Recently, radical environmentalists have waged a campaign to stifle free enterprise and economic freedom. Here are some of their recent skirmishes, ranging from crop destruction in Australia to attacks on toy companies like Lego and Disney:
- Photos of Greenpeace activists destroying an experimental crop of genetically modified (GM) wheat earlier this month in Australia. They apparently decided that they have the right to act lawlessly and destroy work by scientists designed to feed a hungry world. Even The New York Times rebuked Greenpeace’s actions and argued that the GM wheat field destruction “threatens to completely marginalize the group, and presumably will undercut its credibility when it takes stands on other issues, from climate to palm oil.”
- And this follows a recent high-profile attack that Greenpeace led against iconic Western toy companies Lego, Mattel, Hasbro, and Disney. Greenpeace obviously cares so little about private business growth in the developing world that it has foisted its own skewed version of “Corporate Social Responsibility” on every company it targets until it capitulates to Greenpeace’s anti-growth pressure campaigns. The result is less trade and more constraints on job creation in the developing world.
- Meanwhile, as Walter Russell Mead notes, America’s poorly designed and counterproductive ethanol subsidies (pushed by global warming alarmists and big agribusinesses) are driving up the price of food all over the world and causing terrible hardship to poor families.
- Or take the logging industry out West. In Arizona, environmental groups have used federal laws and regulations to “create a paralysis” within federal agencies—to the point where employees “can no longer manage their lands unless it’s for the fish, the frog or the owl.”
- In Pennsylvania, scientists report that with “fracking” techniques to extract natural gas and reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil, the “typical Marcellus shale well generates about $4 million in economic benefits while generating only $14,000 in economic damages from environmental impacts” (a ratio of 1:285). Yet environmentalists oppose it and have hijacked media outlets like The New York Times to run biased reports against fracking’s key contributions to America’s current and future energy supplies that would be a tremendous catalyst for the country’s economic recovery.
Greenpeace must be a religion. When anyone is using the word "green" today with the support of government, while conduct is destroying anywhere that makes capital, their god is money or destroying it.
The purpose of greenpeace is shown none but progress in counter productivity based only on deception. These areas of dangerous hindrances that trickle to crisis, have to be removed from the world.
The name is camouflage for money destruction. When is America going to get order involving those "special interest groups" whose proven claims are false yet ignored and still given power OVER the people?
Yeah . . Why should anyone care about our dwindling rainforest . . which is what Greenpeace monitors i.e. the source of manufacturing product packaging materials used. We should be making all the money we can until the rainforest is gone . . And we should never report that the manufacturers in question seem to be willing to comply to such environmental standards. Instead we should skew all reporting to demonize any agency that's far-sighted. I just wonder how the notion of Conservativism within the Republican agenda came to mean make money first and don't worry about the environment?
just like a lefty, always misinterpreting and soundly proud to spout what you hear that isn't thoroughly thought through. What's the government doing to prevent human life from being struck by lightening? Children are so brainwashed into thinking someday weather will be controlled by mankind, commercial implying there will only be blue skies and everybody will have the same air to breath. Just a total ignorance of reality…
be a hoot, don't pollute!!!
They (environmenalists) are unbalanced, we need to take a balanced approach to life. Just sayin…
What is it with you people? As far as you people are concerned the simple act of making money is somehow an indication of guilt. You environmentalist whack jobs are very good at one thing. Destroying the lives of the average working person in the areas in which you decide ply your evil trade. Why don't you collectively go get yourselves some real jobs and stop taking them away decent hard working people who are just trying to get by.
Jim, you sound very ignorant . . It appears FOX News is your parish!
Jim, your slander says a lot about you!
What is it with YOU people . . who are quick to label someone who is offering another perspective as somehow not also a hard working American who also is concerned about the environment. You narrow minded WHACK JOBS who think that the point being made is that it's evil to make money. It's not a zero sum game. It is possible . . we are creative . . and intelligent . . and enterprising of a nation to lead economically and have some conscience about the environment. Why don't you COLLECTIVELY take your ignorant responses and take the time to read a little more about both sides of a discussion and perhaps offer a thoughtful statement that helps everyone who is hard working and trying to get by.
I agree with Jim, YOU people and your controlled thinking! You and the like minded think nothing through and your ideas are based on false claims at a cost just to establish senseless, meaningless, inefficient make work. If the environment concerns you then invest YOUR money into it. I DO my part without a second thought and without controlled influence…
Makes perfect sense to me! Try not to be easily offended! That's another mind control issue, YOU people!!!! Have a BEAUTIFUL day!!!!!
Bobbie,
Your posts are consitently ignorant . .
your ignorance is consistently obvious…
These anti-fracking idiots don't realize that fracking is a necessary component of: wind power, geothermal, and carbon sequestration for clean coal, it's not just used for gas.
There was an excellent presentation given at a seminar at the University of Buffalo that covers all forms of energy and the positives and negatives of each alternative.
YouTube video: The Marcellus Shale Lecture Series: John Martin on Energy and the Environment (May 19) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQkuafeB12Q
Please help me to understand how fracking is a necessary component of wind power, and maybe we will be less of an anti-fracking idiot(s).
Jeff, your question simply demonstrates that you, like most other utopian leftist environmentalists, don't understand the laws of physics or thermodynamics. But alas, this is par for the course for people like you who decry "conservatives" as "haters/destroyers of the environment".
The answer to your question is that wind power, due to its intermittence and uneven power supply requires an alternative power supply source to even out the uneveness of the power curve and the intermittence of wind velocity. As such, wind will NEVER do anything more than augment electricity supply, it will NEVER "replace" coal, gas, or nuclear power generation. Natural gas is the only realistic alternative because coal and nuclear cannot be switched on and off on a moment's notice but gas-fired power plants can be switched on and off on a moment's notice.
Facts matter, Jeff.
This is one of many examples of Govt. vs. the private sector. We need a massive push-back from the latter; e.g. replace all politicians who support such environmental projects or other statist agenda.
Democrat Liberals will always call people or groups names if they disagree with any of their policies or agenda items. These Professional Environmental "Nazis" have less to do with environment and more to do with advancing a socialist agenda. They have been so indoctrinated by the Mainstream Media (Obama Administrations propaganda arm) that they are totally against business. These people are trying to make this country into a third world communist dictatorship under Obama and his crroked followers. They are not far from creating a global food shortage and then what? This is exactly why "green" is the new word for "trust me". It is so sad that between Obama's policies and the environmental policies and the unions, the unemployed people in this country don't have a chance. People are to ignorant to see it. I hope they wake up before it is too late.
Per discussion on topic and some excellent points made , the bottom line that no one addresses over this issue regarding pollution is this:
We have crawl across the borders here in American and established numerous industrial complexes around the world , the obvious reasons is the availability for cheap labor._ But the dirty secret that no one want to address is the obvious negating of environmental laws in other countries, that have no restrictions. This keeps America ( pure, untainted, pollution free) and the with the spin of " good well", we pat ourselves on the back saying how, " altruist we American are," in third world counties.
Remember Dow Chemical and India?
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