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Here's the basic science about trees. We humans and other animals on earth
breathe out Carbon Dioxide (CO2) which is vital for the growth of trees and
other vegetation. They, in turn, absorb it and emit Oxygen that is vital for
all other life on the planet. This system has been in place since the
earliest eons of Earth's existence, once it cooled off, oceans and landmasses
began to form. The Earth, 5.4 billion years old, has been doing this all by
itself, but now these total lunatics who call themselves environmentalists
feel compelled to tell everyone that, if they plant a tree, it should be one
of their choosing, not yours.
So we have the California Environmental Protection Agency's Air Resources
Board spending taxpayer money to conduct a study and make recommendations to
the utterly deluded citizens of that State as to what to plant. They
literally compiled a list of over 1,400 tree species and rated them for their
"various pollution impacts and pollen production." I submit to you that this
is nuts!
It gets worse. A coalition headed by the American Lung Association put out a
news release on July 23rd stating that "The health threat from tiny soot
particles is so grave that the US Environmental Protection Agency should
adopt a tougher new short-term standard to protect public health while
retaining the longer-term standard adopted in 1997." Soot! Tiny particles!
They are being called a grave threat.
On July 25th, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
announced that grilled steaks are a cancer threat. They offered a list of
sixteen things that included some detergents, shampoos and perfumes, as well
as "radiation from flying in airplanes at high altitudes." The message is the
same one Greens, aided by the mainstream media, have been putting out for
years. Everything will kill you. Everything is carcinogenic. You are not safe
anywhere. The result is the bubble of fear that is fed daily by these people
and the media-driven insanity that afflicts all of us in the form of
"environmental" legislation and regulations.
This nation is facing a grave threat from a lack of sufficient electrical
energy. This is most dramatic in California that added millions to its
population, but did not add a single new power generation plant for a decade
and even managed to shut down a nuclear plant during that time. So who does
the American Lung Association and its Green friends identify as the source of
the problem? They blame "electric power plants" and, of course, the
ever-popular whipping boy of the Green movement, automobiles.
So, naturally, the Greens don't want America to drill for the estimated 16
billion barrels of oil in a tiny, barren area of Alaska. They don't want
America to tap the vast reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. They don't want any
new coal mines even though this nation is home to the greatest reserves of
coal in the world. Coal accounts for the generation of more than half of the
electrical energy this nation requires.
Does anybody see a pattern here? Does anyone see a continued attack on the
most fundamental elements of our nation's economy; it's ability to generate
enough energy for its homes and business enterprises? Without the mobility of
the automobile as well as the trucks that transport all the goods we buy and
sell, this nation's economy grinds to a halt.
Not only do the Greens not care, they have been actively striving to achieve
this for decades!
Environmentalism is not about saving the Earth. It's about destroying this
nation's economy and always has been. It is not about the welfare of people,
but the means to reduce the Earth's human population by any means possible,
including the banning of pesticides that protect us from Nature's most active
vector of disease and resisting the end of famine that will come with
genetically engineered food crops.
Either we all come to our senses and batter down the doors of Asylum America
or we are going to die here together as these insane environmental laws and
regulations continue to attack our economy, our property rights, our freedom
to choose what car to drive, what tree to plant, where we can live, and even
our ability to purchase a toilet with enough water to flush our feces the
first time.
The American media is on a full tear to depict President Bush's refusal to
sign onto the UN Kyoto global warming treaty as a failure to respond to an
immediate threat to the Earth. It is a total bogus hoax! He has said and he
is totally right to say that the treaty is nothing more than a massive attack
on the nation's economy; demanding that the US return to the energy levels of
the 1990s. So is the Endangered Species Act that was used to destroy the
lives of 1,400 farmers the Klamath Falls Valley when water was denied to them
in favor of a suckerfish! This is a federal law that has never saved a single
species to this day.
And who is pushing the Global Warming Treaty? The United Nations and the
European Union, to name just two utterly Socialist enterprises allied against
the United States of America. The Greens continue to seek more power and
influence, using every form of deception, in order to run Asylum America.
Unless their socialist agenda is defeated, they will destroy this nation and
the lives of all who live here.
Alan Caruba is founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for
information about scare campaigns to influence public opinion and policy. The Center maintains an Internet site at www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2001
Published by permission.
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