We want to make our full contribution to the preservation of our common heritage, the Earth.

Translation: The common, unenlightend, non-progressive masses of humanity are chopping down trees for houses and using water. This must stop. The earth must be reserved for only a select group of humans who are worthy to inhabit it.

But we herewith demand that this stock-taking, monitoring and preservation be founded on scientific criteria and not on irrational preconceptions.

Translation: : All private property is to be confiscated so the official state scientists can better monitor land resources, especially land around Lake Tahoe, Aspen, and Myrtle Beach. Especial loyal party members shall be given personal dachas to live in so as to achieve the best monitoring results.

We do, however, forewarn the authorities in charge of our planet’s destiny against decisions which are supported by pseudoscientific arguments or false and nonrelevant data.

Translation: You have been warned: we are in charge of this planet’s destiny. The gulags are in place and anyone who disagrees with us shall be murdered. Only our scientists and data are relevant. Our experts are the only ones qualified to interpret data. Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin are tater tots compared to what we will do to those who present incorrect arguments against our data!

We draw everybody’s attention to the absolute necessity of helping poor countries attain a level of sustainable development

Translation: We must ensure equal outcomes for everybody. It isn’t fair someone has more than someone else; therefore, everyone will be made poor except us, of course, because we are enlightened and worthy of having more than everyone else.

The greatest evils which stalk our Earth are ignorance and oppression, and not Science, Technology, and Industry, whose instruments, when adequately managed, are indispensable tools of a future shaped by Humanity, by itself and for itself, overcoming major problems like overpopulation, starvation and worldwide diseases.

Translation: The greatest evils are ignorance of our way of thinking, and the oppression of unequal outcomes caused by capitalism. Science, Tech, and Industry, when placed under state control and managed by such enlightened people as ourselves can overcome all problems. Overpopulation? Why, we’ll just kill off the surplus people. Starvation? Ditto. Diseases? By our faith in the Theory of Evolution we will invoke Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest” and cull the diseased, sick, and unhealthy. We shall breed a master race of humans. Sieg HEIL. Sieg HEIL. SIEG HEIL.

“…many presume Bush to be the “real” terrorist and – and by “logical” extension – the bigger threat to world peace.

I thoroughly agree!

Which begs the question, is this whole Earth Day movement just another battlefront in the war between good and evil? Please folks, help me out here. Are others seeing what I clearly see????

Absolutely! But how do we confront it without the left smearing us as anti-environment?

didn’t AlGore triumph China’s environmental policies at the end of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’?

Well that doesn’t count comrade, it’s on Fox! It’s just propaganda from the vast right-wing conspiracy paid by big oil companies.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352241,00.html

I’m not concerned. There isn’t any power, legacy or money in global cooling yet, so we’ll continue with warming for awhile.

And that’s the extent of my Earth Day celebration.In other news, Oprah (who scares me more and more every day) has decided to forget running for president. She’s running for God instead. (HT: Karin…….

Simple inventory helps to clarify why:

Plow 1 acre- fuel cost per acre (diesel);
wear and tear on machinery (tractor and plow)– replacement parts to ready tractor for field ops (cost per acre); lubricants (implements and tractors need to be greased often- cost per acre);

Fertility and Pest cost per acre: petroleum based fertilizers; weed spraying (petrochemical) cost per acre; mechanical weed cultivation (diesel fuel, lubrication); pest control (petrochemical insecticides)

Harvesting: Threshing cost per acre (diesel fuel)– Combines, tractors, trucks; grain handling on farm: mechanical augers run by tractors (diesel fuel); Heaters for drying: Electrical costs.

Transport to Market: trucks- hauling to commercial elevators for sale/storage.

And all of the corn involved in making ethanol is taken off the market for sale as feedstock for animal protein production including pigs, cattle, chickens, turkeys, dairy, etc etc.

Prices go up; supplies go down; creates instability as farmers try to follow price changes for profit guarantees….costs to move in and out of production are charged against future profits…markets change….farmers get whipsawed.

