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Collapse Of Bee Colonies Is Latest Target For Anti-Pesticide Groups
By Paul Driessen ~ Beekeeping is big business, and everyone loves honey and foods made possible by pollination. But “colony collapse disorder” threatens bees and crop pollination in many areas. CCD and other bee die-offs are nothing new. What we now call colony collapse was first reported in 1869, and many outbreaks since then have […]
Garbage Collecting A Green Job? According To Government, Yes!
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ As we have noted (here, here, here, and here), the BLS definition of green jobs is so bizarre that the total counts are meaningless. For instance, according to the BLS, the septic-tank and portable-toilet servicing industry has nearly three times as many green jobs as are in the solar, wind, […]
What The Sex Lives Of California Mice Can Tell You
By Alan Caruba ~ According to Cheryl Rosenfeld, an associate professor of biomedical sciences in the University of Missouri’s Bond Life Science Center, loading up a bunch of California mice with a mega-dose of bisphenol A (BPA) showed researchers that “What we have observed in those models is that BPA affects male rodents differently from […]
Real Sustainability Versus Activist Sustainability
Activist sustainability concepts don’t meet environmental, humanitarian or sustainability tests. By Paul Driessen ~ Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is – or isn’t – sustainable? […]
Is Every Single Animal and Reptile Endangered?
By Alan Caruba ~ If it sometimes seems to you that every single animal and reptile is endangered, you can thank that element of the environmental and animal rights movements that has spent millions to foster this absurd belief. Animals and reptiles, fish and birds, lizards and turtles, all are born in the wild and […]
Environmentalists Push for Downsizing … to 200-Sq. Ft. Homes
By Liz Thatcher ~ The environmental movement had an idea on how to cut down your carbon footprint – live in a little house. This movement, often called the Tiny House Movement or micro living, is not new but had picked up steam recently, and not without some media support. However, the media have consistently […]
Perverse Environmentalist Oil Sands Ethics
By Paul Driessen ~ The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer-funded government grants, and persuading people to send them money and invest in “ethical” stock funds. In the annals of “green” campaigns, those against biotechnology, DDT […]
AP’s Coverage of California Dairies’ Peril Identifies Price Controls as Culprit, But Not Corn Crop Diversion to Ethanol
By Tom Blumer ~ At the Associated Press on Saturday, Gosia Wosniacka did something one rarely sees any more in wire service coverage, actually blaming a government policy for an industry’s financial problems — in this case, state-imposed price controls on the California dairy industry. But price controls in the highly tarnished Golden State, while […]
Water Security Australia – About That Rain That Wouldn’t Fill A Dam
By Andrew Bolt ~ Among the excuses Melbourne Water offered for not building a dam but a hugely expensive desalination plant that’s not now needed: New dams do not create any new water. They simply take it from somewhere else—either from farmers who currently rely on it or from the environment… Unfortunately, we cannot rely […]
Why Is Every Green Preacher A Hypocrite?
By Andrew Bolt ~ What he says: Governments, carmakers and drivers must push for progress in green vehicle technology to help the environment, and global economic woes make it even more important to up the pressure, politician, actor and green car advocate Arnold Schwarzenegger said. What he drives: The former California governor is celebrating his […]
Hating Fracking
By Alan Caruba ~ Among the many things that people who identify themselves as environmentalists have in common is a fear of anything that can provide the energy to drive your car, heat or cool your home or apartment, power communications technologies, and the endless other uses that we all take for granted. Say oil, […]
“Sustainable Justice” = Redistribution of Scarcity
By Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin ~ Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” He gave a clue to exactly what he had in mind when he told now-congressional candidate Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher: “When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Not necessarily […]
Earth Summit Babble
By Alan Caruba ~ Why anyone still believes anything the UN Environmental Program and its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has to say is one of those great imponderable questions. To prepare you for the flood of totally idiotic predictions to which you will be treated during the June 20-21 Earth Summit, here are just a […]
The 50th Anniversary of “Silent Spring”: A Lethal Legacy
By Alan Caruba ~ There are books that have doomed millions to death. “Das Capital” by Karl Marx kicked off the worst economic system of the modern era, claiming the lives of millions of Russians and Chinese, along with others in the process. Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” mobilized Nazi Germany, led to World War Two in […]
Genocidal Green Quotes
By Alan Caruba ~ As Earth Day 2012 occurs on Sunday, April 22, I offer a selection of quotes from leading figures in the environmental movement that are worth reading so that you can draw your own conclusions. In 1970, the first Earth Day generated the following quotes: “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 […]
Greens Bagged
By Andrew Bolt ~ Green bullying really, really doesn’t work, you know: The ACT government banned lightweight plastic shopping bags late last year but green bureaucrats in the territory’s Labor government should put celebrations on hold. Their citizens are heading 10-15 minutes down the road and over the state line to continue to pack an […]
Obama’s Algae Racket
By Michelle Malkin ~ Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration’s enormous, taxpayer-funded “investments” in politically connected biofuel companies. While the president embarks on a green rehabilitation tour this week to quell growing public outrage about big green boondoggles, the White House continues to cultivate a cozy algae racket. Obama’s promotion of algae […]
Back To Eugenics With The Greens
By Andrew Bolt ~ I remember being attacked when I warned of the strong links between Nazism and Germany’s green groups in the 1930s. The totalitarian instinct, and the disregard for the individual, seemed only too common to both ideologies. Now, as the global warming faith develops, the links I warned off grow far less […]
The Greens Think You’re Stupid
By Alan Caruba ~ Every day EcoWatch.org sends me an email that features links to several articles on issues they regard as urgent and important. If I had no knowledge of science or much else, I would be spending my days in a state of panic and that would be just fine with the EcoWatch […]
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- American Minute for May 24thWilliam Lloyd Garrison published the Boston anti-slavery paper "Liberator" and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. Suffering hundreds of death threats for his politically incorrect stand on the value of human life, William Lloyd Garrison died MAY 24, 1879. He wrote: "I desire to thank God, that he enables me to disregard 't […]
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