Posts with the tag 'Environmentalism'
In a follow-up to a previous post, I submit for your approval a primer of how to ensure that we remain enslaved to third-world tinhorn dictators, jihadists and other whackos like Ahmadinejad and Chavez:
First, take a means of harvesting our own oil:
U.S. District Judge David Lawson of Detroit ruled Thursday the agency had acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in 2005 by giving Savoy Energy LP of Traverse City a permit to drill an exploratory well near the Au Sable River’s south branch.
The proposed wellhead would be located in the Huron-Manistee National Forest about three-tenths of a mile from the Mason Tract, a 4,679-acre wilderness area prized by anglers and other outdoor recreationists.
Forest supervisor Leanne Marten said when approving Savoy’s application that the project wouldn’t significantly harm the environment and the company would be required to keep noise to a minimum.
Next, take two enviro-whacko groups whose true aim is to ensure that the United States ends up a third-rate power and a third-world conglomeration of collectives, reduced to living in squalor in thatched roofs, and for good measure bring along a willing accomplice whom they’ve shamed into acquiescing:
Two environmental groups, the Sierra Club and Anglers of the Au Sable, sued the government to halt the drilling. Joining the suit was Tim Mason, whose grandfather, auto executive George Mason, donated the original 1,200 acres to the state upon his death in 1954 and asked that it be maintained as wilderness.
Then, get an activist leftist puke of a judge who sees things the way they do:
But the judge ruled the Forest Service didn’t consider how degrading the area could harm tourism,
Next, find a spotted owl or a caribou. If there are no spotted owls or caribou in the area, find another obscure species of flora or fauna to prop up as a defenseless cute critter who will suffer a woeful existence and/or disappear from the face of the earth if development takes place. Never mind that it won’t be the case. In trying to accomplish such a noble cause as destroying the United States, one must never let the truth get in the way of crippling the U.S. economy. The end, after all, justifies the means
“[The judge]…said the agency did a “woefully inadequate” job of evaluating how the drilling might affect the Kirtland’s warbler, an endangered songbird that nests in the area.”
And that, my friends, is how to ensure that we become a third world, third-rate nation, courtesy of your local friendly environmentalist/socialist whacko.
Shakespeare’s Henry VI was incomplete in his assessment that what was needed in the world was first to “kill all the lawyers.” He would have been more prescient if he included the radical environmentalists in his calculations.
Tags: energy policy, Environmentalism
July 12th, 2008
I, along with Gary Gross, Ed Morrisey, Noel Sheppard, and other bloggers. were asked to participate in a conference call (broadcast live on the Ed Morrisey Show) with U.S. Republican Representatives Michele Bachmann, Dr. Phil Gingry, Tom Price, Eric Cantor, Marsha Blackburn, and Adam Putnam.
Unlike the democrat majority, who are uttering the unbelievable Sierra Club meme that “We can’t drill our way into energy independence,” the Republican contingent in the U.S. House has a comprehensive plan that is designed to drill and otherwise make our way back into $2.00 per gallon gas.
According to our Republican representatives, we have the ability to extract 1.3 trillion barrels of oil from shale reserves; not to mention the millions of barrels of oil that we can extract from ANWR and the Continental Shelf.
They responded to criticisms leveled from the democrat side that if Nancy Pelosi was to bring a bill by July 4th, it still wouldn’t be a fix , since it would take ten years to retrieve the supply.
But they explained there is a significant upward pressure in the prices due to the current market and conditions, with the knowledge that the U.S. won’t pursue its own supplies. An opening of those resources will send a signal that we are going to join oil producing nations, and will send a message to speculators that will result in an immediate decrease on the upward pressure on prices.
(As an aside, by using that same logic, we would have today been enjoying the fruits of ANWR oil, had Bill Clinton not vetoed that legislation back in the mid 1990s.)
We’ve got the technology and the ability to explore in the deep waters off the coast and to do it in an environmentally safe way.
When the point was brought out to the Representatives of the fact that the majority party in congress is beholden to the interests of the extreme environmental lobby, they were nontheless optimistic that the democrats would eventually see the light and serve their larger constituencies.
Gary Gross has more on the call here.
During the conference call, the contingent of U.S. Representatives stated that they were honored to be communicating their policy to bloggers, and stated that bloggers were a driving force in the energy conversation; and that emails and letters come to their office from constituents who had read about the issues on blogs. Michele Bachmann stated that she is grateful to the blogosphere for the continual end-around that they perform around the agenda media in getting the facts out. Congressman Bachmann stated that she hoped to have similar events slated in the near future.
Truth be told, the democrats and the extreme environmentalist lobby are the only things standing in the way of our ability to move past economic stagflation and on toward the promise of true prosperity. The current condition of our economy and our current energy woes are inextricably linked, and blame for our sorry state of affairs can be placed directly at their feet.
We are in the midst of an increasing clamor in our nation over the undue pain caused by high fuel prices, and the extreme environmental lobby and their willing democrat (and RINO) accomplices will need to answer to an increasingly frustrated constituency; either now, or at the ballot box in November.
