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What is the green movement?
The green movement as we think of it today has evolved considerably since the early days. Since there are some popular assumptions about environmental history that are incorrect, if you have an interest in green issues this article will serve as a helpful guide to the origins and evolution of “green”. To understand the modern green movement, we have to trace its origins back to the beginning.
Let’s get started:
While many people associate the beginning of the green movement with Rachel Carson’s breakthrough book Silent Spring and the legislative fervor of the 1970s, environmentalism is in fact rooted in the intellectual thought of the 1830s and 1840s. In fact, the “environmental movement” is a significant thread in the fabric of American philosophical thought – first developed by the Transcendentalists (most famously Henry David Thoreau) but tangibly expanded upon during the era of American pragmatism in the latter half of the 19th century. Environmentalism isn’t a trend, or a cult, or a form of hysteria. It is rooted in American philosophy and, being at once innovative and practical, idealistic and active, one could easily define modern environmentalism as quintessentially American.
Environmentalism in America today is defined as:
“Environmentalists advocate the sustainable management of resources and stewardship of the environment through changes in public policy and individual behavior. In its recognition of humanity as a participant in (not enemy of) ecosystems, the movement is centered on ecology, health, and human rights.”
But how did we get from Thoreau and Teddy Roosevelt to “treehugging” and finally, the eco-friendly consumer-driven developments of today?
1. Roots of Environmentalism
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) certainly helped foster a reawakening of environmentalism, but it was Henry David Thoreau, in his book Maine Woods, who called for the conservation of and respect for nature and the federal preservation of virgin forests.
George Perkins Marsh was another key figure during the first half of the 19th century who championed preserving the natural environment. Leading intellectuals of the antebellum era called into question the standard Puritan pastoral ethic – the belief that cultivating and using the land was inherently moral and leaving the land alone to be “wild” was wasteful and uncivilized (this belief developed in large part because of the violent cultural clash between early Americans and Native Americans – something we tend to forget about in modern times). To this day there are ingrained negative associations between preserving wild lands and pantheistic or pagan values. This tension flares up in popular discourse from time to time (“environmental wackos”, “treehuggers”, and so forth). The classic American conflict between secular rationalism and Puritan morality is certainly not exclusive to our management of natural resources!
2. The Pragmatist Era
Though Transcendentalism was famously reverent of nature, it was the thrust of can-do American Pragmatism (widely viewed to be America’s original contribution to philosophical thought) that doubtless inspired a series of steps to conserve nature. Beginning in the 1860s, the United States government saw fit to create parks and set aside wild lands for public good. Yosemite was claimed in 1864 (John Muir moved there in 1869). It was made our first national park in 1872. The Audubon Society was founded in 1872 and Sequoia and General Grant parks were established. The only setback during this era was the Mining Act of 1890, which is controversial to this day. The Forest Reserve Act finished the era of pragmatism with federal impetus. John Muir was elected president of the new Sierra Club in 1892.
3. Conservation and Teddy Roosevelt
Though the federal government had begun taking actions to preserve lands, it was Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir – a bit of an unlikely pair – who publicized and popularized conservation. Teddy’s visit to Yosemite in 1903 gained national publicity. By 1916 the National Park Service had been established with leadership by Stephen Mather.
But just as swiftly, the World Wars – sandwiching the traumatic Great Depression – forced environmental concerns to the background of public thought. While the Sierra Club continued to grow rapidly and became instrumental in establishing many parks during these years, environmentalism as we know it today was not a concern for most Americans – or, consequently, the federal government. It would take disasters and threats to bring environmental issues out of the organizations and ivory towers and into the mainstream again. In future posts, you can expect these events to be explored in greater detail. Your questions are welcome.
4. Conservation and Catastrophe
After WWII, environmental efforts continued to be focused on conservation of land rather than more personal issues like food safety or consumer products. That soon changed. The 1948 disaster at Donora (called the “death fog”) prompted national outcry; also during this time David Brower became Executive Director of the Sierra Club (1952).
5. Things Get “Personal”
The technological and industrial developments of the Cold War era and a series of surprising events (most notably Donora) fueled a new environmental concern that went beyond saving forests and establishing parks. Carson’s bestseller set off a furor with its expose of toxins in consumer products and philosophical claim that controlling nature is both arrogant and morally bankrupt. The Sierra Club prevented the damming of the Grand Canyon and an oil spill at Santa Barbara caused public outrage. The Wilderness Act was passed in 1964 to limit the construction of dams and other structures on important lands and landmarks. During these years the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. The late 1960s and 1970s saw the rise, then, of the modern green movement.
