Environmentalists Try to Halt American Progress
So, what are the Environmentalists, Climate Change Alarmists and Liberals really after? Where are they trying to take us? If they had been around a million years ago when our ancestors were learning how to make fire, we’d still be living in caves.
“Hey, don’t fool around with that fire! In the future, our descendants will use it to smoke up the joint.” “Put that dang rock down! You’re disturbing the landscape for future generations.” “Stop messing up the walls with your stick-figure painting. You’re defiling a natural wonder!”
Well, fortunately for us, they weren’t around then, but they certainly are now. It was a long, slow hike for the human race from the savannahs through the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. But what has the environmentalists’ bowels in an uproar now – when we don’t have to worry about being eaten by sabre-tooth tigers, being enslaved by tyrants or dying from one plague or another – is that humanity’s advancement over the past 200-plus years is taking its toll on the landscape.
The environmentalists who helped put Barack Obama in office proposed to ban energy exploration on 12 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Politicians in Alaska were furious about the proposal, calling it “a stunning attack on our sovereignty” and “a war against Alaska families.” The governor said, “You are taking away our ability to earn a living.”
Technological advances that have dramatically improved the quality of our lives are exposing us to risks no one dreamed of even 50 years ago. Well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs. Certainly we have frequently left the kitchen in a mess, burned a few omelets and wasted eggs, but I’m pretty sure the liberals want us to give up cooking altogether.
Yes, we could do a better job cleaning up after ourselves and we could give more thought to the unintended consequences of some of our brightest ideas. It’s a plain and simple fact that humans arrived where we are today because we capitalized on our ability to adapt to our environment and eventually exploit it to our advantage.
But it is also a fact that human history has frequently been a matter of two steps forward and one step back, at least regarding the natural environment. I believe we are closer to getting it right, but these tree-huggers don’t agree. They won’t be satisfied until we – at least we in America – are sitting around in the dark.
Why America? We led and more or less civilized the entire world in two short centuries. The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and assorted Radical Islamists, Vladimir Putin, Chinese Communists and that idiot in North Korea don’t like this and don’t like us. I’m not surprised at that. I am surprised that American Environmentalists, Climate Change Alarmists and American Liberals don’t like it and don’t like us. I mean, they ARE us, aren’t they? Well, maybe not.
The advance of civilization – at least Western Civilization – particularly in the last 100 years, is purely the result of an abundant supply of energy. Energy sources and supplies are not only the foundation of wealth and prosperity; they are the foundation of the global economy and the lynchpin of global politics. All this energy came from fossil fuels. Oil, that is.
Suddenly Americans figured out a new and better way to get more of it and caught the Russians and Arabs with their britches and burnooses down. So, why are all the American “intellectuals” down on American oil? As an accountant in Anchorage, Alaska recently said, “If we have the oil here, why not get what we can?”
Why not, indeed?
I guess Frank’s blogger is at it again, trying to push those hot topic buttons like tree-huggers, Islamic State, environmentalists, and of course my favorite; “you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.”
Well we are not making any omelets here. We are talking about transporting oil hundreds of miles to a refinery to be made into gas and diesel. We are talking about Alaska, a state that is still pure and unspoiled. Yet people like Frank’s blogger wants to take a dump on this beautiful landscape in the name of progress. He failed to mention how many times the Alaskan pipeline, built in the 1970’s has leaked all over the countryside. Or how the oil was sent to Japan and South Korea for refinement then sold back to the USA making gas and diesel even higher in price because it is considered imported oil.
What about the companies involved in creating, building, and maintaining the oil pipe line or the ownership of the land and timber the pipeline covers, billions of dollars were earned by screwing the American tax payer.
That is why I listen to these button pusher bloggers with a grain of salt. I do my own research and seek out the facts before forming an educated opinion. I have learned from past mistakes that the Government has several corporations and companies best interest at heart and not the tax payer. Shoot, the Government can’t even guarantee the profitability of this new pipeline for the American tax payer – they leave it up to their private investors, corporations, and companies to do.
I don’t hear anything from Frank’s blogger saying anything about this. Perhaps he is talking to Trump supporters or perhaps the far left and conservatives out there. He sure as hell not talking to the well informed or educated. Maybe he has stock in the Chinese company that has an interest in finishing this pipeline? All I know is that as a owner of the land next to the pipeline I too would be concern about spillage, repairs and ruin to my property. The wishes of the American Indian needs to be paramount and the EPA study be done before the pipeline is allowed to continue. There is no fast tract to safety. Those building this pipeline failed to cross their T’s and dot their I’s and these spin doctor’s like this blogger only see dollar signs.
Amen. Let’s keep drilling and spilling. It won’t be our problem. Let’s see how our kids like cleaning up after us. Would it kill us to look for alternatives? You preach about pure water but promote pollution.
They can also use the environment to control us. No more fires so that we can cook our own meals. No more wood burning to heat our homes. No more water storage to give us drinking water. All of these must be controlled by the government so that we are controlled by the government.NO self-sufficiency. Dependence upon the government. Control.
I care about the environment very much. Eliminating the use of coal and oil is high on my list of things to change. But, we need jobs for those who are in the industry and take a few generations of technology development first. We need to be using clean energy having it cheaply available to all before stopping the use of coal and oil. I’m angry at politicians for not putting the people and the environment equally first!