But The Council has asked me not to speak of such things, so I shall remain silent.

I am for a clean environment like anyone else, but we have reached the insanity stage. I am still waiting on ’60 minutes’ to do a follow report on the island, they said would be under water by now. Do they ever do follow-up reports on their outlandish global warming doomsday predictions?

Or has anyone in the MSM ever challenged the wild pronouncements from the original earth day celebration in 1969. Here are a few from that day:

1)75% to 85% of all living animal species will be extinct by the year 2000.
2)The world will be 11 degrees cooler in the year 2000.
3)It is to late to avoid mass starvation and the average age of death will be 41 in the year 2000.
4)By 2000, the U.S. population will have declined to 22.6 million people.

And let’s not forget Al Gore’s hero and mentor, Professor Paul Ehrlich, who stated in 1968, “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000″.

This reminds me of the lunatic preacher in the 1840′s, that kept predicting the end of times, and people would believe him over and over again. He was a nut, and these people are just as nutty.

This planet is a VERY large place and NO Human efforts can destroy it. Humans can destroy themselves, but that is inevitable. It won’t be piles of garbage that destroyes the human race or DDT or CO2. It will be the destruction of the family structure that is the foundation of Civilization.
No civilization and humans are just animals. Animals without much in the way of claws, teeth or other survival skills.

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5296OE20090310?sp=true

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315224258.htm

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Po-Re/Pollution-of-the-Ocean-by-Plastic-and-Trash.html

A few links for reference. I agree people that sensationalize the issue are corrupt, like the example you mentioned. However it does not address the problem; there is more trash being added to the Environment than earth can handle.

Sail and Boating groups are organizing, hunting groups, scientists, cities are investing in cleaning up their beaches and waterways. This is not right/left , conservative / liberal issue, it is a safety and health issue.
We have become removed from agriculture and farming and do not connect what we eat and drink with earth any longer, it is a supermarket or restaurant. No matter how well we dress up the veggies, fish or steak, where it came from is far more relevant than how it looks in the wrapper.

The best ecologists are hunters, they understand the relationship between animals and environment, if deer and elk dont find lush forest, they move on. The same with Fish, they will not remain in areas that continually decline, they die out or move on. We can raise cows and pigs a bit easier these days, but a dirty farm will create conditions for desease and then forced culling of the animals. Unfortunately hunting is declining, fishing and farming have become corporate ventures.

Its a bit unnerving when people expect to live in a clean house, but cannot connect the dots to a clean earth. Nobody on this thread would ask their kid to swim in a polluted river, but when it comes to cleaning up the river there seems to be blockage in the reasoning process and the labels come out, groundless accusations are made, resistance is brought forward, and the environment keeps getting worse.

Its not brain surgery, if we think a clean house and kitchen is important enough, then so is the environment that provides the food on our table and water in our glass.

16 – I’ve never seen a photo of an intelligent conservative and yet you claim they exist.

Google for a photograph of William F. Buckley; or Patrick J. Buchanan; or Dwight D. Eisenhower; or THOUSANDS more. You Leftists do know how to Google for something other than free stuff on the taxpayers, don’t you?

Of course, we don’t know that McCook was talking about annual consumption, but most likely he was, or he had heard it from someone who was. So an appropriate criticism of him would be to say that he’s talking about a tiny savings as if it were large, but instead you bought into his idea that it was large. There are too many foolish errors in PajamasMedia articles, and yours is an example.

Bill

Al Gore’s Earth Day has nothing to do with spirituality, everything to do with Socialism. Our colleges teach the “science” of Environmentalism, draw hordes of new students every year, eager to turn their backs on the evil materialism which made it possible for them to attend, and send them out by the thousands to make this a better world. They don’t go out to work in the earth, however. With their degree in Environmental Science they go straight into the government or large politically correct private corporations to tell us all what we can’t do to in order to “protect our fragile planet”.

Environmentalism, today, is simply a virulent form of anti- capitalism, an organized branch of Socialism, one of the most successful avenues of indoctrinating young people, the Alinsky community organizer types that provided Obama with his “grassroot” support to election.

There is nothing spiritual or all-embracing about these Earth Worshipers. Their’s is a Faith more dangerous than the Wiccans: rigidly fundamental, abusively intolerant, aggressively in-your-face, punitive. Totally Luddite, economy-destroying Socialism. Alinsky/Ayers/Axelrod style, The CHANGE we are all waiting for.

The global warming groupies are nothing more than a front for socialists/communists that wish harm to the American economy. Many trees could be saved by doing away with all the liberal newspapers.

Owlgore and GE are just waiting for Obama and his ilk to pass the cap and trade bill to cash in.

It’s all about me. And Telly. But mostly me.