6. Activism and Codification
The 1970s saw numerous steps to clean up the environment: the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, the founding of Earth Day, the banning of DDT, the Water Pollution Control Act, and the Endangered Species Act (which the Supreme Court upheld in 1977. Disasters at Love Canal in 1978 and Three Mile Island in 1979 terrified the public with the visible consequences of toxic waste, pollution, and contamination. The 1980s were plagued with oil spills (the Exxon Valdez in 1989, among others), and while there was continued significant backlash from industry against environmental strictures, the various Acts were not overturned.
7. Treehuggers and That Infamous Owl
The 1990s saw the offshoot of radical environmentalism in the face of corporate mistreatment of the land – and groups like PETA, Earth First and ELF got plenty of media attention. As conservative radio hosts went on tirades about minnows and the spotted owl and the merits of clear cutting, passionate young activists famously chained themselves to or took up residence in trees – earning the nickname “treehuggers“. These actions gained notoriety, but unfortunately also had the effect of politicizing and emotionally charging key environmental issues. Environmental protection was alternately depicted as being religious, cult-like, anti-society, anti-property ownership and anti-capitalist. Criminal stunts from fringe environmental groups did nothing to dampen the image of environmentalism as extreme. Vegetarianism experienced a popular resurgence with ground-breaking books like Diet for a New America (Robbins) but it also became the brunt of many a late-night comedian’s routine. The concept of climate change was ridiculed by many as an overreaction from misguided “environmentalist wackos”.
9. The “New” Environmentalism
Sobering international events, catastrophic weather, visible climate change, 9/11 and war, gas shortages and scientific consensus legitimized environmental concerns during the early years of the new century. Al Gore’s blockbuster film An Inconvenient Truth seared the climate crisis into the popular consciousness. Suddenly, the problems were obvious everywhere you looked: our food was chemically treated and genetically modified, our water was contaminated with toxic chemicals, our resources were running out, our wasteful habits were filling landfills, New Orleans was virtually destroyed, and gas prices were soaring – to name but a few key issues that have spurred millions to “go green”.
This post merely reviews the environmental movement as it relates to the United States. Consider: American leaders have yet to sign the Kyoto Protocol or earmark serious funding to green-collar jobs and sustainable technologies and energy. But American citizens have taken it upon themselves join a global movement, to learn more despite the gridlock in Washington; to conserve, to drive the development of eco-friendly consumption, to buy hybrids or use mass transit, even to telecommute. More and more people now recycle, compost, “go organic”, grow gardens and understand the connection between saving money, improving health and helping the environment. More people are interested in technology and efficient living than ever before. And more and more people are becoming curious about the natural world in all its majesty and strangeness.
The great opportunity is that every individual can be a part of the green revolution in some way. Everyone can learn and take a positive step in a greener direction. No one’s perfect, but together we can solve the problems we face. Welcome to the “new” green movement.
Consider this your crash course in environmentalism. In future articles you will learn more about each stage of the green movement, as well as learn about both international and American contributions, challenges and solutions. Our mission is to provide interesting, educational, practical green information and ideas and we welcome everyone.
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49 Comments
October 1st, 2008 at 6:57 pm
very nicely writen sara.
October 18th, 2008 at 6:34 am
And, sadly, the social effects of the Green Movement will be these: Comments from a 29 year old, registered Independent, multilingual, world-traveled white male who is engaged and out of debt.
A deepened sense of self-righteousness in people: I have no problem with recycling, but I don’t need to call myself “Green” to feel good about myself or the planet. The whining is also really obnoxious and encourages me to ignore everything you are saying. You may have been little princes and princesses to your parents, but to me, you are one of 6.8 billion people on this rock. Grow up and find a backbone, quick.
More and more fear propaganda on television: In 2001, it was terrorists. Now, we are killing are planet and it is reacting by killing us. Vis-a-vie: The Happening by M. Night Shamalan. More like “The Crappening”.