Reactionary trends follow reactionary policies like ethanol fuel production as part of energy policy. It has been a loser for over 35 years since that Dim Bulb President from Georgia decided it was a good deal for the USA.

Nuts.

China has power because it is a dictatorship where the many who have no rights are forced to work for the few who sell the products of slavery to the west for a fraction of the cost of US goods. Unions do not exist in China. They get no “vacation” time or sick leave. No such thing as a 40 hour work week. This doesn’t seem to stop the west from whoring themselves out for cheap products. I wonder if the petroleum based plastics in Al Gore’s plane was molded in China? Bet they were.

Making excuses for Communists, no matter how much they lean toward Capitalism, is support for murderous slavers. Regan was the last US politician to have it right – Apply pressure from every angle until your enemy withers.

While I’m on it, we should ask “Greenies” how much internet time they spend and then ask how they can utilize all that petroleum based plastic in the computers.. tell them to search for an organic alternative and stop being hypocrites.

I think it a load of malarkey that any one single race of people have a magical bond with the environment.

You know so do I. And there are so many people who make the myth what it is. There were “balance” issues before the “settlers” arrived. It wasn’t exactly an environmental holocaust— but there were issues where the people had built “cities”.

I want to clarify that I did not, nor will I ever spout the malarkey that many environmental Moon Loons make about Indigenous utopias before the “settlers” came.

And I certainly did not set that argument in motion in any of my previous comments.

Are we clear?

I discussed Native American history in the context of the environment.

I guess that is what you did. But then you made a leap into “stuck in the past” and remarks about adapting.

That is not about the environment. So I must conclude, with all due respect, that you are switching your argument. That is your impact anyway. There is no use in me trying to second guess your motives.

I made an honest attempt to engage you but it would seem either way that a)we will agree to disagree, b)I’m maligning Native Americans in some way, c)this is an untouchable subject unless I observe your rules of engagement.

a) I laid out to you a rhetorical question replying to your comments about me having a tribe and victimhood etc.

b) Pointed out the use of language to set up a false dichotomy between the “sentiment” of indigenous people and the “thought” of capitalism.

c) Challenged you.

The subject is not untouchable. But you might need to stop personalizing the challenge and try to find out more before you take umbrage.

I think it a load of malarkey that any one single race of people have a magical bond with the environment.

I read or heard somwhere(and I can’t recall where)that bio-fuels were more polluting than present fuels.

I’m not certain of your context for word ‘polluting’ but, for corn, the main US crop for bio-fuel, thanks to liberals and G W Bush, the net energy output is negative. It takes more energy to produce ethanol from corn than what you get back from the ethanol. It is therefore an UN-sustainable fuel source. Put another way, producing a gallon of ethanol from corn requires more energy , than the amount from a gallon of fossil fuel or other equivalent source. In short, we could SAVE energy starting tomorrow just by allowing ethanol corn fields to lay fallow – or, as a novel idea, perhaps use them for growing food again! The amount of corn needed to produce one tank of ethanol could feed a person for a whole year. In 2007, ONE THIRD of the US corn harvest was consumed by internal combustion engines – not people. (Thanks to you, me and every other person who paid taxes to the US government who then used our money to subsidize this lunacy.)

Brazil grows sugar cane for bio-fuel. It is energy positive. However, not only are they experiencing the food price increases that we are by having farmland diverted for growing fuel for cars instead of growing food for humans, they are also cutting down rain forest for more farm land, (shhh, liberals want THAT fact to be kept quiet!)

Yes, the debate is over on ethanol. For an impact of ONLY less than 1% difference, (thus far in the USA and remember I said 1/3 the harvest), on our overall energy consumption, people are already beginning to starve to death in the poorer places of the world. But, no different really than welfare, that is actually what liberal elitists want; to keep the third world poor and dependent on them while decreasing our own living standard at the same time.