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You have finally landed on the one page on this entire site (and on the entire internet for that matter) that is purely without bullshit... my soapbox page. There are a lot of times during our show that, whether it's because of time constraints and other obligations, I don't always get to address some issues that I feel don't get the attention they deserve. There are even more times when I just don't feel like waiting until the show the next day to get some things off my chest. Thus, I have started the "Rob's Soapbox" page. If you have clicked on this page looking for someone to coddle your fragile sense of self-esteem, or tell you what you want to hear or to reinforce your outdated world view, then exit this page right now and go somewhere else. If you are in search of the last forum for reason and common sense left in the world, then sit back, relax, and enjoy. I make only one promise with this soapbox page... if you read long enough and often enough, you will eventually be offended. So here's my latest soapbox. Listen up, 'cause you just might learn something... |
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Monday, July 14th, 2008 PROOF THAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS HAVE NO SOULS When it comes to the modern, accepted definition of “environmentalism,” there are essentially three camps of people: --- The truly insane: I would argue this group makes up less than 10% of the country and is comprised solely of criminals and terrorists who literally believe that SUV’s and large homes should be arsoned in some twisted attempted to save the Earth. These scumbags belong to groups like the ELF, America’s largest and most dangerous domestic terrorist group and should be annihilated. --- The Posers: This is, by far, the largest of the three delineations of environmentalists and the overall population. This is the group of people who have been deluged, in some cases beginning in elementary school, with false, misleading propaganda on all topics ranging from endangered species to human importance to ice ages to global warming and have simply believed every word of it without ever researching any of it. Most people who say they are environmentalists are simply regurgitating what they think they are supposed to say, without any real knowledge of what they are talking about. --- The Realists: We are a dying breed, but we aren’t dead yet, and the recent surge in oil prices may prove to be the event that affords us the chance to bring sanity back to the fore. Those of us who are environmental realists recognize that the human race is completely and wholly insignificant in relation to the Earth. This attitude doesn’t mean in any way that we realists endorse gleefully and foolishly souring our planet, rather it places the planet on its rightful pedestal; a place where we humans still can’t explain how or why the globe, the solar system, and the universe, exists yet alone work, and yet some people have the arrogance to regard human behavior as a threat to it. Here in lies the most insulting part of the environmental movement of the past 40 years. With almost no exceptions, there are no people that are not environmentalists in the traditional sense. Who in their right mind would want to harm the Earth? Of course we all want clean water, clear air and pretty places to live. No one is anti-ocean, for God’s sake. Yet the environmental movement has done such a marvelous job in the past 40 years that they have made many people believe that driving anything with more than 4 cylinders is akin to strangling a dolphin. I have long argued that the overwhelming majority of “environmentalists,” were nothing more than people who were expressing their desire for a clean, pretty place to live. No one wants to see oil spilled into the ocean but arguing that such a desire equates to the modern day environmental movement is intellectually insulting and would be akin to claiming that since most of us are anti-cancer that we all believe in socialized medicine. Most people who say out loud that they are “environmentalists,” are simply simultaneously professing their love of the Earth and their ignorance of the actual political movement that is commonly and currently defined as “environmentalism.” That, however, is changing, as it almost always does when the truth is revealed. Throughout the history of the environmental movement, facts have always trumped emotions in America. When people learned that the movement to save spotted owls would put working axmen in unemployment lines, Americans cried foul and put a stop to it. When farmers’ livelihoods are threatened by misguided attempts to save silly species of mutant salmon, Americans insist otherwise. On and on the list of examples goes, and the whack-job environmental movement has adapted along the way. It has become apparent throughout the years that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe simply that the Earth is here for us, not in spite of us. Our job, most of us believe, is to take all of the natural beauty, resources, and wonder given us by the Earth and use it for our own betterment. In so doing, we of course out of self preservation, do more than our share to do what we can to preserve the Earth’s gifts. For example, in America as we chop down one tree, we plant five more. As we consume, we recycle at a rate greater than that of all other nations on Earth combined, and on and on the examples go. These truths, however, are irrelevant to everyone from Al Gore to Susan Sarandon and all other people who have literally invested their very existence into the notion of being right, rather than correct, when it comes to our ability and desire to destroy the Earth. As a result, the environmental movement has resorted to sneaky tactics to find ways to quietly pass outlandish laws which outrage the American public only when it’s too late. Fortunately for all of us, today’s alleged oil crisis is a topic the environmentalist movement can’t sweep under the rug or destroy in a backroom deal. With gasoline near $5 per gallon and an on-going war with people from a variety of nations that possess a great amount of oil, Americans’ true colors are shining through on the issue of the environment versus us. In 1996, when we had a chance to drill for oil in Alaska, the nation said no, citing environmental concerns. Gas was less than $2 per gallon at the time. Today, in survey after survey, with gas near $5 per gallon, the American public says drill yesterday. Even self-described “liberals,” the most staunch of the environmental movement, have moved dramatically into the “drill now,” column. The argument over whether or not drilling in American now will do anything to lower costs of gasoline is for another Soapbox at another time. For today, the overwhelming shift in sentiment by the overwhelming majority of Americans from all walks of life has once again proven me right; Americans are not really committed to the common day cause defined as environmentalism. We all want clean, pretty things to look at, eat and swim in, but not at the cost of our hard earned money. As I predicted when gasoline hit $3 per gallon last year, our true colors have been revealed; Americans define “environmentalism,” as co-existing with the Earth…until the Earth gets in the way. In the end, none of this matters, of course. The Earth doesn’t care about us one bit and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. This is what drives modern day environmental whackos so insane; they simply can’t accept how insignificant they are in the abstract. Those of us with purpose and meaning in our lives don’t need movements to define our existence, for we already embrace our infinitesimal impact upon this world, this universe, this eternity. So grab a derrick, get a bucket and sit back and enjoy the show; drilling off-shore, in Alaska and throughout the nation is coming to shale near you. -----
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