-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Dems don't debate, they demonize ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Democrats have zeroed in on what they hope will become George Bush's Achilles heel -- the environment. As if orchestrated, Democratic leaders, environmental organizations, and the usual TV-talking heads have launched a PR blitz to characterize the president as the most anti-environmental president in decades. For eight years, these same people have run roughshod over common sense, and all the objections raised by those who disagree with their extremist vision of environmental reverence. In truth, anyone who disagrees with their vision is labeled "anti-environmental" as a matter of course. Civil debate of genuine disagreement is not in their arsenal. To prevail is the only acceptable outcome, and whatever it takes to prevail is perfectly acceptable. Take, for example, the television advertising campaign waged by the Natural Resources Defense Council, which claims that this administration wants to "destroy" the Arctic Natural Wildlife Reserve, and invites listeners to visit its website where they will learn that drilling in ANWR is a "distraction," not a solution. People who recall that it is this same NRDC that staged the CBS, 60 Minutes Alar scare a few years ago, would not expect the NRDC site to contain information any more accurate than their grossly exaggerated Alar report. The NRDC report claimed that Alar caused cancer in rats -- based on its interpretation of a 1977 study by Bela Toth. What the report did not say was that the rats were fed massive doses, which, according to Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, zoologist at the University of Washington, were equivalent to an adult human eating 14,000 pounds of Alar-treated apples, every day for 70 years. Whatever it takes to prevail. Apple growers were devastated. The NRDC prevailed. The NRDC website continues its tradition of misinformation about ANWR. The site reports that only 3.2 billion barrels of oil will be available from ANWR over the next 50-year period. Hogwash! A 1998 U.S. Geological Survey study puts the estimated reserve between 5.7 billion barrels (95 percent certainty) and 16 billion barrels (5 percent certainty), with an estimated mean reserve of 10.4 billion barrels. The 3.2-billion figure is widely known to be a misrepresentation of data which probably originated from a 1987 environmental impact study by the Bureau of Land Management. The point is, that rather than recognize that the nation is, in fact, in an energy supply crisis, and work together to find the best possible solutions, the environmental extremists prefer to avoid factual debate, and instead, deny reality, misdirect the inquiry and demean those who disagree with their vision of what public policy should be. It is not just the NRDC. Both politicians and pundits of green persuasion are quick to denounce ANWR exploration with sweeping generalities such as: "There's only about six months of oil there; we can't ruin our last pristine wilderness for a few days of oil." Hogwash, again! In the first instance, oil exploration and production in ANWR will not "ruin" the wilderness. ANWR is 19 million acres -- about the size of South Carolina -- of which 17.5 million acres is permanently closed to exploration. Only 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain area is available for exploration, and the footprint of the production site would be about the size of Dulles Airport. ANWR oil could replace the million barrels per day that we are currently importing from Iraq -- for many, many years to come. Furthermore, both caribou and bears thrive in the Prudhoe oil field. The idea that human presence in ANWR will somehow "ruin" anything is just another gross exaggeration. The Sierra Club has been on television trying to convince people that there is no energy crisis in California. The blackouts are attributed to greedy energy producers who are manipulating the supply in order to rip-off the consumers. Their arguments contain the same phrases as those found in NRDC propaganda. Suppose they use the same ad agency? Such deliberate misinformation could give the First Amendment a bad name. Then comes the criticism for blocking the last-minute Clinton clean-water regulations that would reduce standards for arsenic in drinking water to 10 parts per billion. Obviously, Mr. Bush cares more about his greedy corporate buddies than he does about the poor people who must drink the water -- so the environmental extremists would have you believe. The Sierra Club immediately issued press releases -- eagerly carried by major media -- that referred to "cancer-causing" arsenic in drinking water. See any similarity to NRDC's "cancer-causing" Alar scare? Use of half-truths, emotionally-charged words and a cooperative media are all acceptable tactics to a crowd that willingly discards principle in order to prevail. Somehow, the American people have survived the current standards for the last half-century -- and no standards at all before that -- and, during that time, somehow managed to increase life expectancy for the average American by more than a decade. Surely, we can survive for another year or two while scientists try to figure out what a more reasonable standard might be. One of the major reasons for blocking the standard was that no one in the EPA could offer any scientific evidence that the 10-ppb standard would make any difference at all to public health and safety. Listen to the screams and howls about the Bush administration taking another look at the last-minute Clinton regulations that have the effect of locking up nearly 60-million acres -- off-limits for human use. Clinton expected his land lock-up to be his legacy among the extreme green promoters of the Wildlands Project and the unratified U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity. Clinton didn't ask Congress, state legislatures, local officials or the people who live in the affected areas before he dictatorially issued his decrees. The Clinton administration, the Democrats in Congress, the environmental organizations and most of the media seemed to approve of Mr. Clinton's dictatorial actions, lauding him as the most environmental President since Teddy Roosevelt. Now that Mr. Clinton's actions are being questioned, it seems consistent for his defenders to once again defend Clinton's actions by attacking anyone -- including President Bush -- who dares to disagree. Thank God for common sense and a system of government that still allows the people to throw out politicians who get carried away with their own vision of personal majesty. When any politician, even one who graduates from environmental extremist organizations, is more interested in seeing that his vision of public policy prevails than in doing what the people want, that politician must go. Whenever an environmental organization is more interested in imposing its policy than in providing factual information so the people can decide what the policy should be -- that organization no longer deserves respect or public support. When the TV-talking heads and major media become more interested in advancing their own extremist agenda than in reporting the news and presenting all sides of a debate, then it's time to stop listening to the TV-talking heads and look elsewhere for news. Time magazine, CNN, and PBS's shameless support of the U.N.'s global warming agenda -- while refusing to even acknowledge the substantial and growing counter evidence -- abandons any semblance of objective news reporting. Changes in the ratings over the last few months suggest that people are changing channels -- or tuning out. The environment is not George Bush's Achilles heel; Democrats, environmental extremists, and certain TV-talking heads and media types, will misstate positions and misrepresent information -- whatever it takes to prevail -- as long as it bears fruit. We encourage the Sierra Club to keep on claiming that there is no energy crisis in California. Of course, they may have to get a gasoline-powered generator to produce the electricity to power their bullhorn. We encourage the NRDC to keep on misrepresenting factual information that is easily verified. This does wonders for their credibility. We encourage the environmental extremists to continue to claim that we don't need the oil and natural gas in ANWR, or the coal and oil under the lands locked up in the Clinton fiasco. This will be a winning message during the blackouts this summer, and while people fume about exorbitant prices for gasoline and diesel fuel and rising prices for all the goods delivered by truck. The louder these extremists sing their orchestrated poppycock, the sooner they will become irrelevant in the search for commonsense solutions to energy and environmental problems. Neither George Bush nor his administration are "anti" anything. All of us need to realize that honest debate among sincere people who disagree is the best possible way to devise public policy that will win the consent of the governed. Policy imposed by any other authority is nothing short of tyranny. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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