From what I have observed the environmentalists and liberals in general seem to major on hysteria and crisis. They try to get the nation and the world hysterical about things that are not really that much of a problem. They also use the idea that it’s better to be safe than sorry and they are well aware that we as a people have become a hysterical and fearful people.
Because there’s a chance that some baby might put some toy in his mouth and choke on it toys must be a certain size to protect us from ourselves and our bad parents who certain don’t care as much about their children as the government regulators.
Anything that deals with electricity must have ridiculous labels on them advising not to use in the bathtub or the swimming pool. If someone is so stupid they’re going to bring a toaster in the pool with them do they really think they’re going to be smart enough to read the label and then obey it?
Then along comes the environmentalists who have everyone in a dither about CO2 and global warming. Of course now that it’s been shown that things aren’t warming up they have decided to call it climate change. Well of course the climate is change it does that every day of every year as well as at night. This is not a cause for alarm, except in the weak minds of environmentalists. They tell us not to use trees even though there are 200% more trees in the U.S. now than there were when our founding fathers came here. But please ignore the facts or pretend they’re wrong. We certainly can’t drill for oil, that too will ruin the environment. Of course the Middle East has been doing it for 80 years and their environment isn’t ruined. They have not killed ever creature within a hundred miles. They haven’t caused all kinds of species to go extinct by doing it, but that doesn’t mean we won’t. In fact the hysterical environmentalists are sure that it will be the destruction of the whole world even though the proposed drilling areas are only a few thousand acres spread out of 1000’s of square miles. But again, don’t let facts get in the way!
This hysteria is necessary if the minority is to impose their rule over the majority. There are now protected classes of people, who get more protection than the rest of us. There are protected species though they are in no danger whatever. Hysteria and crisis are the words of the day. As several of our top leaders have said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” If there isn’t a crisis then it always helps to create one.
If the earth wasn’t warming then it would be cooling. Does anyone really believe the earth was meant to stay exactly the same temperature all the time and if so what is that temperature supposed to be? Is it supposed to be what’s best for us? Is it supposed to be what’s best for polar bears at the expense of other animals? Who’s to say what it’s supposed to be? These are questions that are never asked and certainly never answered.
Just because the earth is the right temperature in one place doesn’t mean it will be the right temperature in other places. Again, these are things that never are questioned and the environmentalists brush these questions aside and jump back to their talking points, because it’s more about fear and hysteria than it is about reality and facts.
These alarmist environmentalists have developed a brilliant time tested strategy for silencing those with common sense, they call it political correctness. They silence people with common sense by making them sound unreasonable, uncaring, unintelligent, and by saying such ridiculous things as, “everyone knows”. After all if there’s a consensus it must be true. We know this because at one time there was a consensus among scientists that the sun moved around the earth… Oh, wait a minute; the scientists were wrong about that one. But other than that when they’ve had consensus they’re always been right! Or when they were sure there were only 7 planets. No, make that 8… no make it 9, no we were wrong again Pluto is now a planetoid so we’re back to 8. But didn’t they all agree on this so doesn’t that make it so.
Consensus in the 70’s was that we were heading toward an ice age. I’m sure they’re more than happy that most people have forgotten that one. Now it’s global warming, or maybe it is cooling again.
In the 70’s it was also the consensus of scientists that we only had 30 years at most left of oil in the world and then we would run out. Of course when that realization started to go away they had to find some other way to get us to stop using oil so then it because global warming because of all the oil we were burning. Well if that’s the case just because we use ethanol doesn’t stop us from putting CO2 in the area. Combustion does that, not just oil.
But if you doubt them you can be sure you’ll be shouted down. The media are all afraid to declare reason. They even help with the politically correct crowd. They seem to feel they have no obligation to reason only to report what others say no matter how absurd it may be to anyone with common sense.
I wonder sometimes what these people would do if every excuse for doing what they’re doing was taken for them. These people seem to have nothing better to do in life than try to make people believe they are the biggest blight on the environment since evolution began. This actually only belies the fact that they don’t really believe in evolution or at least that we are not the top of the evolutionary chain or else it would be incumbent upon them to continually say how the world revolves around us and everything in it must be for us rather than the earth itself being central and the all of human existence revolves around the world and every other creature that exists in it and that humans actually come last on the evolutionary chain. You can’t have it both ways. Either we are at the top or we are at the bottom. The only other option which they absolutely cannot abide is that there is no evolutionary change and that man is at the top because we were created to be so and that we are actually supposed to be stewards of the earth.
I personally believe this is the only mindset that makes sense if we are to believe that we should be responsible with what we have. If all there is, is evolution then there is no real reason for us to treat the rest of evolution as being superior in importance to man.
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