The primary reason environmentalism has caught on and is burning through society as a wildfire can be traced back to political ideology. Certainly, it is easy enough to see the anti-freedom legislation, corrupting societies across the world and understand the truth of what is going on.
The rampant taxation on a “pollutant production” basis being urged the world over is evidence enough that this race toward madness is no more than a political game being played by the usual suspects, wielding the same usual fools for support.
After the fall of socialism in the eastern block those who still believed in the ideologies of totalitarian governmental control did not fall as did the government they touted as perfect. Much of the world these days is still made up of societies that are lukewarm to freedom and in some cases icy cold to the fires of American style capitalist progress. Despite all the evidence of the benefits of freedom, many, even in America, choose to believe that free choice is a travesty since some can choose not to be successful (more often they state people couldn’t even try or that if they did it would not matter). They demand that the government should make everyone successful by plundering the wealth of those who work hard for what they get.
Using the growing anti-capitalist sentiment, these political extremists, such as Greenpeace and members of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC), have sought a worldwide campaign through the UN and Kyoto and still seek global domination of governments through what is being trumped up as the worst possible impending doom known to man.
This effort is pushed through by taking the choices out of the market on how to handle perceived problems. Certainly, our ecology is nowhere near as bad off as is being claimed but the media campaign is almost universal in condemning capitalism as the murderer of “Mother Earth.”
But when you have a government subsidy of $170 million per year creep up to $5 billion per year (an increase of nearly 30 times the original amount in only a handful of years), suddenly there is money behind jobs to keep the socialist agenda rolling. Who of us wishes our tax dollars to go toward research intent on making sure a problem still exists to keep procuring government subsidy? Such domestic numbers also ignore the private markets of carbon offsets and private organizations seeking environmental change to say nothing of the amount being spent by governments the world over.
The select few in politicians and scientists who dare to stand up against this insanity are immediately denied access to major publication and risk being thrown out of office or lose funding for such ‘Holocaust-denier-like’ views. Honest, scientific evidence that challenges the environmental socialists are immediately declared as trumped up by oil companies even if it can be proven without a doubt that the evidence is authentic and independent of bias. This religious zeal against technology, advancement and freedom is becoming frantic in its claims, both in impending disaster as well as the ludicrous suggestions of how to prevent such disaster.
Assuage disaster by no one ever driving a car again? Prevent disaster by shutting down the production of goods? Prevent disaster by relenting all freedom to the governments and relenting control of those governments to international contracts? Prevent disaster by shutting off street lights? By breathing less? By eating less? By reproducing less? By changing our very existence? Don’t such solutions threaten our very existence as it is?
The frightening truth is that our freedom is at risk far more than our ecology and conversely, everything Americans throughout history have fought for will become null and void if such insanity continues unchallenged.
