Comments on: Is the Global Warming Hysteria Killing Environmentalism? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kathy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10401 Kathy Fri, 09 May 2008 12:22:29 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html#comment-10401 <p>Rabid environmentalists have already been the cause of millions of deaths due to the ban on DDT. They simply won't be happy until they get rid of mankind and have a beautiful pristine planet. Course, they won't be around to enjoy it will they?</p> Rabid environmentalists have already been the cause of millions of deaths due to the ban on DDT. They simply won’t be happy until they get rid of mankind and have a beautiful pristine planet. Course, they won’t be around to enjoy it will they?

]]> By: mbabbitt http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10400 mbabbitt Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:27:43 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html#comment-10400 <p>I don't know about you, but I have turned already anti-environmental in attitude. This Green everywhere crap makes me sick. </p> I don’t know about you, but I have turned already anti-environmental in attitude. This Green everywhere crap makes me sick.

]]> By: Bill Brown http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10399 Bill Brown Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:16:06 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html#comment-10399 <p>Anti-man? How so? Untouched land can be a value to individuals and if they want to pay money to preserve that value, it's entirely up to them.</p> <p>I have a backyard that is fairly unproductive in that there is no wheat growing there, no oil rig or other subsurface drilling, and there is no machine shop maximizing profits. Am I being anti-man? Why does it become anti-man if a group of individuals pool their money to pay for what they regard as a more valuable use of a piece of land?</p> Anti-man? How so? Untouched land can be a value to individuals and if they want to pay money to preserve that value, it’s entirely up to them.

I have a backyard that is fairly unproductive in that there is no wheat growing there, no oil rig or other subsurface drilling, and there is no machine shop maximizing profits. Am I being anti-man? Why does it become anti-man if a group of individuals pool their money to pay for what they regard as a more valuable use of a piece of land?

]]> By: ColoComment http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10398 ColoComment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:11:48 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html#comment-10398 <p>I used to contribute to The Nature Conservancy because I appreciated their capitalistic approach to land conservation (plus they issue a great magazine & as a member you get those super notecards-heh). UNTIL, that is, several years ago when The Washington Post caught them with their conservation pants down & highlighted their poor governance policies relating to "friends and family" inside deals. TNC has since changed those policies [they claim], but I hold it against them that they didn't recognize (or did, but ignored) these apparent conflicts of interest until publicly embarrassed.</p> <p>"Your character and your virtue are judged by how you behave when you think no one is looking. Peekaboo." Anon.</p> I used to contribute to The Nature Conservancy because I appreciated their capitalistic approach to land conservation (plus they issue a great magazine & as a member you get those super notecards-heh). UNTIL, that is, several years ago when The Washington Post caught them with their conservation pants down & highlighted their poor governance policies relating to “friends and family” inside deals. TNC has since changed those policies [they claim], but I hold it against them that they didn’t recognize (or did, but ignored) these apparent conflicts of interest until publicly embarrassed.

“Your character and your virtue are judged by how you behave when you think no one is looking. Peekaboo.” Anon.

]]> By: ElamBend http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10397 ElamBend Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:05:59 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html#comment-10397 <p>I have a buddy who worked at an environmental NGO for 4.5 years after law school. He is now almost completely cynical. It happened over time, but the turning point for him, I think was the Bali conference where he saw Europeans hiding their problems by blaming the US, third-world countries baldly using the idea of global warming as a lever to ask for money from richer countries and an infusion of hucksters that didn't understand the science around global warming [FWIW] but saw this as an opportunity. [the last group are clearly the power hunger leftist set]</p> <p>The ignoring of truly workable environmental problems at the alter of global warming, to me, shows that a lot of the hype and support around it has more to do with taking power and controlling things [i.e. telling all us plebes how to live] than with any true concern of the environment. </p> I have a buddy who worked at an environmental NGO for 4.5 years after law school. He is now almost completely cynical. It happened over time, but the turning point for him, I think was the Bali conference where he saw Europeans hiding their problems by blaming the US, third-world countries baldly using the idea of global warming as a lever to ask for money from richer countries and an infusion of hucksters that didn’t understand the science around global warming [FWIW] but saw this as an opportunity. [the last group are clearly the power hunger leftist set]

The ignoring of truly workable environmental problems at the alter of global warming, to me, shows that a lot of the hype and support around it has more to do with taking power and controlling things [i.e. telling all us plebes how to live] than with any true concern of the environment.

]]> By: Bearster http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html/comment-page-1#comment-10396 Bearster Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:00:26 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/03/is-the-global-w.html#comment-10396 <p>The idea of buying a piece of land in order to keep it non-productive is one of the most anti-mankind ideas I can think of.</p> The idea of buying a piece of land in order to keep it non-productive is one of the most anti-mankind ideas I can think of.

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