Tags: Congress, energy policy, Environmentalism
June 19th, 2008
President Bush, thanks for speaking out for sanity.
(CNSNews.com) - “The United States has an opportunity to help increase the supply of oil on the market,” thereby easing gasoline prices for hard-working Americans,” President Bush said on Monday.
He reminded Congress that he has proposed opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Continental Shelf to domestic oil drilling — something that would “help us through this difficult period.”
You almost had, it, Mr. President. If you had pushed harder on what you proposed earlier in your presidency, we would be nearing the end of this mess in which we find ourselves, or at the very least we’d be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. But after the usual suspects of enviro-whackos, along with their willing shills in Congress did their normal routine of wailing and gnashing of teeth, instead of holding your ground on the matter, you backed off. Rather than rallying the American people to the need for harvesting our own domestic energy reserves, you instead took a page from the Eisenhower playbook and played golf with regard to the issue. You even went so far as to play right into the envirowhackos hands, simultaneously increasing the credibility of their argument while weakening yours.
And you almost had it today, Mr. President. You almost had it on the nuts.
But then you went and said this:
“We remind our friends and allies overseas that we’re all too dependent on hydrocarbons, and we must work to advance tech that help us become less dependent on hydrocarbons,” Bush said on Monday as he headed out to Europe.
One step forward, three steps back.
Mr. President, now’s not the time to humor the delusional fancies of the crazy uncles in the attic making life a living hell for the rest of the family. You’re damned right we’re
“addicted” to oil; in much the same manner as we’re “addicted” to air and to food. So what? We’ve got plenty of it if our legislators would finally quit kowtowing to the crazy uncles in the enviro-whacko movement and act in the interests of the American people for a change.
Screw the enviro-whackos. When the hell were they ever right? About anything?
We have the technology to harvest our own resources in a way that minimally disrupts the surrounding environment; in many cases augmenting it.
Mr. President, you have a nation that’s bleeding from the ears economically, and you have it within the scope of your office to issue executive orders to stop that bleeding. May I add that, given that we’re in the midst of an economic emergency, and given that our nation’s economic security is at risk, it would not be a misuse of your power under executive authority to do so.
And what greater a presidential legacy to leave your fellow Americans, than to decrease their dependence on foreign oil?
Tags: energy policy, Environmentalism, President Bush
June 9th, 2008
Time Magazine cheapens the sacrifices made by WWII vets:
Comparing what amounts to tilting at windmills (literally) to the threat once posed by imperial Japan and Nazi Germany shows a blatant level of ignorance.
But mind you, this is the same magazine that took the jihadists’ word that there was a “massacre” at Haditha, and ran with it.
Then again, could anyone expect any more from the bunch of self-centered liberal ingrates that make up the editorial board at Time?
Tags: Environmentalism, Iraq Campaign, Iwo Jima, Time Magazine, WWII
April 18th, 2008
While the Truth shall, indeed, set you free, our leftwing leaders have decided that a fat paycheck is worth a lot of lies and arrogance:
Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.
The former American Vice-President was also accused of being “precious” at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.
Many of the audience at last month’s Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.
The glittering fundraiser was held in The Royal Courts of Justice and attracted world leaders, entrepreneurs and celebrity activists including Bob Geldof, Darryl Hannah and Jerry Hall, who was there as “a Special Ambassador of The Alliance for a New Humanity”. Guests had paid between £1,000 and £50,000 to attend.
But a source told The Mail on Sunday: “Many guests looked tired and began to talk among themselves during his speech. Heads began to twitch with tiredness.
“Al uses his position for great personal gain. He goes from event to event delivering a similar speech, earning a large fee, and a lot of the time he doesn’t actually inform the audience.
I wonder how long it will take before the rank and file lefties realise that each of their icons has been a con artist living a high life off of them? As I’ve noted before, if I were a man willing to be quite dishonest I could gain wealth and fame if I were to merely change my blogging name and, by using fictitious reports and studies, were to start writing anti-Bush/anti-American/anti-Christian polemics. It wouldn’t matter what I said provided I blamed Bush/America/Christianity - no lefty would actually examine anything I asserted as fact and when conservative bloggers and writers would start to demonstrate conclusively that I’m lying, the lefties who bought my initial BS would rise to my defense rather than admit they were fooled.
One of the greatest ironies of modern times is that our lefties stoutly assert that they are part of the “reality based community” - this a sly dig at both religious believers and the supposed lack of intellectual curiosity on the right in general. It is easy to make a list of BS the left believed - Mumia, Farenheit 911, Tawana Brawley, Joe Wilson, October Surprise, Florida 2000, torture at Gitmo…as each and every leftwing story is proven not just false, but laughably false, the left just ignores the facts - the reality - and MovesOn as if nothing had changed. A constant refrain of mine here on the blog is my asking of lefty critics to think about things. Just think - consider everything in context and ask the question: Is there anyone advocating this who is gaining personally from it?
