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ECOWORLD’S PRINCIPLES OF RATIONAL ENVIRONMENTALISM
(1) We believe in emphasizing limited government, free markets, and individual liberties.
(2) We believe “smart growth” is damaging the economy and the environment.
(3) We believe there is not compelling evidence that human CO2 emissions are causing potentially catastrophic climate change.
(4) We believe there is abundant land, and “urban service boundaries” are meant to inflate the price of homes to increase property tax revenues to the public sector.
(5) We believe California’s “Global Warming Act” is a tactic to reduce public entity budget deficits through fees and hidden taxes (such as CO2 emission auctions).
(6) We believe budget deficits can be eliminated by placing ALL retired workers in America on social security and medicare, including retired public employees - and NOT through global warming taxes & fees.
(7) We believe nuclear power is safe, and Yucca Mountain is a safe repository for nuclear waste.
(8) We believe the “alarm industry” is far better funded, by 100 to 1 or more, than the “denial industry.”
(9) We believe cars, busses and roads are a far, far more efficient solution to mass transit challenges than light rail.
(10) We believe CO2 is the LEAST of our air pollution concerns, and we should focus on reducing genuine air pollution.
(11) We believe if there are regional climate impacts caused by man, they are more the result of deforestation, aquifer depletion, and desertification - than atmospheric concentrations of CO2.
(12) We believe that many green entrepreneurs and green politicians have been corrupted by the fascistic urgency of the global warming message, and are unscrupulously exploiting it.
(13) We believe centralized mandated solutions to alleged global warming will inhibit innovation and undermine our ability to achieve energy independence and genuine pollution reductions.
(14) We believe the excessive focus on CO2 is slowing the trajectory of solutions to genuine environmental challenges, if not reversing them.
(15) We believe we may modify these principles at any time, based on factual evidence.
AND WE ARE ENVIRONMENTALISTS!
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I can't tell you how refreshing your candidness is. You summed up some issues I've been questioning with opposing positions that I find are legitimate but totally overlooked in the wake of "green" popularity. Ugh! It's really frustrating to be marketed "fact" like that! Thanks for the food for thought, I look forward to exploring more of your blog.
I noticed that you addressed deforestation as an issue; this might be something you'd be interested in posting, but we just did some informational videos on re/deforestation for one of our favorite non-prof groups. Let me know if you'd like any more info; otherwise you can get the code and see them at www.edenproject.org/media.
Thanks again for the post.
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