Alan Caruba
April 22, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2728
Of the many things most people do not know about Earth Day is that it is
also the anniversary of the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of
the Soviet Union. Coincidence? I doubt it.
These days most people know little of history. We are witnessing a new
generation who know little or nothing about the Soviet Union and the
Cold War it waged against America and the world for the supremacy of
Communism in the latter half of the last century. These are kids who don't
even known when we fought our Civil War and for whom Korea and Vietnam
are just names of places where there were wars, the latter of which we
lost.
When we finally left Vietnam, we lost something else too. We lost the
willingness to wage war the only way it can be waged, by killing as many
of the enemy as possible to make them lose the will to continue. That
includes destroying as much of the enemy's homeland too. It involves
overwhelming force and that involves a massive military presence. You
can't do that with just volunteers.
The actual financial cost of the war in Iraq has been small compared to
the size of our gross domestic product that is measured in trillions of
dollars. It's small, too, in terms of the casualties of the war. In
World War Two, we lost more than 4,000 men taking a single Pacific
island. Truman dropped two atom bombs on Tokyo because it was estimated
we'd lose a million men to take the main island. He was right to do it.
Americans have grown soft. That's one of the reasons Osama bin Laden
thought he could destroy the Twin Towers, drain a trillion dollars out
of our economy, and disappear into the hills of the border country
between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He expected the U.S. to respond, but
he also knew he had time on his side. We would grow tired of chasing
Taliban around. Our allies would grow tired, too.
So we come to Earth Day 2008 and, despite the many good things to be
said of America, we have let ourselves be trapped by the many lies of
the Greens, incrementally allowing them to decide everything from how
much water we can have in our toilet tanks to whether we can buy an
incandescent light bulb. Like bin Laden, they knew they could wait us
out.
They also know how pliable our politicians are. All three of the
candidates for president believe global warming is happening even though
a kid in Meteorology 101 can cite the data since 1998 that do***ents a
cooling trend. It's going to get a lot colder because we are all on the
forward edge of a new Ice Age. We're due one. Any climatologist will
tell you that.
So Americans will blindly go along, not understanding why the food costs
more and the cost of gasoline and other energy like natural gas keep
climbing even though common sense says that if the government does not
permit access to our own reserves-for all the blather about energy
independence-the price will go up in ways beyond our control.
Americans will blame Big Oil whose combined owner****p of worldwide oil
reserves represents a scant 4% of the world's known reserves. That's
right, ExxonMobil, Shell, Conoco Phillips, BP and the rest own very
little of the world's oil.
One of the many nations who does own oil is Russia, our former adversary
in the Cold War. Now they have so many oil billions they want to buy
American businesses with the surplus. There's something very wrong with
that! Under Putin, they have returned to a dictator****p. The Russians
seem to prefer that.
Americans will blame our farmers-the 2% of the population that feeds the
rest of us and whose ex****ts represent a significant part of economy-but
why blame people who the government literally pays to not plant crops?
Why blame people whose own costs of planting, fertilizing, harvesting,
and trans****ting their crops to the market cost more thanks to a crazed
government mandate to turn 40% to 60% of the corn crop into moon****ne
and then requires oil refineries to add that moon****ne to every gallon
of gasoline you buy? And then taxes us for every gallon of that
inefficient blend!
Earth Day. What an absolutely idiotic notion.
Anyone who has ever traveled around the planet will tell you that it's
filled with forests, jungles, deserts, mountains,and mostly oceans. We
have pretty much used every bit of arable land we can to feed the
population. Only the Green Revolution of genetically modified seeds has
made it possible to get greater yields per acre of farmland. Otherwise
people would have died off in the millions in recent times.
They are likely to do so now if this artificial food shortage created by
an idiotic "biofuels" program isn't junked as fast as possible.
The Greens will just have to be content with killing millions of
Africans by denying them DDT to protect against malaria or millions more
around the world from dengue fever. Add to that the third of the world's
food supplies that are lost every year to insect and rodent predation
because the Greens cannot ban pesticides fast enough.
Then there's that problem of refrigeration to preserve foodstuffs since
the Greens got Freon, the cheapest and best refrigerant every invented,
banned.
Earth Day makes me want to puke.
Everyone who runs around complaining about plastic supermarket bags
makes me want to puke.
Everyone who thinks we should all crowd onto trains and buses and not
drive when we want and where we want makes me want to puke.
Everyone who cries about endangered species when 95% of all the species
that ever existed on Earth are extinct make me want to puke.
People who don't care that a billion people on Earth live on about $1 a
day or that a billion people do not have electricity make me want to
puke.
People that won't let Americans build more coal-fired or nuclear plants
to generate the electricity we need make me want to puke.
A government that throws billions at studies of climate change makes me
want to puke.
The climate is changing. The climate has always changed. The climate
will continue to change. Get over it!
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"Let me say it plainly: The environmental movement has been taken over
by anti-capitalist radicals who are using it to wage war against
capitalism and campaign for liberal Democrats. Protecting the
environment is now number three, or lower, on their list of priorities."
Joe Bast, President, Heartland Institute, One-time Ardent
Environmentalist, Has seen it from both sides.
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