RE: Enviro-Nazis
Lone Clone pmailed me regarding what he deems to be my altogether too loose usage/association of the word "Nazi" with anything other than mass murders, and in this instance an unwarranted berating of the environmental movement. I have no problem with LC's position regarding my usage. I had contemplated composing a long defense, but I will simply plead that "everybody else is doing it," and cite the Urban Dictionary:
1. enviro-nazi
n. an environmentalist who is so anal over the cause that he or she feels it it entirely ok to trample on the rights of others to enforce his beliefs.
Most of these morons are ultra-left liberal flakes with no career ambitions or direction, but still need to find ways to keep others down in a futile attempt to elevate themselves. Many are also PETA members and all have socialist agendas.
Enviro-nazi examples are everywhere, from the bicyclists who occasionally stage a rally to block major bridges in rush hour in a vain attempt to blackmail normal people into giving up their cars to the protesters who turn up in droves with signs and attitude whenever they get word that somebody somewhere intends to cut down a tree or drill for oil.
I suppose that Nazis in general got their rocks off killing other people - or perhaps just watching other people die en masse. Under the latter interpretation, one might suggest that Jim Jones of Guyana/Jonestown/Kool-Aid fame was a Nazi. He induced mass suicide - albeit at gun point. If Al Gore got his way - and forced the US completely off of coal by 2015 - then I would guess that he would have persuaded some 20 million to commit suicide by living in unheated houses all winter long.
PS: One can even find Enviro-Nazi quotes. A few: (Query for the board: Is rural cleaning like ethnic cleansing?)
Enviro-Nazi Quotes
Rural Cleansing
Posted on Friday, June 14, 2002 2:30:13 PM by Tailgunner Joe
"We have got to share this planet with the other living creatures, and sharing means not merely preserving them in zoos or National Parks, but setting aside huge areas. Whole regions perhaps that will be free of human interference. Ideally, I would like to see certain large areas of the planet set off-limits to human entry of any kind, even aerial over flights."
-Edward Abbey-Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: The Natural Wonder: An Ecocentric World View. New Dimensions Radio, 1998.
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"The only hope of the Earth is to withdraw huge areas as inviolate natural sanctuaries from the depredations of modern industry and technology. Move out the people and cars. Reclaim the roads and the plowed lands."
-Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
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"At first glance, a vision of North America with regained wildness and biodiversity seems unrealistic, even utopian. But when we consider that restoration at this scale is a process requiring decades or even centuries, it begins to make sense."
-Noss and Cooperrider, 1994, "Saving Natures Legacy, Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity." Island Press, Washington, D.C.)
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'This used to be a Pizza Hut, now it's all covered with daises,
I caught a rattlesnake, now I have something for dinner
I miss the honky-tonks, Dairy Queens and 7-Elevens,
and as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention.'
Talking Heads - Nothing but Flowers - circa 1987
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