A societal consensus to allow ultra-left wingers to pass legislation that a) destroys Democracy. (There is no “we” in Democratic nations – there is only “I”)
b) pass legislation that demands that a hardworking American citizen pay out their hard earned dollars in the form of fines for something like, say, failing to recycle.
c) To be able to continue to point the finger at white men and say that we are the root of all evil in American society. Now that Obama is going to be President, we aren’t a racist nation anymore (I would be hard-pressed to agree with a person of any other ethnic group who called me racist, considering I voted for him, and I speak 4 languages). Anyone who disagrees with Komrade Obama and the Green movement and social welfare systems will be demonized and called “cruel” or “insensitive”.
d) America will slowly become a more and more fascist nation. Wait until the Green movement creates some nonsense correlation between facial expressions they deem “hurtful to children” and medicine. They will have us all forcibly injected with some kind of Prozac because now facial expressions that potentially frighten children are non-Green because anything scary is Green and hurts the children.
The truth is is that these Greenies are the weakest members of American society who have no sense of moral or civic responsibility. They need some cause to rally around to feel like complete human beings. They are poor at conversation. There is no back-and-forth. There is the Green way or NO WAY. They are socially inept people whose whiny, highpitched voices grate my ears. They want to force choice out of my hands. No smoking. No offensive language. Pretty soon, coming to America, no talking, no eating, and no moving!
If these people remain in charge, we will be forced to live in a Politically Correct hell hole for the rest of our natural lives.
They are turning our nation into a nation of easily controlled, child-like automatons.
I have a friend with a ranch in New Mexico.
He has guns.
Do you see where I am going with this Green People?
Pass a few more laws and you won’t have to worry about terrorists from far away.
Pass a few more laws and maybe YOU’LL be declared the terrorists.
You see, Officers in the Military pledge to protect and defend the Constitution from ALL enemies: FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
I guess you were too busy being PC or self-righteous or paranoid for your kid’s health that you failed to read that part.
And let me tell you: I bet you a dollar that me and 15 of my friends could take on 150,000 of you. Why? Because you know it and I know it: Way, way down deep, at places you don’t talk about at corporate cocktail parties: You are afraid of EVERYTHING: of the air, of other people, of food, of not being able to retire, of not having a dog, a car, and 2.2 kids and a house.
Well, ladies and gentlemen of PC America: I don’t have those same problems that you do.
But I do have my fists.
And if you continue to take away my fundamental rights, then maybe, one day, we will meet face-to-face, in a dark alley somewhere.
You will regret that day. I promise you that.
You see, I have nothing to lose.
So, therefore, you cannot beat me.
You have all to lose and I want to take it from you and what I want to take from you is this: the false bubble that you have built up around this nation, the bubble that says that nothing goes wrong; that “Life is Good”; that people actually like and care for one another. and the gross abuse of of the English language has gone on long enough.
You know EXACTLY what I am talking about.
You see, you may have fooled yourselves, but you are not fooling ANYONE I know.
Not anymore.
And everyday, I am out there, in the world, in the Internet, working to make sure that you fail in all aspects of life.
You will never catch me.
I am that much smarter, stronger, and faster than you.
You see, all those awards that you handed out to your kids in school: Jimmy gets an award for having pants on. Suzy gets an award for bringing her backpack. Lisa gets an award for having teeth.
They were bullshit. Not everyone is equal. Some people are faster and stronger and smarter than others. This is simply the law of nature, if you want to get, heh, “Green” for a second.
The weak: weak of mind, of body, and of spirit, have ruled America long enough.
I promise you, Politically Correct America, you will have to put a BULLET in my HEAD to get me to stop.
And I am not afraid of a single one of you.
You can’t take away anything from a man who has nothing.
Did you ever stop and think about that as you formulated the collapse of Western Culture and the destruction of the English language?
No, you did not.
I promise to do everything in my power to make sure that Political Correctness in America is wiped from Universities, from jobs, from the street, from everywhere.
Good, kind, peaceful and non-racist white men are not going to pay for the sins of their great grandfathers forever in America, nor will they be shamed or criticized by feminists. The soldiers will not be ridiculed, like in Vietnam. They fought a war that YOU sent them to. Don’t ever, ever forget that.
And my kids are not going to be treated as second-class citizens and they are NOT going to have their Freedom of Speech tampered with, not by the likes of you, PC America.
This nonsense has gone on far enough.
The battle is on. The lines are drawn in the sand.
Good luck.
You’re going to need it.
October 18th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
You seem like a wack job.
