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Wednesday, April 5. 2023

How Climate Alarmism Killed Real Environmentalism

To my mind, it killed the conservation "movement". Balanced conservation is not really a movement, because it matters to pretty much everybody.


I still do not buy the climate cult, but it makes money. I like all kinds of climates.


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There were many versions of environmentalism. Some versions were anti-progress and even anti-human life. Many "environmentalists" were religious in their zeal and they eagerly joined the religion of global warmists. Today most global warmists are religious zealots and those who aren't are simply grifters.
#1 OneGuy on 2023-04-05 18:13 (Reply)
It also destroyed land conservation. In our state all of the environmental organizations have pivoted to fighting very nebulous climate change...somewhere. Presumably Long Island Sound, but not really based on all the windfarms killing whales there. Also, actually not part of our state. Anyway. There is no money left for land conservation. So that means that just yesterday in our town a massive development got the first stage of approval. 300 houses (not cheap or small ones) plus commercial. It stretches from a nominally Wild and Scenic river all the way up to the top of the ridge line, through never before developed or used for agricultural lands, through areas listed as 'greatest concern', 'core forest', 'threatened species'. But, when we notified the various environmentalists (Nature Conservancy I am talking about You), it didn't tick the 'climate change' box. So we got a big F. U.
Hope you don't fly fish the Farmington River...
#2 Anne C Hall (Link) on 2023-04-05 19:53 (Reply)
>There is no money left for land conservation

That, and the over-the-top doomsday predictions. Why bother with the little stuff (e.g., saving the rainforests and the coral reefs, preventing dead zones, saving the local trout stream, etc.) if we'll all be dead in 10 years?
#2.1 OldCurmudgeon on 2023-04-06 13:53 (Reply)
The quickest way to destroy the public's interest and endorsement of societal problems is to be untruthful and then compound this problem by arrogantly stonewalling calls for transparency. Telling people to 'trust the science' and then engaging in flagrantly unscientific behavior - as was evidenced by the Climategate revelations - create far more damage in the longer term.

I conclude that people naturally want to preserve their environment - but the tone of the conversation has become so high-handed, so authoritative, so condemning, that it is impossible to grant it any kind of moral legitimacy at all. People are avoiding the issue, avoiding even thinking about it now. It has become worse than an industry - it has become a racket.
#3 Aggie on 2023-04-05 20:20 (Reply)
Its a good point. Thinking back on my conservative days (vs Traditionalism) I though environmentalism was bad. I think its becuase of the climate stuff. I remembered acid rain when I was a kid and always though it was silly. But traditionalism does protect environment.
#4 hi ya! (Link) on 2023-04-06 05:58 (Reply)
Climate change is worshipping the creation over the Creator. Idolatry at its finest.
#5 Maniac on 2023-04-06 09:20 (Reply)
I would only note that A LOT of hunting organizations are still very active in conservation.
#6 Mark Matis on 2023-04-07 06:45 (Reply)

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