Greens’ Goddess

Environmentalism is a luxury, and like all such, is best taken in moderation. The environment requires protection, but that’s all. Primitive panthiesm has no place in this millennium. Nature is not an utterly benign continuum, and human beings are not a disease. Pseudo-religious environmentalism has long outlived its welcome. It’s time to bring down the curtain.

J.R. Dunn hit the nail on the head with this one.

The Enviros are so busy shooting themselves in the foot with anthropgenic global warming that they didn’t see this on the horizon. They enjoyed a “perfect storm” of environmental disasters in the last 40 years or so that gave them credibility and lots of push when it came to getting what they wanted.

But, now, a lot of their cherished, foundational excuses for their Utopian social engineering are beginning to crumble in the face of the truth of real, honest-to-goodness scientific fact. The global-warming club they were using to beat us into submission six months ago has become a limber switch, as the world’s average temperatures slide downward instead of up, their data having been erroneous from the beginning, thanks to a Y2K-related computer glitch. Proof that polar bears are prodigious swimmers, that the “photographic evidence” of the lorn bear on the ice was a setup, that open water appears at the North Pole EVERY SUMMER has poked a hole in their “rising oceans/shrinking ice fields” scam. And so it goes.

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Unlike the Goddess-worshippers, I believe most good citizens are conservationists. We are good stewards of the world around us, and we police our spaces without having to be beaten into it. It has long been the unspoken policy of Alaskans and others who live close to the wildernesses of the world to be as careful as possible about our surroundings. Americans, especially, are wealthy enough to afford to be careful in our use of natural resources.

But “being careful” is not the same thing as locking it up and throwing away the key, which is what the environmental religionists are trying to do (ever since Bill Clinton’s self-serving sequestering of the prodigious anthracite coal deposits near Escalante, Utah, in return for campaign donations from the Riyadi family of Indonesia, who owned the only other large anthracite deposit in the world).

We belive in careful, conservation-savvy utilization of the world’s resources, and we have methods now that can utilize these resources with a minimum of disturbance to the surrounding countryside.

The environmental religion is just that–a religion–and a fundamentalist one, at that. Those of us who believe in common-sense, conservation-minded utilization of natural resources don’t enjoy having the fundamentalists’ enviro “gospel” shoved down our throats by unkempt zealots, sleazy politicians, or sanctimonious lefty college professors in Birkenstocks, wire-rimmed spectacles and facial hair.

We believe in using our resources (see above) carefully and wisely. We will worship the Creator of all these resources, and I’ll have my Green Goddess on my salad, please.