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Mining Affairs Forum September 17,
2009
“Green Hell Uncovers the Green’s Covert Agenda”
By Ken Thornberg
Can you imagine what it is like for a fly when he accidentally flies
into a spider’s web? Where do you go to escape? How can you run—one
step in any direction just happens to encounter more of the same sticky
substance which represents your inevitable death. In much the same fashion,
we often feel the same when encountering what appears to be a vast conspiracy
that is chipping away at both our freedoms and our lifestyle. Which enemy
do we aim at first? What direction do we turn to stop the evil that seems
to be making increased headway these days at destroying the moral fabric
of America?
Well, an author by the name of Steve Milloy has written a book called
Green Hell, with a subtitle of How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your
Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them.
Milloy is the found of junkscience.com. As most readers know, the environmental
movement has a vast array of lobbying groups, proposed measures impacting
all business and consumers, and specialized terminology, leaving it difficult
to keep up with every nuance of their barrage against us. Milloy helps
us bring ourselves up-to-date with this one spider web fiber with their
latest methodologies, motives and fallacies of the movement.
Green Guilt
Right now the major environmental danger being debated is global warming.
My column, among others in the Miners News, has helped debunk this theory
over and over again. Over 31,000 scientists have signed a petition denying
those claims (www.petitionproject.org). And now that the hurricane season
has seen none of the activity that doomsday ecologists were yelling about,
that “scientific proof” has suddenly disappeared from the media
stage. Not even Al Gore, the movement’s global warming guru, has
refused public debate on the subject. Hmmmm…
Milloy points to the Institute for Public Policy Research which strategizes:
“The task of climate change agencies is not to persuade by rational
argument…The ‘facts’ need to be treated as being so taken-for-granted
that they need not be spoken…It amounts to treating climate-friendly
activity as a brand that can be sold. This is, we believe, the route to
mass behavior changes.” NASA’s James Hansen said that coal and
oil company executives who cast doubts on global warming “should
be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.” Wow…that’s
pretty serious rhetoric.
Green Governance
Milloy notes that the common denominator in all green demands is increased
government regulation, reduced economic productivity, and a lower standard
of living for all Americans. Some years ago I wrote a column sharing what
I had learned decades ago about where the members of Social Democrats,
U.S.A. went. That organization was the most active socialist organization
in America at the time. When the part disbanded, the agreement among ALL
members was to infiltrate all environmental organizations at the same
time and use the “Green Platform” to accomplish all of their
goals.
Milloy speaks about the “carbon footprint” that Greens speak
of each American having, along with their desire to create energy rationing
as punishment for that footprint. As an example, he tells us of the 2007
California Energy Commisson’s proposal to require homes to have programmable
thermostats which could be controlled by utilities by remote control—regulating
water heaters, home thermostats, refrigerators and lights to make sure
all Californians met the acceptable boundaries which Greens approve of.
That’s what I call Big Brother! Thank God the proposal was rejected.
Pennsylvania’s Governor has approved a law that fines people if they
do not cut their electricity by 1% by May of 2011. San Francisco’s
Mayor has proposed that citizens who mix recyclables with their trash
be fined $1,000. Where will it end?
Milloy asks why greens won’t support nuclear energy which has no
carbon emissions. Their real agenda is to create an artificial energy
shortage, drastically increasing the cost of energy and providing governmental
micro-regulation. Milloy points out that the restricted living standards
greens advocate are not meant for the green elite, but for the rest of
us. He gives the example of Al Gore whose mansion in Nashville consumes
more than 20 times the electricity used by the average American home,
or Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daily jet flight to work.
Green Destruction
Milloy documents other harmful aspects of the green movement also:
• Opposition to DDT has led to millions of malaria deaths in Africa.
• Advocating population reduction due to our “carbon footprint.”
• Their desire to see cars run on alternative energy, driving up
the cost of ownership and reducing safety.
• Opposition to forest cleanups, resulting in costly, deadly forest
fires.
• A toilet tax for flushing toilets (I now what you’re thinking,
but this is no joke!)
• Suing the government for using sonar while conducting exercises
out at sea because it could bother whales. The U.S. Supreme Court sided
with the Navy, but only by a 5-4 vote!
• Working to cause depression among our children about the future
and to accept governmental control as a normal response.
Milloy predicts that under president Obama, things will get much worse
now. No joke!
Answers to It All
Milloy does share answers. He spends time discussing lobbying legislators,
educating the public, shareholder activism, letters to the editor, Internet
activism, and more. His own website is one of the best out there today.
The only area I could question is his support of mandatory vaccinations
and genetically altered foods, topics getting a lot of press lately about
their dangers. Nevertheless, he has written a clear, concise, up-to-date
refutation of the green movement that belongs in your home or business
library.
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