[Ron]
... environmentalism goes against the grain of SOM since it asserts
humans are indeed part of the environment and we better manage our
practices better ...
[Arlo]
Hush! If you aren't fear-mongering, I can't hear you...
lalalalalala.... Environmentalists hate freedom.... lalalalala...
Environmentalists want to enslave mankind... lalalalala...
Environmentalists want death camps... lalalalala...
A while back, I stumbled on the word "conservationalist" (a la Walden
and Thoreau), and I thought "why did we stop using this word?"
Somewhere along the lines the entirety of the "national dialogue"
became warped into a ridiculous ping-pong game of fear and loathing
(sorry, Horse's tag line has me thinking about this great man again).
It was suggested to me once that the bedding of the capitalists and
the fundamentalists has produced a worldview where not only is
"nature" nothing more than a resource to exploit in the name of
profit, but as a meaningless realm of existence before "Heaven" it is
something we should pay no concern to. With our eyes gazed on the
Great Afterlife that awaits, we can use the world with abandon as we
seek only the comfort of money to tide us over til Our Heavenly
Father takes us in (and damns all not like us). On the other extreme
are those who view humans as a parasitic virus, infecting and
infesting an otherwise flawless and unspoiled landscape.
And those of us who want clean land to hunt and hike, clean oceans to
ensure bountiful fishing alongside the beauty of the myriad species
inhabiting the earth, well, we get left behind. Unless we choose to
nail ourselves to a tree, or unflinchingly chop down entire forests,
there is no space us in this "war".
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