Listen to Charles Adler and Mark Milke discuss the latter’s new column, Give
a hoot, in which he shreds to pieces the mythology that people on the Left are the
only ones capable of caring about the Earth. Related
Listen to Charles Adler and Mark Milke discuss the latter’s new column, Give
a hoot, in which he shreds to pieces the mythology that people on the Left are the
only ones capable of caring about the Earth. Related
You mean they’re not? Who knew?
The videos showing the aftermath of the Obama and Glen Beck rallies tell it all.
Yuck.
Another concession.
Conservatives already have to pretend to care about “the children” and “the poor,” and now we have to pretend to care about “the Earth”?
Nature sucks. It’s brown and green and full of bugs and poop.
Anybody can enjoy nature and live a minimalist life without being compelled to send their money to third-world dictators.
Environmentalism is not a left-right issue.
Using the UN for redistribution of wealth appears to be a Big Government, left issue.
The people on the left are normally not adept at caring for the planet. Mostly because the hands that should be holding a rake or a shovel are extended too far in front of them, and away their center of gravity!
Milke didn’t describe an unusual “conservative” position but the environmental attitude of most people not radicalized by the union of former communist, socialist and pseudo-environmental campaigners currently vandalizing Western civilization with corporate foundation money. We are witnessing an Orwellian nightmare where the excesses of capitalism are underwriting its demise with green narratives.
Speaking of Lefties NOT caring about the Earth, how on earth were mercury laden curly-cue bulbs EVER allowed to be sold?!?
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/Edison+bulb+Bright+idea+hazardous+waste/4102037/story.html
I’ve found that most “environmentalists” like to TALK about the environment,and criticize any person’s activities they see as harmful to the environment,such as farming,ranching,logging or mining,but they don’t seem to like to do the hard work to clean up the environment.
Our fish and game club has an annual stream cleanup to enhance spawning beds,and it’s a bunch of old timers, hunters and farmers, out doing the work,and not a single environmental activist to be seen.
When I was a Forestry technician in the B.C.F.S.,every fire season we needed help to put out the fires, but in eleven years I saw only one or two “greens” out on the fire lines,
usually loggers and Indians doing the dirty work.
Too many of the people who love Nature live in the cities and have no idea how things operate outside their paved and overbuilt jungle,so they idealise or Disney-fy nature. They usually do more harm than good with their unrealistic policies.
@ John Chittick, like Lenin said, (paraphrased) the capitalist will sell me the rope with which to hang him.
If you want to see the difference between countries in eastern Europe operating under socialism for many decades, even two decades after it collapsed there, just go visit any number of them and see the mess that they are now trying to clean up.
It was like one big union shop and nobody gave a rip except to get or steal as much as they could and give as little as possible.
A Conservative environmentalist would be one that focuses on things that are actually bad. Like, for -humans-. Things like mercury, sulfur dioxide, pine beetles…
What is he,a talking road sign? “SUV” “Ontario”, I hope he enjoys his Yugo:)
As a conservative i am all for preserving our beautiful land scapes and our forest’s and all of that but if it means that i have to give up one extra dime of my money forget it there are better way’s to preserve our beautiful lush natue than to tax humans to death .
tree’s are a renewable resource ,oil is despite what other say is a renewble resourse it takes awhile but it is created by the earth’s natural processes, fish seals are all renewable resourses.
deer are renewable resources .
Anyway i am all for doing what ever we need to do to continue forward but we need to do it with compassion and responsiblity, and accountability.
we can’t just harvest all of the oil and do nothing to put thing’s right with nature after we are done i don’t like that . but the truth is nature can and does sort itself out.
short story my grandpa farmed since the late fiftieso n the same farm …he would roll the combineso ut ,tractors out in the same spot and drain transmission and engine oil and what ever right onto the ground our farm year was dirt and oil …in 1997 after they retired 4 years later there was grass every where and weeds and friken stupid rabbit’s and gophers and bird all over the place the very place that was “dead” not to long ago.
Anyway i love nature and i think hunters and oil producers and pulp and paper mills and fisherman so on and so forth have a huge vested intrest in preserving and renewing these things as it is there livley hood .
Anyway that is just my thought’s
Not only did I hug a tree, I fell in love with a lovely red cedar and now we are very happily married.
Sorry, Mr. O’Donnell, but that’s barking mad!