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 am
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November 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Sara: What a well written essay. I was actually giving a speech on the history of environmentalist movements and i actually found this quite helpfull. I thought i would give you a little praise. Kudos! :p
A little note to the “29 year old, registered Independent, multilingual, world-traveled white male who is engaged and out of debt”: You should be happy that you are so lucky and quit bashing the unlucky others who get a little pleasure out of standing up for their planet. Maybe YOU should grow up, get a backbone, get a LIFE. Jerk.
Oh, and you are a wack job.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
asswipe.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
This was really helpful for my English essay. I have always been interested in anything pertaining in saving the environment. Thank you for doing the research.
Oh and Justin, I don’t understand how the Green Movement moved onto taking our freedom away? This is the United States of America and I repect your right to your opinion, but you should respect MY right to MY opinion, as well as the opinons to all the others of the country. I’m not asking you to agree with me but at least don’t be so rude about it. I am not a Left wing or right wing, in fact I’m independent. But I do believe that this Earth must be cared for. I live here and so do you and all the people of the world. If this planet is destroyed, where will we live? Am I a weak person for caring for others? Am I weak for wanting to have a future for the coming generations? Please do not be offended, but I firmly believe that to move forward and continue in the American life, we must preserve our planet. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and beliefs, but could it include an effort to save the environment, together? I don’t see why you got so defensive. To me saving the planet is a good thing to do. I’m not taking away the rights of the people. I’m not even messing with the Constitution. I just want people to find better ways of living on this planet for as long as possible without harming others who have to share it with us. Is that so bad?
November 18th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Justin, thank you for setting the record straight. People seriously need to wake up and smell reality. Environmentalism is great, but terrorism must be given much, MUCH more attention. The problem with PC America, is that they think they know everything, are insecure because deep down they know they don’t know shit, and don’t recognize the struggle everyone else has to go through. Going green costs money! Some people who are financially challenged have little problem with making wealthy, hard working Americans fork over their money to save a tree, while in the meantime, children are being murdered in the womb without choice, white people are being discriminated against, and terrorists are killing innocent people.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Despite the critical need for more effective conservation and sustainable use, the loss of biodiversity continues and in many areas is increasing. Current rates of species extinction are 100 times higher than the baseline rate shown by the fossil records. Losses are due to a range of pressures, including land use change and habitat degradation, over-exploitation of resources, pollution and the spread of invasive alien species. The pressures are created by a range of socio-economic forces, including rapid population growth and increases in global consumption of resources and energy and the inequity due to high levels of per capita consumption in developed countries.
We agree that Obama is the choice of the green movement. You can review these concerns and proposed Obama programs at http://www.onebiosphere.com
Our responses to the continuing loss of biodiversity are varied and include further designation of protected areas and improved management for biodiversity in productive land and water ecosystems. Recently, we have seen evidence of a consensus among various groups and experts that biodiversity conservation and sustainable development are irrevocably linked.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Justin and Holli Renae,
There is an importance to everything that is important to oneself. Neither one of you have been declared a prophet or the new born Christ, so who are you to criticize people who are simply being conscious. You don’t have to be rich to be environmentally sound. People who consciously make an effort in any way to help change our destructive footprints on earth are both wise and loyal.
One more thing Justin, usually someone who declares themselves to be educated would have the knowledge to know that hostility doesn’t get any job or a point across. So good luck to you and your family when you have a heart attack at a young age with all you’re built up hostilities toward mankind.
Sincerely, a Greeny
November 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Hello there.
I chanced upon this website in an effort to get more information about the Green movement. We are expected to organize a Let’s Go Green convention early next year and one of my responsibilities is to call people’s attention to this movement and how we can really become part of the solution.
The article is informative enough and I would like to get more information about this whenever such become available.
And by the way, the “hothead” seems to be talking in his sleep. That’s what one gets when he thinks only of himself and his “rights” – nightmares!
More power to you all.
Gary HC
January 16th, 2009 at 7:53 am
that was a great essay! i found the information useful. i live in kashmir and am worried about the lakes and waterways as well as themountains in my state. i was hoping to find information that could help me understand the environment in my state.
thank you. could tell me something about polythene bags and their effect on the environment. also what are the effects of having open drainage systems like we have in srinagar.
January 18th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Justin,
You apparently have a lot of time and energy to spare. Please put it to good use in a way that betters the life of others or yourself. Possibly take a run and work out your anger, rather than vent your hypocritical views of the self-righteous. Spare us all YOUR whiney drama. Life is too short.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Whoa, Justin that was a full on rant.
