Canadian Bakin'
Angus Daily is the Scrappleface of the SCCB with posts like this one. Excerpt:
"The environment is something that is going to affect all of us," said Rev. Richard Matthews, "it's something that will affect our children, and our children's children. If they make it to full-term of course, but abortion's a separate issue. The real issue is if we don't do anything about the environment now, our descendants (if they make it out of the womb) tens of thousands of years from now will have a temperature increase of .000372 degrees Fahrenheit. Can you even fathom that consequence?"
The Canadian Catholic Church is the world's most eco-friendly Church body. Many of it's members are encouraged to recycle twice as much as normal during Lent.
Why are environmental issues trivial?
ReplyDeleteThey are equally important with other issues.
This issue straddles the food/crunchy discussion too. I think it should become a major conservative issue. Pro-life Pro-environment.
Seems to me there's a significant difference between trivial and equivalence.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental issues are not per se trivial, but addressing dubious assertions of global warming isn't exactly on the same moral plane as the wanton daily aborting of human beings. Indeed, the former isn't even a moral issue.
I'm very much pro-environment. Most conservatives who I know are. I would never vote for a candidate who was for dirty air and dirty water. Even if he or she claimed to be personally opposed.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, I'm totally against the promotion of the natural disaster apocalypse hysteria. It's the "Left Behind" of the secular left. Whether the actually believe it as a religion or whether it's just an effort to grab federal funding, it has nothing to do with taking care of the environment.
Case in point: Al Gore's energy bills last year totaled $30,000.00. He consumes 20 times the national average of kWh. Inconvenient, but true.
environmental issues as characterized by self-proclaimed "environmentalists" are usually trivial, because they born of hysteria and political maneuvering rather than disinterested science.
ReplyDeletepersonally, i have never met anyone, left or right, who is for dirty water and dirty air. i don't believe any conservative believes (real) environmental issues are trivial. anyway, there are already conservatives who champion (true) environmental causes,like those in the Nature Conservancy, which actually *buys* the land it wishes to protect instead of urging the government to take it.
I take my kids for a walk down the street and we pick up garbage as we go, mostly urban tumbleweeds (plastic grocery bags) some litter. My 4-year-old always says "we're road garbagers!"
ReplyDeleteI agree they are not morally equivalent unless pollution starts killing people. I did not say it well. They should be forefront issues. I did not mean to imply morally equivalent.
ReplyDeleteIt's more than trash and dirty air. And simple claims of not voting for dirty air and water. Like you I mistrust leftist environmentalists. I think a lot of them are "great leap forward" types.
However, the same "conservatives" that would not vote for dirty air, would use their power to not allow alternative building methods in local building codes. They are against dirty air, dirty water, and competition from alternative building techniques.
Guys like Gore should live in straw bale homes or some other alternative material. Also all those celebs who think Gore is a great man should do likewise. This way they can promote energy self-efficiency. That little guy, leo decaprio should be off the grid and actually selling energy back to the electric company. Same with Gore, he has the time and money to convert his home(s).
If I had the money, I would build an eco friendly home that is totally self sufficient. I like the idea of the Nature Conservancy too. I like it so much that I would back my eco-friendly self sufficient home right next to Nature Conservancy property so my home value would increase.
Like you all, I don't buy the hysteria either.
Not to embarrass Cubeland, but once again, the man proves that he is the real thing, not a poseur bone in his body. I don't know much about the "straw bale" alternatives out there; I'm not doubting there is opposition to it. I only heard of one straw bale home -- friend of a friend. It's in Grove City, PA, my old home town. That place is as conservative as the day is long.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I see Catholics and other pro-life groups being their "own worst enemy", but from where I sit, the leftists are the worst enemy of their causes for more often. It's evident that the hypocrisy on that side doesn't get as much press-play.