If they are liars they'll be found out, but not by the likes of the LA Times which has its own agenda.
I have been pretty close to the "environmental movement" and to a great extent it is founded on lies. That's why I can't support it anymore. There was a time when I thought environmentalists were simply lovers of nature like me. I learned through observing their behavior that they are unscrupulous and will do or say anything to advance their agenda.
Or they say one thing and do another when it suits them. My wife had a real estate client one time who declared she was an environmentalist. My wife showed her house after house that met her criteria, which was basically "small, old, and charming." Finally she built a road and made a clearcut on the edge of a major salmon and steelhead stream. In that clearcut she built her brand new house.
There's always the Sierra Club exec who built a house in Northern California with massive old-growth redwood beams. My friend's husband was the contractor. She, being a forester, questioned the Sierra Clubber about his conflict of interest and got no satisfactory answer.
One "environmentalist" do-gooder tried to make an issue out of what he called Native American vision quest sites. He forgot to consult with the tribal elders who said they spoke for the tribe, not him.
Just last year some yahoo camped out on the ledge of a federal building trying to stop a timber sale in "one of our last bastions of old-growth." He was a liar. I personally read the age of those trees over ten years ago. They were not old growth -- not even close. Every last one of them was 115 then, which makes them 125 now.
There are many other examples, but the problem is environmentalists forget about the law of unintended consequences. There is always a consequence. Somebody pays. It won't be the environmentalist, but somebody will pay every time.
Say you and your friends manage to complete the job of shutting down timber harvest on federal lands: You don't stop building houses so somebody has to get the wood someplace else. That someplace else might be Siberia, where they clearcut but don't successfully replant. The boards or logs come over here with all manner of alien insect pests that get a foothold in our forests and devestate them. It's happened before, but we learned from Dutch Elm disease, white pine blister rust, larch case bearer, and others. Siberian gypsy moths, or whatever hitches a ride on those logs, will come. You can count on it.
Who will be there to handle it? You? Not me. I'm out of business. It's the law of unintended consequences. |