Well, I for one think that this article was extremely interesting. I am doing a project on sustainability in my school and I’m going to be using this article and website as one of my resources. Good job writing this!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Holy Toledo Justin, that was a full blown hissy-fit, and if you weren’t aware – you are a wack job..
Sara et al – This essay is food for the soul, and provides good resources to others on their own persoanl green journeys. I too am doing research on the green movement and why it seems to have picked up so much speed over thepast few years.
well wishes to all.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Justin, you are crazy.
Terrorism, yes, is extremely important and should not be underminded or forgotten. But so is our PLANET. The ONLY place we live. I don’t see why you think just because we care about our planet that you think we have no knowledge on anything else, or care about anything else. Because you’re wrong. Get off your high horse.
There are also a shitload of other extremely important issues that were not mentioned in this essay, so get the hell over yourself.
Oh and by the way, I don’t find you confident whatsoever if you are betting a DOLLAR against me. Nice try, but no cigar.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Justin, you are crazy.
Terrorism, yes, is extremely important and should not be underminded or forgotten. But so is our PLANET. The ONLY place we live. I don’t see why you think just because we care about our planet that you think we have no knowledge on anything else, or care about anything else. Because you’re wrong. Get off your high horse.
There are also a shitload of other extremely important issues that were not mentioned in this essay, so get the hell over yourself. Please.
Oh and by the way, I don’t find you confident whatsoever if you are betting a DOLLAR against me. Nice try, but no cigar.
March 12th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Justin who wrote:
October 18th, 2008 at 6:34 am
And, sadly, the social effects of the Green Movement will be these: Comments from a 29 year old, registered Independent, multilingual, world-traveled white male who is engaged and out of debt. ****************************************************************************************
Justin, I hope you are still following this thread, please contact me,
wretha(at)gmail.com
Or better yet, click on my name here and visit my site. what you wrote in response to this article is great.
There needs to be a balance between the green movement and reality, it’s not all of one and it’s not all of the other extreme. there has to be balance. My hubby and I have found our balance, we live 100% off grid, but didn’t do it out of a sense of trying to be green, we did it number one because we wanted to and have the knowledge and will to do it, and secondary we are doing it to get away from mainstream civilization. The fact that we have a tiny carbon footprint is strictly tertiary, almost accidental. We are doing it with hard work and passion for being free. It’s funny, most people would consider us greenies, but in reality we are more conservative, more libertarian, leaning, I say, leave us alone and we will leave you alone.
Don’t tell me I have to be registered, bar-coded and controlled by anyone or anything. I don’t need Obama or any other government entity to “help” me or give me anything, the funny part about that is I am a person who would probably benefit the most from the handouts, we are far from wealthy, our income is practically nil, we would fall squarely in the bottom rungs of the poverty level, no joke! But no thanks, I’d rather be free, handouts come with strings, don’t think for a second that they don’t, and those strings are long and strong.
In my America, all people (legal American citizens, sorry but illegals need to leave, come back when you can do it the LEGAL way, I have nothing against reasonable numbers of legal immigrants coming to the USA) all legal American citizens are guaranteed freedom, freedom to succeed or fail, freedom to live and let live, freedom to worship, or not worship as we wish. Freedom to go to the market place wearing whatever clothing we deem ok, with no fear of someone showing up with a bomb strapped on their body to kill and maim other people who don’t believe like they do… Freedom to grow my own food without fear of Monsanto making it impossible to buy and use heirloom seeds/plants. Freedom to raise my own livestock without NAIS coming after me for not registering and bar coding the animals I keep for my own consumption and survival.
Please people, let’s step back and realize the little tunnel we are working ourselves into, at some point that tunnel will become your jail cell, you will not be allowed to do anything unless it’s sanctioned by nanny government, don’t let being PC blind you so much that it makes criminals out of those of us who just want to live with all the freedoms guaranteed to us by our constitution.
Wretha
March 13th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Thanks Sara! I’m writing a business case journal on being Green and the effects of the current economy strains. I found this very helpful for a little background.
To the hissy fit guy. Wow, lighten up a little. I’m a hard core Republican who voted for McCain, but would never talk like that to anyone. Give people a chance to express themselves and get over it! Some people just want to try to make a difference in this world! Jerk!
March 14th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I thought this page was very helpful.I’m doin a project on the green movement.
