One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
Watch Out For Wackos
The first time I read that world Socialists are the driving force behind the environmental movement because they see it as a way to cut the legs off of the U.S. economy and destroy capitalism, I felt it was a little too conspiratorial sounding for credibility. Now, I believe it to be true.
I exclude Zealots like Al Gore and the Hollywood activists who are merely well-meaning dupes who want to attract attention and feel good about themselves. Gore served up the environmental pig to the lemming-like media, the media ate the whole pig, and then went to work propagandizing the public. We regularly see some publicity-hungry scientist string together a few quasi-technical terms about green house effect, the ozone, and publishes a study accusing man-made global warming of causing everything from hurricanes to hives. To appear precise, he might give a statistical confidence level of say 85%. Beware folks, any time a scientist gives a percentage of confidence in his results, you are not witnessing science; you are seeing a feeble attempt to prove a preconceived notion without true scientific proof. There are many of these crusaders out there beating the drums of environmentalism without any real scientific foundation and claiming world destruction if their warnings are ignored. In 1972, the enviro-wackos warned us of global cooling. Rachel Carson's anti-pesticide diatribe "Silent Spring," published in 1962 caused a ban on DDT and the subsequent death of a million deaths every year of malaria, which had been virtually eradicated at that point by DDT. Twelve years later a scientific panel found the DDT scare was unsubstantiated but, by then, world opinion was so entrenched against the pesticide that it is not used to this day. Crusader Ralph Nader single handedly destroyed the Chevrolet Corvair with his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, and a few years later the Federal Safety Board found the car to be no more dangerous than any other car in that category.