1. The aim of the environmental movement is to "keep 'em primitive," meaning don't let children lose those childhood fantasies. Encourage them to talk to trees and think of animals as their equals who just never learned to speak human language.
And, as environmentalism is a religion, instill catechisms, such as "two legs bad, four legs good" (Orwell). Just slightly more sophisticated are these versions:
a. Recycling is always good
b. Forests are disappearing due to the greedy developers.
c. Global warming threatens life on earth
d. Greed is the cause of environmental problems
e. Nature is always right
f. Primitive people are smarter managers of nature than we are.
(Kaufman, "No Turning Back," p. 85-86)
2. "...recycling frequently costs more than it saves...the use of reusable cloth diapers may save trees, but it also wastes energy through both production and repeated washings...requiring lots of water and detergents. ...sewage plants [must increase] chemical use. Recycling paper also saves trees, but the chemicals necessary to remove ink and stains create more pollutants than the chemicals used to process new wood."
Kaufman, Op. Cit.
a. How about the threat that we are running out of landfill? "...we are making so much garbage that in many places there is not enough room to bury it all."
"50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth," byEarthWorks Group andSophie Javna" "
b. When will the United States run out of landfill space? Not for centuries. "
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_green_lantern/2011/02/go_west_garbage_can.html
3. How about all those avaricious builders who are destroying all the forest? Kids learn about this in books and films, like "Fern Gully": " The magical inhabitants of a rain-forest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/
These claims vary between exaggerations and lies.
a. For example: "... the ‘Eco-Fascists’ 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 restrictions….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
b. "...we now have more forests than we had fifty years ago, and the tree covering is increasing. A large part of the reason for this increase is ethat we have replaced the horse on farms and roads with tractors, autos, buses, and trucks. Every horse and mule used for power used some two or three acres of cleared pasture land. Even in Europe, wher children are told tehat air pollution has created 'forest death' or waldsterben, scientists have found what journalists and textbook writers do not want to hear- forests are expanding."
Kaufman, Op. Cit., p. 87.
BTW....Professor Wallace Kaufman, quoted extensively above, is a well known environmental activist, and past president of several environmental groups.
He speaks the truth.
And, as environmentalism is a religion, instill catechisms, such as "two legs bad, four legs good" (Orwell). Just slightly more sophisticated are these versions:
a. Recycling is always good
b. Forests are disappearing due to the greedy developers.
c. Global warming threatens life on earth
d. Greed is the cause of environmental problems
e. Nature is always right
f. Primitive people are smarter managers of nature than we are.
(Kaufman, "No Turning Back," p. 85-86)
2. "...recycling frequently costs more than it saves...the use of reusable cloth diapers may save trees, but it also wastes energy through both production and repeated washings...requiring lots of water and detergents. ...sewage plants [must increase] chemical use. Recycling paper also saves trees, but the chemicals necessary to remove ink and stains create more pollutants than the chemicals used to process new wood."
Kaufman, Op. Cit.
a. How about the threat that we are running out of landfill? "...we are making so much garbage that in many places there is not enough room to bury it all."
"50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth," byEarthWorks Group andSophie Javna" "
b. When will the United States run out of landfill space? Not for centuries. "
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_green_lantern/2011/02/go_west_garbage_can.html
3. How about all those avaricious builders who are destroying all the forest? Kids learn about this in books and films, like "Fern Gully": " The magical inhabitants of a rain-forest fight to save their home, which is threatened by logging and a polluting force of destruction called Hexxus." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/
These claims vary between exaggerations and lies.
a. For example: "... the ‘Eco-Fascists’ 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 restrictions….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
b. "...we now have more forests than we had fifty years ago, and the tree covering is increasing. A large part of the reason for this increase is ethat we have replaced the horse on farms and roads with tractors, autos, buses, and trucks. Every horse and mule used for power used some two or three acres of cleared pasture land. Even in Europe, wher children are told tehat air pollution has created 'forest death' or waldsterben, scientists have found what journalists and textbook writers do not want to hear- forests are expanding."
Kaufman, Op. Cit., p. 87.
BTW....Professor Wallace Kaufman, quoted extensively above, is a well known environmental activist, and past president of several environmental groups.
He speaks the truth.
