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HvySlpr on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 2:11:31 AM
The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Environmentalist Don't Want You to Know About-- Because They Helped Cause Them
Ian Murray
While this book is interesting both in its premise and anecdotes, what is really important is that the author touched on three pillars that describe the environmentalist movement perfectly:
One, environmentalism is a religion.
Two, environmentalism is bad for the environment.
Three, since the fall of communism and its sympathizer’s, environmentalism is the lefts’ newest way of trying to thrust socialism onto the American people
I will not go into the first point, as I have
previously written about the subject. Murray gives ample evidence of how environmentalism hurts, not helps, the environment. In fact, it is the premise of his entire book and at the center of each chapter’s theme. From the horrible fire of Yellowstone National Park to the myth of the Cuyahoga River burning do to over industrialization, Murray consistently applies the principle that socialism (read: environmentalism) is not only bad for the environment but that the cure is more, not less, capitalism. When the reader is forced to sit down and think about such things as the Endangered Species Act (I especially like a farmer’s remark when speaking about what landowners are doing to protect themselves from the statute: “Shoot, shovel, and shut-up”) he or she realizes that it is power, and a return to paganism I believe, not a love for the environment that these followers demand.
Once the reader realizes that environmental policies have contributed to many catastrophes, and is the down-right cause of a host of them, the left’s agenda to vehemently introduce socialism into the American system becomes blatantly obvious. Why else would a group of people adamant about protecting the environment put politics above results (as in the case of controlled burns and land clearing to lessen the damage of wildfires)? The environmental movement wants control above all else. Control over how much you eat, what you eat, how many children you have, what you drive, when you drive, if you drive, where your sources of energy come from, how much, when, and if you can pollute, and an unbelievable laundry list of other such restrictions.
Murray explains, comprehensibly and in layman’s terms, just what the environmental movement has done to people in Africa, America, Europe, and the rest of the world. The author does not only deride “the movement” but offers market-based solutions to many of the environmental problems the world faces with a word I can definitely stand behind: stewardship.
A thoroughly researched, well thought-out commentary on the hypocrisy of the left and environmentalism as a belief structure…like it or not.