-Caveat Lector-
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 03
1999
Pseudo environmentalists
A war is going on in the environmentalist community that deserves
our
attention. This war is between those who care about clean air, clean
water and safe food and those who lust after raw power. This war
pits
those who appreciate the American dream against those who
despise all
that makes America great. What we are witnessing is an attempted
bloodless political coup. People calling themselves
environmentalists
are taking over organizations that once were concerned about clean
air, clean water and other desirable things. They are replacing real
environmentalists with radical socialists whose sole purpose is to
impose federal control over every aspect of our lives. They are using
the environment as an emotional Trojan Horse to conceal their real
aim, political power. They are desperate, because changes in
technology threaten to solve most of the environmental problems
that
they claim to care about. Wednesday, Henry Lamb, in a column for
WND,
wrote about the plans of some federal government and
environmental
organization officials to declare as much of America as possible "off
limits" to humans. Thursday, Sarah Foster, in a WND exclusive,
wrote
about HR 701, the proposed Conservation and Reinvestment Act of
1999
that would use billions more of our tax dollars to buy up private
land. Their articles are only the tips of a very frightening iceberg.
Americans created the Sierra Club a century ago to preserve and
protect what was to become Yosemite National Park. Over the past
decade, however, radical environmentalists have made significant
inroads into the Sierra Club. Two summers ago, the Sierra Club
membership voted on an amazing offensive proposal. Environmental
radicals wanted the Sierra Club to oppose immigration because
Latino
immigrants were more likely to "damage the environment."
Fortunately,
this racist resolution lost, but not by much. Recently, several
radical environmentalist groups sued the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS). They want to stop the INS from using
search lights and bull dozing dirt roads on the border. The INS uses
these and other tactics to make it harder for illegal immigrants and
drug pushers to enter the U.S. The radical environmentalists want
them
to stop because, they claim, the night lights and dirt roads interfere
with the nocturnal activities of feral cats. These people say that
wild cats are more important than the sanctity of our borders or the
safety of our people. This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
said that it had reached an agreement which gave it jurisdiction over
land development for a 345 square mile area of Central Texas so it
could protect the Barton Springs Salamander. The Fish and Wildlife
Service recently declared this salamander an endangered species.
Fish
and Wildlife says that this salamander is endangered although no
one
knows how many salamanders exist. What we do know is that at
least we
have killed or seriously injured 3,000 per year for the past 70 years
so that Central Texans can swim in Barton Springs without slipping
on
algae. The federal government owns 28 percent of the land in
America,
but radical environmentalists want the feds to own even more. They
are
using tax exempt organizations like the Nature Conservancy to get
around congressional spending limits. One of their tricks is to get
these tax-exempt land banks to buy land from private owners and
then
sell that land to the feds in a year or so. You and I support this
ruse through our tax dollars. We pay the first time by allowing
taxable land to be taken off the tax roles by taxpayer subsided tax
exempt organizations. We pay again when these tax exempt
organizations
flip the land to the federal government in exchange for, that's right,
more of our tax dollars. If all of this is not bad enough, and it is,
the Environmental Protection Agency insists that new air pollution
standards for soot and internal combustion engines be enacted
without
congressional approval. This is in the face of compelling scientific
evidence that these new standards will not help our health and will
waste billions of dollars, disrupt the lives of millions of Americans.
These new standards will, however, create thousands of new jobs
for
the EPA. Al Gore likes to talk about urban sprawl and "smart
growth."
The problem is there is no such thing as urban sprawl. Americans
live
on only 5 percent of the land. Texas, for example, is one and a half
times as large as France, but France has three times as many
people as
Texas. Japan is smaller than California and has half as many
people as
the entire United States. Sure there are cities like Los Angeles and
Houston that seem to run on forever. However, those cities take up
an
infinitesimal percentage of America's land. Run the numbers.
America
is one of the least settled advanced economies in the world. Urban
sprawl is a political issue, not a land-use issue. The EPA says that
we need stringent new air pollution standards to clean up the air.
Everyone knows that motor vehicles are the No. 1 source of air
pollution. The EPA says new fuels and other restrictions are the
only
solution, even though they know that Honda and Toyota will start
selling cars that solve the air pollution problem this fall. That's
right, this fall. These cars have hybrid engines with electric and
gasoline power sources. They average 60 to 70 miles a gallon and
are
twice as clean as the cleanest gasoline cars made. Every major car
manufacturer will have hybrid engine vehicles on the road in the next
three years. In five years, air pollution will be much lower and
overall gas mileage will go up because consumers will buy cleaner,
more efficient cars. If the EPA wanted to help, meanwhile, they
should
encourage cities and states to coordinate their traffic lights and
build more roads and highways. The No. 1 source of vehicle
pollution
is cars stuck in traffic. If you keep traffic moving smoothly, you
substantially reduce air pollution. However, the EPA won't support
road construction because of Al Gore's "smart growth" scheme.
Smart
growth calls for us to return to the past. It calls for us to get out
of our cars and take mass transit. It calls for us to leave our houses
and live in apartment boxes. It calls for us to do what the
government
wants us to do and give up our freedom. It demands thousand of
new
government bureaucrats and billions of dollars of new taxes. The
reality is that the Internet economy is making large cities obsolete.
The Internet is making it possible for millions of Americans to work
for major corporations out of their homes or in small towns. Internet
researchers predict that 30 million Americans will telecommute by
the
end of 2000. So any plan that tries to force people to live in high
rises in urban cities makes no sense ... unless you look at the
politics of the deal. Al Gore realizes that the liberal wing of
American politics is on the verge of losing power. The prolonged
economic boom has lifted many of their traditional supporters into
the
middle class. These people now have homes, or dream of having
homes.
They now have a stake in keeping taxes down and government
small. They
are leaving the rust belt and large cities. As they do this, they are
leaving the liberal wing of the Democrat party. I used to be a
Democrat, and I can tell you this. All liberals care about is staying
in power. They will say whatever they need to say and do whatever
they
need to do to hold onto power. Their dream of greatness is to have a
government job where they can take our money and tell us how to
live
our lives. Technological advances are threatening their use of the
"environmental" movement as a front for their power grab. That is
why
Al Gore and the EPA are desperately trying to create an
environmental
crisis where none exists. That is why so many political radicals are
now resurfacing in "environmental" groups.
John Doggett is a management consultant, lawyer, and business
school professor who lives in Austin, Texas. Talkers Magazine has
selected John as one of the 100 Most Influential Radio Talk Show
Hosts
in America. Headway Magazine has selected John as one of the
20 Most
Influential Black Conservatives in America.
=A9 1999 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
Kathleen
"It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have
enough good men to curse them." - ILN, 3/14/08
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