As to why Gore got into environmentalism, I don’t know - and for all I know, he got into it with the purest of motives. Whatever the initial motivation - and whatever Gore tells himself when he looks at himself in the mirror these days - the plain fact of the matter is that he’s milking the issue of global warming for personal gain. And, beyond that, he’s either been convinced or convinced himself that he’s a superior being on the strength of his advocacy of the theory of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming. While he still might have interesting things to say on the subject, anyone with any sense at all knows that anything he says must be taken with a grain of salt - his whole public persona and a very large amount of his yearly paycheck is dependent upon his being right about what he advocates. This means he’s unlikely to even listen to anyone who has a contrarian point of view - Gore, unless he’s a man of extraordinarily strong character, is unlikely to ever admit he’s wrong on global warming; he owns “doom and gloom” on it, and a reversal would be humiliating and only a man who has freed himself entirely from the sin of pride could bear to admit he’s wrong - and demanding a special VIP room is not the act of a humble man.
You know, I know - the guy down the street knows. Our lefty friends, however, don’t know - and they don’t want to know. Since Gore says what they want to hear about the isse of global warming and just so long as he keep singing out of the lefty hymnal on the subject, the leftwing rank and file will defend him against all comers. Not only conned, but quite happily conned; that is our modern left. Its easier than thinking, I guess.
Tags: Al Gore, Environmentalism, global warming, Lefting Ideology
December 10th, 2007
The left is filled with good intentions - and, of course, the road to perdition is paved with same:
Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers - and a voice calling her Mummy.
But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.
Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.
Incredibly, so determined was she that the terrible “mistake” of pregnancy should never happen again, that she begged the doctor who performed the abortion to sterilise her at the same time.
He refused, but Toni - who works for an environmental charity - “relentlessly hunted down a doctor who would perform the irreversible surgery.
Finally, eight years ago, Toni got her way.
At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to “protect the planet”.
Incredibly, instead of mourning the loss of a family that never was, her boyfriend (now husband) presented her with a congratulations card.
While some might think it strange to celebrate the reversal of nature and denial of motherhood, Toni relishes her decision with an almost religious zeal.
“Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet,” says Toni, 35.
Having children is selfish. Other examples of this sort of thinking:
Black is white
Up is down
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
I can hear it now from our lefties - “who are you to judge this woman making her own decision?”. Well, I don’t judge her. Matter of fact, if anything, I feel sorry for her - sorry that one of my fellow human beings can be so bamboozled by a species of leftwing thinking that she’d feel it was her duty to murder her child and be sterlised for a alleged higher good.
If you read further into the linked article you’ll see that Ms. Vernelli is a vegetarian and lives as “green” as she can - she’s helping save the planet. For whom? Of what worth is the planet without human beings to appreciate it and use it? Think about it, people: eventually this world will be gone. And that is whether or not you’re a believer or unbeliever - no matter how you slice it, wrath of God or just plain physics, eventually this world will end. If you “save” the planet then you are saving it for destruction…like reaching into a fire to pull out a piece of wood, and then leaving it there for the next camper who will then burn it.
If you ever wonder why I am so ardently opposed to leftwing thinking, it is because of this sort of thing. The despair and selfishness evident in Ms. Vernelli’s life is inherent in leftwing thought. I refuse to live a life of hopelessness like that.
Tags: abortion, culture of death, Environmentalism, global warming
November 24th, 2007
You’ll first note that the “tags” on this entry include both “global warming” and “climate change”. The reason for this is because the global warming business is in the process of re-branding itself as the “climate change” industry - this because “climate change” is entirely non-specific and can be used to say that anything happening is the dire result of insenstive, greedy, racist, corrupt, sexist, imperialistic and homophobic (and necessarily American) action in the world. In other words, you can jam a lot more leftwing BS into “climate change” than you can into “global warming” - especially as there hasn’t been any increase in global mean temperatures for nearly a decade now.
Anyways, there is the new IPCC report out which re-hashes all the usual nonsense about global warming - this news story has a rundown of the “key findings”…among these findings, I found this one very interesting:
Global warming is “unequivocal.” Temperatures have risen 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 100 years. Eleven of the last 12 years are among the warmest since 1850. Sea levels have gone up by an average seven-hundredths of an inch per year since 1961.
So, we’re in a tizzy over, what? The prosepct of another 1.3 degrees over the next century? Or is it that we’re worried that by 2107 sea levels will have risen 7 inches?
To add a bit of kick to the report, they claim that between 20 and 70% of all species on earth will become extinct if we don’t act now to reverse this - as if they (a) know how many species there are on earth, (b) really know how much the temperature will increase, (c) know how even 1% of the world’s species will react to higher temperatures. The only thing we can be certain about is that environmentalist whackos won’t become extinct.
UPDATE: Scrappleface completely disposes of the climate change alarmism.
Tags: Environmentalism, global warming, IPCC, U.N.
November 18th, 2007
