It is the Progressives who need to continue scatter-shooting until they find an issue worth discussion. We have ours.
Ever go to a Willie Nelson Concert and observe the tons of garbage that his crowd leave behind?
If you have observed that then go to a BlueGrass festival, you can cary the trash left behind in a hand bag.
Hardly. Millenials favor Democrats because the donks promise them all kinds of free stuff.
Translation: it’s time for conservatives to get on board the junk science train — by calling it “stewardship “.
I’m a Hunter and a Fisherman. I don’t want dirty water or air. I just don’t want men put out of work, because there’s one lily spotted tree newt, 8 miles from their job site.
Hey, millenials, do you consistently:
Set your thermostats to 68 in winter and 76 in summer?
Walk or bike instead of drive?
Drive efficiently when you do drive?
Waste little food?
Minimize lights at night?
Recycle?
Avoid one-use plastics?
Understand energy balance?
Political movements almost never reach 50% buy-in so why are the eco-commies demanding 90%? Short of pointed machine guns that's impossible to get. They should stop wasting time capturing that unicorn and just go full eco-tard in all the places where they live, mainly the cities. Most carbon emissions are in support of the high-spend cliff dwelling lifestyle. Focus on the biggest pollution problems first.
Not easily; but worth doing; because we have seen that a federal agency that has a mandate to guard the envioronment will become overbearing, overly-officious bureaucrats who benefit most when the problem is NOT solved.
The Federal government has a clear role in addressing environmental issues that affect people across state lines -- which happens to cover a lot of situations.
A clear role, yes. That is what the Interstate Commerce clause covers already. A good example would be the air, and rivers.
I, for one, do not “cherish” “National Parks”.
Convince me I should.
That's right, Jerry Brown's papa, the big wig democrat, did nothing.
Hehehe...something about the way you worded that made me laugh...
I ‘cherish’ National Parks. Well, no. I cherish my wife. I cherish my friends. I cherish my Country.
I ‘like’ National Parks!
"It's Time for Conservatives to Address Environmental Issues"
KMA!
That’s it. Simple but oddly satisfying. especially the end.
The abolition of first principles calls for a subversion of the understandings of what virtues and values should have our admiration. Rights are constants and not something to be battled over. When battles of rights begin to occur, the leftist with metaphysical vigor is sure to be behind it.
Rights are generally understood by the conservative to be established, exercised, passed down and for the individual. When leftists promote fake rights they make them collective and they do this with malicious intent. The purpose is to have collective rights of the many, trump individual rights of the real person. (Hat tip, T. Sowell) They use Utilitarian justifications for saying that the “right” of the many should overturn the right of the one.
The “environment” becomes more important than my own, and very real, back yard. The environment becomes what “those that truly care” want it to be and mean, in a metaphysical sense rather than a real sense.
Once they have subverted rules and logic. only they can make the evaluations and rulings that show how the make-beleive environment’s requirements valued by the many that care can demand a solution that takes my freedom in my back yard away.
Central planning and centralized solutions are an integral part of this ignoring of the simple rules for the commons area adopted from time immemorial but hey, there are Socialists to elect, a revolution to have and conservative dinosaurs to kill.
The US is probably the one place that has actually done more to clean up the environment than any other country on earth.
You want to see what neglect of the environment looks like? Go to China, Russia, any current communist country, and most of the third world. There is where the real disasters are.
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