It’s funny how one response from one person with negitive energy can cause so many feelings to be stirred up…….
these are the kind of energies we are up agianst…. and they’re all around us.
Don’t let this one guy or that other random person who are only foccussing with negitive disturb anyone….Those are the kind of people who get off on others energy and what better way to steal your energy ,but get you all stirred up….just smile and wave and continue the revolution…..
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:17 am
heyyyyy i like the color green!!!
March 31st, 2009 at 5:46 pm
IT TAKES ALL KINDS TO MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND
Oh, how boring lives we would live without peoples opposing views on EVERYTHING and anything possible
April 11th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Hey Boy,
You are definitely a whack job, and do not deserve the gifts you receive from the Earth.
CC
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:13 am
Sorry Sara, it’s well written, but it is empty of any substance. You mentioning of potential disasters at 3-mile island and the like speak to mismanagement, not environmental irresponsibility. There have been many natural disasters over the course of the history of our planet, but surely no one advocates the condemning of our natural resources as toxins that must be avoided or destroyed in some way. Responsible stewardship of our natural resources is one thing but this idiotic fairytale that we have somehow damaged the earth and have the capability to heal it is ridiculous, and arrogant. Whether you believe in God or not, He does exist and is the ONLY one who will save or destroy this planet. The sin of Adam condemned the earth and everything on it. This is not an infinite orb. It will cease to exist as we know it one day, not because we mistreated it but because of God’s reclaiming it. And there will be a new heaven and a new earth….If you people truly want the rest of us to believe anything you have to say, you should truly research the claims you make. We believe in the facts, not in emotionally motivated outbursts or baseless and invented “science”.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I think you people are being played. Those of you who reacted to “Justin’s” extreme comments are being played.
It is obvious that Justin is a Green movement activist attempting to create a fictional antagonist for those who feel passionately about the Green movement to rally against. Those of us “real” people who respectfully disagree with you are in fact reasonable and fair minded. Unlike the false caricature our friend Justin has painted.
Those of you who bought him and reacted: You have been played. Doesn’t exactly make you appear as very discerning folks who really understand the truth of what’s happening around you, in my mind.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:24 am
hey boy
it is borring
May 9th, 2009 at 11:55 am
the environmental movement is not new.in fact, if those self righteous “greenie’s” (as some of you seem to prefer)ever read the book of Genisis (even actually open a Bible),you would find thatGOD was THE original environmenalist.it state’s clearly that the earth and all in it was provided for our pleasure ( i’ve noticed the environmentalist’s don’t seem to mind taking advantage of our park’s and natural’ resource’s when it’s convenient to them and their desire’s) with the express provision to beRESPONIBLE steward’s of it. then go to Roman’s the second chapter and you find where the problem start’s, man worshipped the creation, RATHER THAN THE CREATOR! and that is exactly what is happening to day. when the green movement refuse’s to aknowledge flaw’s in much of their data,such as al gore’s energy consumption at his own reidence, the current senator of the united state’s ,obama and the fuel used for air force one used for his flight to the earth day meet, etc.,etc.,how can you then expect us to take you seriously? justin may ,or may not be a “plant” and holli be “crazy” (so much for tolerance from the loon’s on the left,just ask miss california !) and kudo’s wreatha, but what they are saying is the absolute truth.responsible care of our planet,based on TRUE SCIENCE, and not “feel good” earth worship is what is needed,because we are fast approaching the end of that tunnel as the one writer so rightfully said.
May 20th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Okay now, we all seem like responsible people are so… being responsible well minded people should NOT bash on each other like all of you are doing, now this Justin has some points that i thought were good, and some were a little… interesting but just because he has a bit of an extremist opinion doesn’t mean that everybody should jump him… People calling him a “Jerk” and calling him “Crazy” or a “Wack Job” is not helping anything. If you can prove what Justin is saying is wrong with logical, not finger pointing name calling ways than that will do something better than everybody acting like your all still in grade school. Though i’m not per say supporting Justin because he’s doing the same thing. Though i do agree that he does have a point. People that proclaim that they are “Green” or that say that we should have to help the planet, should do that instead of writing about going out and trying to fix the planet maybe they should get off there computer chairs and DO IT! “Greenies” as you put them that rant to loud and make bigger protest signs seem like they have something to prove… With Wretha she is cleaning up what she has dome to the planet and not proclaiming that she is doing the right thing… Fix what you do, and actually do something instead of writing about it.
Katlyn
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