THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XIII, Issue # 94, April 17, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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EARTH DAY & ENVIRONMENTAL INSANITY
By Alan Caruba
THE INSANITY OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT, ITS RADICAL POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, & THE PUBLIC POLICIES THE
MOVEMENT ADVOCATES: ENVIRONMENTALISM & ENVIRONMENTALISTS DEVOTED TO THE COLLAPSE OF EVERY
SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE OF THE PAST 100 YEARS, ALONG WITH THE CAPITALIST ECONOMIC SYSTEM,
WHICH MADE SUCH HUMAN PROGRESS POSSIBLE
FULL STORY:
Anyone who has been paying any attention to the environmentalist movement has got to have concluded it is insane.
• While the United States stands poised on defaulting on its ever-growing debt — the highest in the nation’s history;
• While wars and insurrections are waged in the Middle East, across northern Africa, and in the Ivory Coast;
• While Japan struggles to deal with a major earthquake and nuclear plant meltdown;
• While Islam wages terrorism worldwide, and
• While European nations attempt to deal with their own financial crisis, the environmentalists — the environmentalist
movement, i.e., the Greens — engage in the most absurd frauds and nonsense since the Dark Ages.
In news from the United Nations — a misnomer if ever there was one — Bolivia is proposing a UN treaty that will give
“Mother Earth” the same rights as accorded to human beings. Bolivia has just passed a domestic law that grants these
rights to bugs, trees, and all other natural things in its own country.
According to the Bolivian proposal, humans have sought to “dominate and exploit” the Earth in ways that threaten the
“well-being and existence of many beings,” such as malaria-bearing mosquitoes, lice and ticks that spread disease, trees
that provide timber for shelter and countless other uses, venomous snakes, and every creature upon which we depend
for food -- beef, chickens, and fish, to name just three.
The Bolivian law, if successful, will end the extraction of all natural resources in that nation, thus effectively plunging it
into insolvency. That is a definition of insanity. It is also a description of the United States of America, where access to
its vast reserves of coal, natural gas, and oil is being systematically denied by the government.
This is occurring as the Environmental Protection Agency continues its effort to declare carbon dioxide (CO2) a
“pollutant” that must be regulated, despite the fact that is vital to all life on Earth.
In America, there has been a resurgence of bed bugs, formerly controlled by DDT. The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) recently awarded $550,000 in grants to the University of Missouri, Texas A&M University, the Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Rutgers University, and the Michigan Department of Community Health, for
bed bug “education, outreach, and environmental justice.” So, instead of authorizing the use of a pesticide to rid us all of
bed bugs, it wants to “educate” us to live with them. That’s insane.
The U.S. Forest Service scientists will hire field crews “to gather information on the conditions of forests from
approximately 1,000 sites in five western states, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington, “for a comprehensive
study on the health of trees in urban areas.” No mention of the millions this will waste, but it is heralded as part of Obama’s
“America’s Great Outdoors Initiative.”
At the same time, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has just announced that the Agriculture Department will spend $1
million in “cost-sharing funding for children’s programs in 18 States and Puerto Rico, furthering USDA’s commitment to
connect young people around the country with America’s great outdoors.” Why?
A rational nation that’s $14 trillion in debt, borrowing 40 cents of every dollar it spends, would not do such things, but the
United States does, while its President calls for higher taxes. And why not? The Obama administration spent up to $200
million to promote Obamacare. While that was happening, 26 States joined in demanding its repeal and a U.S. federal court
judge declared it unconstitutional.
As the nation struggles to reverse an unsustainable trend toward financial doom, Greens are trumpeting an “Extended
Producer Responsibility” program to achieve “waste reduction and increased recycling” that would make manufacturers
“liable for the cost of recycling TVs and other electronics at the end of their useful lives” and alter the way they package
goods. This is not the manufacturer’s responsibility and will increase the cost of everything everyone purchases.
On Earth Day, everyone will be exhorted to engage in “A billion acts of Green” and to purchase “Green” products, all of
which cost more than everything else one purchases in the normal course of everyday life.
We are only now recovering from the greatest fraud of the modern era, “global warming.” The United States wasted an
estimated $50 billion on socalled scientific research, all of which existed for the purpose of advancing this hoax. It is rarely
mentioned any more, except for its fraudulent new name, “climate change.”
As we approach April 22nd, designated “Earth Day,” it would be well to recall that it is the birthday of Vladimir Illich Lenin,
a devotee of Karl Marx and a man who plunged Russia into more than seventy years of Communism, until the Soviet Union
collapsed in 1991.
Environmentalism, worldwide, and in the United States of America, is devoted to the collapse of every scientific and
technological advance of the past century, along with the capitalist economic system, which made such human progress
possible.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/04/earth-day- and-environmental-insanity.html
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Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven "scare campaigns" designed
to influence public opinion and public policy.
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