PoliticalChic
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I enjoy the fact that bears have some place to live. Protect their habitat. What is wrong with saving some forest lands from human corruption? It is pure common sense. If you don't believe in this then you think Chinese air is safe to breathe. Look at what industry has done to that country..turned it into a god forsaken pit.
" human corruption?"
Oh,no...another imbecile.
Imbecile? Because they'd like to save some land for wildlife? Because they think the results of the unfettered industrialization practiced by the Chinese for the last several decades are undesirable? That it's something we ought try to avoid? You've got some odd priorities there.
"Ownership is not only a right, it is a duty.Ownership obligates Use your property as if it had been entrusted to you by the people."
Oswald Spengler
On which side of Spengler's comment do you stand? It's not clear.
- Born out of a fear that pastoral lands would be overrun by developers, the environmentalists practice āfortress conservation,ā the typical form of conservation everywhere. It involves locking down as much land as possible and practicing ānatural regulation,ā which means no one touches it! Ever. Not even ādisturbing the vegetation.ā
- Now, for most of recorded history, humans have practiced adaptive management of resources., i.e., when a problem crops up, we solve it. If we want a landscape, we create one; a working forest, ditto.
- Rangeland, farmland, townscapes- all can be managed for bounty and health of resources and people!
- But ānatural regulationā began in the 1960ās in almost all land-use agencies in the world and quickly became the preferred method by which all resources and land were to be managed. Over the past five decades, natural regulation has been adapted almost everywhere. Nature knows best.
- To environmentalists, man is a virus and a despoiler and must be controlled!"Eco-Fascists," Nickson, chapter two.
From Wikipedia's article on Environmentalism
Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements. Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and/or improvement of the natural environment, and may be referred to as a movement to control pollution or protect plant and animal diversity.[1] For this reason, concepts such as a land ethic,environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly.
At its crux, environmentalism is an attempt to balance relations between humans and the various natural systems on which they depend in such a way that all the components are accorded a proper degree of sustainability. The exact measures and outcomes of this balance is controversial and there are many different ways for environmental concerns to be expressed in practice. Environmentalism and environmental concerns are often represented by the color green,[2] but this association has been appropriated by the marketing industries and is a key tactic of greenwashing. Environmentalism is opposed by anti-environmentalism, which takes a skeptical stance against many environmentalist perspectives.
"Imbecile? Because they'd like to save some land for wildlife?"
Another imbecile.
" That said, the āEco-Fascistsā have managed the sequestration of productive land unmatched since the age of kings. Over 30% of the American land base lies under no-use or limited-use restrictionsā¦.almost 700 million acres. The Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior are targeting the confiscation of another 213 million acres, bringing the count to nearly half of the continent! "
http://r-calfusa.com/Trade/property_rights/100900BLMLeakedMemo.pdf