Green Hell: Heritage Foundation Spews Anti-Environment Nonsense
June 16, 2009 · Print This Article
Quick, Republicans – git yer guns! Environmentalists are infiltrating the government, courtrooms, boardrooms and classrooms. Insidious!
The Heritage Foundation, known to be anti-environment, put on a little presentation about a book called Green Hell, which describes a “brave new world” in which a powerful and secretive group called “Greens” are working to tear the American lifestyle out of conservatives’ greedy little hands. The author of the book, Steve Milloy, reads an excerpt and then rails on about stupid, cowardly, secretive “Greens”.
“Throughout Green Hell, you will encounter, up close and personal, the myriad encroachments and invasive oversight mechanisms of your day-to-day life that are lurking behind a shiny label that reads ‘green’.”
It’s hilarious, really. Milloy even went through the trouble of classifying us ‘Greens’ into distinct groups. I kid you not: there are the “fanatical nature worshippers”, the “do-gooders”, the “profiteers” like Al Gore, then there are the “cowards, particularly scientists and politicians who know or are concerned about what the score is with modern environmentalism but are too timid, too afraid of standing against the tide.”
“Finally,” he continues, “there are the ‘true greens’, the ones that are running the show behind the curtain. The ones that exploit the fanatics, the do-gooders, the profiteers to advance their anti-people, anti-freedom, anti-free enterprise, anti-science agenda.”
Holy crap, did that guy just say WE’RE anti-science? It gets better.
Noting that a book about Ronald Reagan states that what the former president disliked most about Communists was that they were “secretive and deceitful”, Milloy says “Fast forward 60 years, and we see Greens acting the same way. Secretive and deceitful. What’s so secretive about the greens, you ask? They act out in the open, don’t they? Yes and no. Yes, they tell you they want us to be green, but no, they don’t tell you why they want us to be green.”
“So why do they want us to go green? Isn’t it all about the environment and saving the planet? Not at all. The environment is a shield behind which they advance their social and political agenda.”
Anti-science conservatism at its most paranoid.
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No, you have this completely wrong. You cite the National Heritage Foundation when you meant to cite The Heritage Foundation. These are two very different organizations. Please correct this misinformation immediately and remove the name National Heritage Foundation from your story.
Well on that synopsis, I’ll be buying it.
Just how blind and self centered and narrowminded of a view. I am a prime example of why going green is good. Traditional treatments for conditions I have developed lately failed and only by going “green” have I been able to manage them. When you kill the very thing that supports you then you kill yourself and all other people. So incredibly frustrating…
Why take Friedman seriously ?
His education is so limited, his college actually has a graduate program in social/policy public administration. Remember you graduated from the first college in the country that was founded on the concept of research and his the last.
It must be a conspiracy, New York newspapers used to write to the 9th grade level of education. I guess he has lowered the standard successfully.
Don’t give up, even Galileo was taken seriously, eventually.
Regards
Peter Alexander
please forward to Milloy
please forward this to Milloy
Thanks
Thanks again for being on the Town Green Show
When Mr. Milloy says that environmentalists plan to restructure our lifestyles, he obviously thinks that this is an exciting revelation, since he wrote a whole book about it, but it really isn’t that shocking. Of course we need to permanently restructure life as we know it! Our current path of linear consumption and destructive impact leads to a dead end. Turning down a new path is the most logical choice. Why shouldn’t we change our lifestyles when they are destroying our planet and harming humanity?
If you want to read my take on Mr. Milloy, just check my blog (http://throughagreenlens.com/2009/05/21/how-environmentalists-plan-to-restructure-our-lifestyles-and-why-that-restructuring-is-not-a-bad-thing/).
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Green Anti Science Position
1) Against nuclear power.
2) Against industrial agriculture.
3) Against genetically modified crops.
4) Against chemical malaria extermination
There is not one single excuse for these positions. They are all anti science and anti reason.