"If sustainable development is to be achieved, the goals of economic development must be reappraised." - 'People and the Planet'
"If sustainable development is to be achieved, the goals of economic development must be reappraised." - 'People and the Planet'
(Yesterday, documents purporting to be confidential strategy memos from The Heartland Institute, a national think tank and major player in the controversy over claims of an impending anthropogenic global warming (now climate change) crisis, were published by The Huffington Post and throughout much of the progressive-left blogosphere. The following is Heartland's statement about the stolen and fraudulent documents.)Yesterday afternoon, two advocacy groups posted online several documents they claimed were The Heartland Institute’s 2012 budget, fundraising, and strategy plans. Some of these documents were stolen from…
Agenda 21 promotes European socialist goals that will erode our freedoms and liberties. Most of its vague, lofty sounding phrases cause the average person’s eyes to glaze over, making it easier to sneak into our communities. The environmentalist goals include atmospheric protection, combating pollution, protecting fragile environments, and conserving biological diversity. Agenda 21 goes well beyond environmentalism. Other broad goals include combating poverty, changing consumption patterns, promoting health, and reducing private property ownership, single-family homes, private car ownership, and privately owned farms. It seeks to…
By Mike Gray The Christian faith posits that God is the potter and we are the clay. In economic and environmental religion, our moral and intellectual surrogates are the potters and ordinary citizens are the clay. Both economic religion (a secular gospel of virtuous prosperity) and environmental religion (a secular gospel of virtuous poverty) are pretexts for managing the affairs of others and of directing them in how they should employ their capitals. — Art Carden A new book documents just how pervasive “economic and…
By Mike Gray For mystery author Sandra Parshall, it’s already happening: I’m also in favor of saving energy by using more efficient bulbs. In principle. But this is where environmental consciousness collides with personal needs. Fluorescent lighting gives me headaches. It makes my eyes hurt. The longer I’m subjected to it, the worse I feel. I’ve read that this reaction is caused by flickering that’s invisible to the eye but nevertheless has an effect on the body and brain. Whatever the reason, the ill effects…
by Mike Gray Phil Elmore thinks infantile fear motivates the “greenies,” based on his own childhood experiences: . . . . anxiety is the driving force behind today’s environmentalist activists. While I eventually came to my senses [after being exposed in school to attempts to make me worry about an impending ecological doomsday], developing an adult’s sense of realism and the ability to use basic logic, many wide-eyed children never realize this innate capacity for reason. Primed by fear, worry and helplessness at an early…
by Mike Gray In an article on LiveScience, senior writer Jeremy Hsu offers a muted jeremiad against our rapacious species: Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all over the world, according to a comprehensive study of fossil records. The findings suggest humans will live in a very different future if they drive animals to extinction, because the loss of each species can alter entire ecosystems. Some scientists have speculated that effects of humans…
by Mike Gray The National Center for Policy Analysis alerts us to a Washington Times report entitled “Europe’s light-bulb socialism”: Beginning today, it is a crime to manufacture or ship for sale a traditional 75-watt incandescent light bulb in the European Union (EU), says the Washington Times. The United States is scheduled to begin a phaseout schedule mirroring the European plan in 2012 — the same year incandescent lights are to be fully phased out in the EU: Energy-saving bulbs have been clearly labeled since…
In commemoration of Earth Day, here is my analysis of the Academy Award-winning Al Gore movie that galvanized the global warming movement and ultimately led to its demise by exposing the arguments for global warming alarmism to serious public, scientific scrutiny. An Inconvenient Truth is a platform from which Gore assumes the Cassandra role of predicting the demise of the world as we know it. As a work intended to frighten audiences into compelling government to “do something, anything” about global warming, the film fails…
The brilliant documentary filmmaker Ann McElhinney (Mine Your Own Business; Not Evil, Just Wrong) has written a must-read essay exposing the slanted, ignorant, self-contradictory, blatantly Luddite nature of a propagandistic “documentary” already shown to millions of U.S. children by useful idiots spending your taxpayer dollars in order to indoctrinate your children into hatred of the modern world and a desire to return to savagery. This is an outrageous misappropriation of funds indicating the arrogance and lack of accountability among public school teachers and administrators across…
And that’s the point, I guess. Watch this ad for a “clean diesel” car by Audi, and good luck getting this slightly modified version of the Cheap Trick classic “Dream Police” out of your head. I couldn’t get it out with a lobotomy. It’s been playing off and on in my brain since it first aired during the Super Bowl. But beyond the ditty, I also can’t get the vision of a fascist “green” future out of my head — even if it’s portrayed with…
TV writer-producer-actor and filmmaker Mike Judge has a new TV series premiering tonight on ABC. It sounds like another winner for the politically incorrect satirist, writes S. T. Karnick.
The new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is an entertaining and thought-provoking entry in the series. Its use of American action film conventions is both a strength and a weakness, however.
Radical environmentalism and an anti-human perversion of Darwinism spark an attempt at mass murder in the season-ending episode of the acclaimed TNT drama series The Closer.
The one big advantage environmental activists have is the presumed purity of their motives. They claim they only want to protect the earth from a few particularly greedy people, and they say their efforts benefit everybody. That’s their story, anyway, and they’re sticking to it. The reality is a far different matter, as the acclaimed documentary filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Patricia McElhinney make clear in their film Mine Your Own Business, now available on DVD. The film is billed as presenting “The Dark Side of…
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