Earth Day is a holiday for liars. I have followed the
apocalyptic claims and the legislated mandates of the environmental movement
since the 1970s and their single unifying factor has been the lies told to achieve
various elements the Green agenda.
Since 1970, April 22 has been celebrated as Earth Day. It is
generally regarded as the date of the birth of the modern environmental
movement.
There are several common attributes of environmentalism.
High on the list is its barely hidden contempt for the human race, the view
that the world’s population has to be drastically reduced and that our
consumption of everything from energy resources to agricultural and livestock
production threatens the planet.
The food riots occurring around the world are the direct
result of environmental mandates for biofuels, based on claims of global
warming, but the Earth is cooling, not warming.
Earth Day had its antecedents in the United Nations that has
long maintained an international environmental program. The UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has generated the current climate
alarmism whose “science”, based on flawed computer models, has been totally
discredited as often as not by the scientists it pretends to represent.
The incessant Green protests of everything and anything that
might advance the welfare of the human race, from nuclear power to the Green
Revolution that has insured sufficient food for the current and future
population of the Earth, is the third element. These protests, too, are based
on deliberate distortions of science and fact.
Fear mongering has always been the movement’s instrument of
choice to influence public opinion and policy. A simple case in point was the
reversal of an extensive campaign in the 1970s warning of a coming Ice Age to
one that began in the 1980s about “global warming.”
Early Greens spread lies across a vast spectrum of issues,
invariably causing incalculable harm. An example was Rachel Carson’s claims
about DDT that resulted in its ban. Millions have since died for lack of the
protection it affords against malaria and other insect-borne diseases. A
full-scale attack on all pesticides and herbicides, critical to disease control
and the world’s food supply, continues.
In 1968 Paul Ehrlich’s book, “The Population Bomb”, included
the claim that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over.” He later claimed
the Green Revolution, based on the modification of crops to resist drought and
predation, would fail. Wrong again. The linking of population and food
consumption is a consistent environmental theme.
The claim that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must be
drastically reduced is an attack on all forms of industrialization, i.e.,
corporations and the globalization that require the use of energy resources
such as coal, natural gas, and oil. Energy is the single reason for America’s
and the world’s economic growth and the enhancement of life through all manner
of technologies involving transportation, communication, and agricultural
advances.
By blocking access to energy such as the ban on oil
extraction in ANWR or off the coasts of the United States, by lobbying against
the building of coal-fired and nuclear electricity generation plants, by
arguing for inefficient, highly subsidized solar and wind alternatives, Greens
are creating a national energy crisis. How insane is it to ban the purchase of
incandescent light bulbs?
There is no scientific justification for reducing greenhouse
gas emissions. Carbon dioxide represents a miniscule 0.038% of the Earth’s
atmosphere and increases in CO2 always follow climate change. It does not
initiate it. The Greens are lying.
The increasing food riots occurring worldwide are a direct
result of the way the price of corn and soy has been artificially driven upward
by environmental demands for “biofuels.” When Congress set in motion the
mandate that countless bushels of corn be diverted as a food source for humans
and livestock to the production of ethanol, it started a cascade of food shortages
worldwide that were further exacerbated by weather related crop failures.
Environmentalists have spread lies about all manner of food
consumption. Eating beef is high on their list of grievances. Not incidentally,
corn is a major feedstock for beef and other animals that are part of our daily
diet. The Associated Press recently reported that “Worldwide demand for corn to
feed livestock and to make biofuel is putting enormous pressure on global
supply.” From prehistoric times to the present, meat has been one of mankind’s
most invaluable sources of our health.
Along with the nation’s politicians, the nation’s print and
broadcast media and our educational system have accepted environmental claims
without skepticism or review. Since its release, children have been required to
watch Al Gore’s duplicitous documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and today’s
textbooks are replete with environmental falsehoods. On Earth Day, the media is
flooded with Green propaganda.
Earth Day would be a good
day to begin to take back the Earth from those who would deceive us and harm
us.
