Environmental propaganda
Oil and the Doomers’ Dire Predictions
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008From the moment oil first made it into the mainstream, peak oil and the imminent depletion of fossil fuels have been vehemently predicted.
A by-no-means exhaustive list of those predictions might run something like this:
“I take this opportunity to express my opinion in the strongest terms, that the amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the [...]
Thanksgiving: the REAL history
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008In May of 1606, the first American settlers arrived in Jamestown.
The Virginia Tidewater Region, where these original 104 set up their colony, was a breathtakingly fertile chunk of land, and so it was that these first American settlers found more resources than they could at first believe: oceans teeming with seafood; the woodlands alive with [...]
Sustainable Development, Unmasked
Monday, November 17th, 2008An angry reader writes:
Dear Sir: I’ve been asked to write this on behalf of a number of people who, for the past two months, have been reading your articles with a kind of horror. We are troubled, not because what you say doesn’t contain truth — it may or may not — but because your [...]
Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop To Drink
Saturday, November 15th, 2008The most obvious place to begin any real discussion of water is in pointing out that right now on planet earth, water in its potable form is about the most abundant resource there is.
No one even passingly acquainted with the subject seriously disputes this.
In the words of water specialist Fredrik Segerfeldt: “Water is a finite [...]
Cognitive Dissonance
Friday, November 14th, 2008In his book True Believer, the brilliant autodidact and intellectual workingman Eric Hoffer wrote the following:
“Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
The term cognitive dissonance, which presupposes faith above reason, was popularized (but not coined) by a social psychologist named Leon Festinger (1919-1989), in his seminal work on the subject A Theory of Cognitive [...]
Drilling For Oil and Building Highways: more energy efficient (by far) than bicycles
Sunday, October 26th, 2008Based upon mountains of faulty data, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and its many off-shoots advocate now as a “solution to the fossil fuel problem” the return to so-called “carbohydrate economies.”
This sort of economy essentially consists of families, communes, or small groups doing their own farming; re-enacting, to some extent, the barter system; high [...]
Organic Food and the Price You Pay
Friday, October 10th, 2008The organic food industry is the biggest scam going, almost. It borders on the criminal, the fraudulent, the insane.
“Since 1989, when organic-food activists raised a [bunked] nationwide scare over the pesticide alar in apples, many scientists have seethed quietly at what they perceive as a campaign of scare tactics, innuendo and shoddy science perpetrated by [...]
The Sickening Truth About Sierra Club
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Sierra Club is the oldest environmental group in the nation. It was founded in 1892 by a Scottish immigrant named John Muir, whose stated goal was “to make the mountains glad.” In many ways, that puerile policy compendiates perfectly the essence of Sierra Club.
Among other things, John Muir was an unapologetic racist, writing in [...]
Are our fish really being poisoned with mercury?
Thursday, September 25th, 2008If you smell something fishy in this latest wave of methyl mercury talk, the reason is that there is something fishy in it — very fishy — and it stinks to high heaven. Please don’t be lured in. The relevant facts are these:
In this country, there hasn’t been a single scientifically documented case of fish-related [...]
Environmentalism: cult of death
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Environmentalism, with its attendant army of politicos all armed to the teeth with environmental laws, is, let us make no mistake, the highroad to hell.
Before going all the way green, I urge you to take a longer look into exactly what horse you’re backing here: it may well turn out to be a horse of [...]