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2007-04-20 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2007-04-20 06:19|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "They're really concerned less with "saving the planet" than assuaging their guilt about their own relative affluence."

Is this opinion piece over the top? Consider this. The dogma of Environmental fringe groups, represented by the Green political party, is based on Anti-Consumerism. Make no mistake; this is code for Anti-Capitalism. In recent years they have made a concerted effort to interchange the word Conservationist with Environmentalist. It is their attempt to blur the lines of those that believe humans have a responsibility to be stewards of the environment and those that insist that Mother Earth bestows rights to humans, flora, and fauna equally. This Marxist ideology assigns guilt to those that believe in private property ownership and personal responsibility. In their mind, their visions will only come to fruition when traditional values are broken and replaced by a Government run Utopia.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-04-20 09:54|| 2007-04-20 09:54|| Front Page Top

#2 the last linky: http://www.verdant.net/rad.htm

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-04-20 10:00|| 2007-04-20 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 There is no God but Gaia, and Gore is her prophet!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-20 10:55|| 2007-04-20 10:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Earth Day is crap

I like it. Clear, concise, to the point in just four words...

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-20 11:06|| 2007-04-20 11:06|| Front Page Top

#5 The environmental movement is a luxury movement. It is the product of idle minds who can afford to deal in bullshit rather than have to fight on a daily basis for their very existence.

One major war, pandemic or worldwide depression will take this shit off the rails pronto. Until then we are going to be forced to call it the crap it is.

Posted by remoteman 2007-04-20 12:11|| 2007-04-20 12:11|| Front Page Top

#6 bring back Arbor Day - what Earth Day used to be...

but then i guess that was just too stodgy for the Earth Day folks.

(shrug)

Oh well, their steer manure still makes good fertilizer, and the trees i raise on my patio can't tell the difference!

Posted by Querent 2007-04-20 13:10|| 2007-04-20 13:10|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought Arbor Day was the all the ships came sailing into the 'Arbor.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-04-20 19:46|| 2007-04-20 19:46|| Front Page Top

#8 no it's cool. I fertilized three trees with environmentalists....didn't work: looked like a potassium/calcium shortage

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-20 19:59|| 2007-04-20 19:59|| Front Page Top

#9 No backbones, Frank? Or essentially jellyfish?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-20 23:34|| 2007-04-20 23:34|| Front Page Top

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