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Do all of the environmentalists have our best interests at heart?
Before you answer, please read these 3 quotes from prominent environmentalists.
1. “We have wished, we ecofreaks for a disaster or a social change to bomb us into the stone age…”
Stewart Brand writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue.
2. “We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…”
David Foreman, Earth First
3. “If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a souce of clean, cheap, abundant energy…”
Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth – Plowboy interview Nov/Dec. 1977 p.22
Do the above people reflect your views?
Do the above quotes indicate to you that we should be careful and selective with respect to who we take advice from and who our legislators take advice from when crafting laws regarding the environment?
Your thoughts please.
These quotes do show a problem that I have seen for years in the political arena.
That is the extremists of both the right and the left hijack issues that are very important to all of us and attempt to control the debate so that only their voices are heard.
I have been involved with the environmental movement since 1963 and the peace movement since 1965.
In both of those movements they started out as a group of concerned citizens who were trying to make necessary changes to our laws through legislative action and public awareness.
The original people that I knew had only the best interests of all of us at heart.
However I noticed that starting in the late 1960’s some very destructive groups of people became involved with those issues and took those isses over from the people who started them.
These people literally hijacked our issues and organization.
The peace movement became dominated by a group of very hostile anti Amercian people who saw this as a vehicle to weaken America, not improve our lawmaking and the defense of our country.
I noticed similar things happening with the environmental movement.
A very aggressive group of people who saw environmentalism as a means to destroy the economy rather than a means to clean up the environment in a cost effective manner and boost living standards for all of us.
I noticed that these groups of people borrowed our language to make themselves sound like honestly concerned citizens, but their actions were such that the results would be very destructive rather than an improvement.
The issues of peace and a clean environment are more important than ever before.
In my opinion, these issues are so important that is very important that we take these political movements back from the disgruntled antisocial misfits that dominate these issues at the moment.
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