THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 208, November 4, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ARE NOBODY'S FRIENDS
By Alan Caruba
POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM & GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM VERSUS MEETING OUR ENERGY NEEDS:
DEDICATION OF
THE "FRIENDS OF THE EARTH" & OTHER ENVIRONMENTALIST ORGANIZATIONS TO PREVENTING AMERICA & THE WORLD
FROM HAVING SUFFICIENT ENERGY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE HUMAN FAMILY -- FINDING EVERY WAY POSSIBLE TO
MAKE OUR LIVES MISERABLE, ALL IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT -- THE GREENS' TOTAL DEVOTION TO
PERPETUATING THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX
FULL STORY:
While most of us spend our time working to pay our energy bills and put food on the table, the members of Friends of
the Earth (FOE) spend theirs doing everything in their capacity to insure that the nation and the world will not have
sufficient energy to meet the needs of the human family. They may be friends of the earth, but they are no friends of
those of us who live on it.
This Mother of All Green Groups has devoted itself to finding every way possible to make our lives miserable, all in the
name of protecting the environment. They are, of course, totally devoted to the Big Lie about Global Warming.
In a recent news release (10/3/07) FOE said:
“The science is unequivocal. Global climate change is real,
occurring at an alarming rate, with catastrophic consequences.”
Well, let’s understand something. The climate is always in a state of change.
If, by “climate change,” FOE means “global warming,” a term they’re trying to use less these days because they know
how discredited it has become, then the assertion that “catastrophic consequences” are due any day now demonstrates
how the entire environmentalist movement is based on scare tactics and oblivious to the truth.
The FOE news release told of “a coalition of environmental advocates (who) filed a petition today with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, asking the agency to set pollution rules for large, ocean-going marine vessels" --
"vessels [which} include cargo and cruise ships.” Now, if you want to push up the cost of every single thing that is
transported by cargo ship, this is the way to do it. And, while they’re at it, they want to add more to the cost of that
cruise you may be planning.
FOE and its friends, Oceana and the Center for Biological Diversity, assert:
“Ships are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The
global fleet of marine vessels releases about three percent
of the world’s carbon dioxide, an amount comparable to the
emissions of Canada.”
The fact that 95 percent of greenhouse gases consist of water vapor is conveniently ignored, and the fact that the
oceans of the world trap and release carbon dioxide all the time is also overlooked. Every human on earth exhales about
two pounds of carbon dioxide every day, but FOA does not want to deal with real science.
If you are a member of FOE, the only thing that matters is the lie and using the lie to drive up the cost of moving goods,
raw materials, and people around the world. The FOE's proposal benefits no one.
FOE doesn’t care what kind of energy resource it attacks, since these Green loonies are opposed to all forms of energy,
with the exception of wind and solar power, two of the most inefficient and inadequate ways of providing energy
anywhere other than isolated places like the Poles, deserts, or jungles.
An example of this was another news release (10/4/07) that attacked nuclear power. For three decades, FOE and other
Greens have successfully thwarted efforts to introduce nuclear power more widely throughout the nation, while loudly
decrying the use of coal and other resources used to generate electrical power. The news release stated:
“Many of you know why nuclear power isn’t an answer to
global warming: in stark contrast to solutions like wind
power and increased efficiency, nuclear power involves
too much time, money and risk.”
As our nation’s leaders worry about events in the Middle East, from where easily a third of our oil is imported, Congress
has begun to consider a loan guarantee proposal to encourage new nuclear plant construction. One might think this was
a good thing, insofar as nuclear fission does not produce any of that horrid “air pollution” attributed to other forms of
energy production.
FOE said:
“If we are really talking about meeting the challenge of
global warming, nuclear power is about the slowest way
to go about doing so. It takes at least 10 years for
nuclear power plants to go from conception to operation.
Wind turbines can go up in a year, and efficiency
improvements can be realized almost immediately.”
This is utter nonsense.
Wind power is the least efficient way to provide electrical energy and would involve having to cover an entire state
with windmills to come even close to matching the output of a single nuclear power plant with a footprint of a few
acres. Nor is it even remotely possible to achieve enough energy “efficiency improvements” to reduce or meet the
needs of a nation with three hundred million people and growing.
Lastly, need it be said that “meeting the challenge of global warming” is no challenge at all, given the fact that there is
no catastrophic global warming?
What people have to understand is that “enough” is never enough for the Greens.
Until they have us all growing our own crops and raising chickens, cattle and sheep in the backyard, digging latrines
instead of using flush toilets, using bicycles or horses for transportation, they will never be satisfied.
Welcome to the Bad Old Days.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s new book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press.
© Alan Caruba 2007
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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