The Logical Fallacy of Being an "Eco-Freak"

How many of you out there are celebrating "Earth Day" today? Me?? No way. I don't buy into all the environmentalism or really any other "ism", except Capitalism...

Earth Day is a sham. If you truly care about your environment, (and by environment, I mean the area that surrounds you) you should do things on a daily basis to take care of it. It's not something that a normal person need to have their awareness raised about. It's simple: You see trash, you pick it up. You see a flower or a tree in need of watering, you take care of it.

Never mind the fact that man is a part of nature. We are inextricably woven into life. But... listen to the ecological movement and the devout, religious environmentalists and you would think that all we seek to do is destroy. Never mind their philosophy of evolution and big bang and all that nonsense that flies in the face of their philosophy. There was plenty of destruction on the earth (according to their version of history) while man was still in monkey form. The earth went through major changes... age after age... Ice came, heat came... species died out... life went on. What don't they get about this? I can tell you: They are secular humanists. They believe in their own self importance to the point that man is evil. and they have vilified industry and technology as being evil polluters. They condemn business and hard workers as careless with Mother Earth. They hate things that are prevalent in nature, like carbon, without thinking.

I was inspired this morning by a quote from Adam Baldwin. He said "Earth Day" Syllogism/Irony: Trees breath carbon. Tree-huggers hate carbon. Therefore, tree-huggers hate trees. " Trees breath carbon. Did these people ever stop to think about that before trying to outlaw it as a greenhouse gas? (whatever that means) to take that out even further though... the fluffy bunnies and all other creatures of the fields that they seek to protect from their perception of Man's cruelty exhale carbon. So... they must hate all the animals too. But to go even further... They, themselves, exhale carbon. They must be self loathers! (I ran this past my husband, to which he said "well, DUH!!")

I don't understand how they can think this way. It's a philosophy that is completely untenable. I'm not knocking being responsible for your surroundings... you can ask my kids! I PREACH personal responsibility! I just don't go out of my way to flaunt it or to buy and support every green (which is now a color I HATE, thanks so much to the green movement) product or thing that comes along. It's nonsense, and most of the proceeds from those products put money in the pockets of people who celebrate the reason April 22 was the chosen date for Earth day. Vladimir Lenin's birthday is April 22. He was a devout follower of the Father of Communism, Karl Marx and his partner Friedrich Engels. It's also a fact that the environmental movement is the home of displaced communists and socialists when the soviet union collapsed.

I was also inspired last night at our Wednesday night Bible study, by a passage in Isaiah... Isaiah 29:16 to be exact (and I'm not a Bible thumper... in fact, pointing to scripture is something very odd for me to do... but just watch...) it states :"You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to that which formed it, 'He did not make me!'? Can the pot say of the potter, 'He knows nothing!'?"

It points out a logical fallacy that the tree huggers don't take into account. If we are of the earth, by the earth, then who are we to tell the earth what it needs or what it knows? They presume to be so knowledgeable? That's the ultimate in ego! This theory comes from the bible, but it is sound in it's logic.

my last thoughts on this day come from Ayn Rand, who, I believe, if she were still alive to remark on such things, would have a huge problem with earth day on so many levels... but I'll close with a few quotes: "Ecology as a social principle . . . condemns cities, culture, industry, technology, the intellect, and advocates men’s return to 'nature,' to the state of grunting subanimals digging the soil with their bare hands." "City smog and filthy rivers are not good for men (though they are not the kind of danger that the ecological panic-mongers proclaim them to be). This is a scientific, technological problem--not a political one--and it can be solved only by technology. Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death." "Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists--amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for 'harmony with nature'--there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision--i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears..." "The dinosaur and its fellow-creatures vanished from this earth long before there were any industrialists or any men . . . . But this did not end life on earth. Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of 'equilibrium' that guarantees the survival of any particular species--least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man."

The earth will be here probably longer than any of the species that inhabit her. We should make our own personal environments habitable and strive to not mess up our neighbors. But don't do it because some government agency tells you to do so... do it because it's your world too. It was a gift, and should be treated with respect. And that's respect for ALL living things, Man included. And before you greenies set out to protect another "endangered species" (so you can get the federal government to make another land grab and rob us of more freedom...) why don't you talk to the pregnant girl down the street who is thinking about having an abortion... save the baby instead... they're part of nature too...