Comments on: World’s Scariest Words: ‘I’m an Environmentalist and I’m Here to Help’ http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:59:14 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jakeoutsidethebox http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-332158 jakeoutsidethebox Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:09:38 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-332158 You're logic is about as fuzzy as WIRED magazine's. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/06/wired-magazines-incoherent-truths/ You’re logic is about as fuzzy as WIRED magazine’s.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/06/wired-magazines-incoherent-truths/

]]> By: pashley http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60563 pashley Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:52:51 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60563 After attending (another) "too many people" conference 2 weeks ago, you realize that the people advocating green solutions are simply trying to improve their lives. They have food, shelter, entertainment, vacations, seeming everything. The next step up for them would be less people jostling with them for common goods; traffic congestion, grocery lines, event tickets. That their solution would require a totalitarian suppression of other people is of no concern at all to them. After attending (another) “too many people” conference 2 weeks ago, you realize that the people advocating green solutions are simply trying to improve their lives. They have food, shelter, entertainment, vacations, seeming everything. The next step up for them would be less people jostling with them for common goods; traffic congestion, grocery lines, event tickets.

That their solution would require a totalitarian suppression of other people is of no concern at all to them.

]]> By: Sandra M http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60385 Sandra M Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:14:44 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60385 I live in a county where wealthy people don't want more people moving in. How to stop development? Join environmental groups which can always find a soon to be extinct insect or bird or "is that puddle a wetland" Must protect it. I looked up my county supervisor's background and supporters and could not believe how many environmental groups there are. Rachel Carson's influence has led to our producing mosquito netting for Africans rather than giving them the DDT which would kill those deadly mosquitoes. I am a connoisseur of clean air: Bel Air, CA is aptly named and the Fairfax, Ca hills have the most delicious air I've breathed). I am a connoisseur of great water (Spain had the best bottled water (for my biochemical makeup) but I've forgotten the name of the bottler). And neither Brita nor most bottled waters I've sampled are as goo However, when I hear that progress in Arkansas gets stopped because maybe a few years ago someone saw a woodpecker thought to be extinct. They're not sure, but maybe, then I think these people are screwy and/or evil. Beware the WATERMELONS: green on the outside, red on the inside. I live in a county where wealthy people don’t want more people moving in. How to stop development? Join environmental groups which can always find a soon to be extinct insect or bird or “is that puddle a wetland” Must protect it.

I looked up my county supervisor’s background and supporters and could not believe how many environmental groups there are.

Rachel Carson’s influence has led to our producing mosquito netting for Africans rather than giving them the DDT which would kill those deadly mosquitoes.

I am a connoisseur of clean air: Bel Air, CA is aptly named and the Fairfax, Ca hills have the most delicious air I’ve breathed). I am a connoisseur of great water (Spain had the best bottled water (for my biochemical makeup) but I’ve forgotten the name of the bottler). And neither Brita nor most bottled waters I’ve sampled are as goo

However, when I hear that progress in Arkansas gets stopped because maybe a few years ago someone saw a woodpecker thought to be extinct. They’re not sure, but maybe, then I think these people are screwy and/or evil.

Beware the WATERMELONS: green on the outside, red on the inside.

]]> By: Sandra M http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60380 Sandra M Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:57:56 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60380 Superb column, Mary Madigan, and I love your joining the debate. Here's another story to curl your hair, this one about biofuel subsidies, where the Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in and is costing us millions of dollars. William LaJeunesse, one of Fox News Channel's best journalists, reported yesterday on E.D. Hill's America's Pulse, on a biofuel scandal costing us millions of dollars caused by an IRS loophole called SPLASH AND DASH. We subsidize corn and soybean biofuels at $1.00 per gallon subsidy for every gallon of biodiesel blended with regular diesel. Then the law of unintended consequences kicked in. Some smart guys found a loophole. Tankers carrying sugar cane fuel from South America or palm oil from Asia will come over filled with 9 million gallons of biofuel, they'll dock in Houston or New Orleans, top off with 1% diesel, then that tanker will go to Europe where they will sell at below market rates, but the entire tanker qualifies for the $1. subsidy, $9 million dollars of US taxpayer money subsidizing the fuel of European drivers. The problem with closing the loophole is that the farmers want the subsidy because there's a huge market overseas for biodiesel as well and the environmentalists want to encourage biofuels whereas the American driver wants lower gas prices. What to do? Well, I went ballistic and called my congressional representatives offices locally. Their numbers are in the government pages in the front of your phonebook. Print them out. We should make lots of calls in the next 4 1/2 months. After that, it will be too late, then voters become unimportant and special interest money becomes king until it's time for the next election. Capitol Switchboard 202-225-3121. I have become an America Firster because we are AT WAR. Our trade deals are hurting us because our best representatives too often become lobbyists for the other side: China, Japan, South Korea et al. A political friend heeded my appeal to sign Newt Gingrich's Drill Here, Drill Now petition but wisely added: Drill Here, Drill Now , and SELL HERE. Congressman Shattuck is the one leading the fight to close the biofuels tax loophole. I support family farmers because Mother nature can be a real B*tich, I do not support agribusiness and I'd like to see these "smart guys" (and the oil speculators) fined of ALL their money. Superb column, Mary Madigan, and I love your joining the debate.

Here’s another story to curl your hair, this one about biofuel subsidies, where the Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in and is costing us millions of dollars.

William LaJeunesse, one of Fox News Channel’s best journalists, reported yesterday on E.D. Hill’s America’s Pulse, on a biofuel scandal costing us millions of dollars caused by an IRS loophole called SPLASH AND DASH. We subsidize corn and soybean biofuels at $1.00 per gallon subsidy for every gallon of biodiesel blended with regular diesel.

Then the law of unintended consequences kicked in. Some smart guys found a loophole. Tankers carrying sugar cane fuel from South America or palm oil from Asia will come over filled with 9 million gallons of biofuel, they’ll dock in Houston or New Orleans, top off with 1% diesel, then that tanker will go to Europe where they will sell at below market rates, but the entire tanker qualifies for the $1. subsidy, $9 million dollars of US taxpayer money subsidizing the fuel of European drivers.

The problem with closing the loophole is that the farmers want the subsidy because there’s a huge market overseas for biodiesel as well and the environmentalists want to encourage biofuels whereas the American driver wants lower gas prices. What to do?

Well, I went ballistic and called my congressional representatives offices locally. Their numbers are in the government pages in the front of your phonebook. Print them out. We should make lots of calls in the next 4 1/2 months. After that, it will be too late, then voters become unimportant and special interest money becomes king until it’s time for the next election. Capitol Switchboard 202-225-3121.

I have become an America Firster because we are AT WAR. Our trade deals are hurting us because our best representatives too often become lobbyists for the other side: China, Japan, South Korea et al. A political friend heeded my appeal to sign Newt Gingrich’s Drill Here, Drill Now petition but wisely added: Drill Here, Drill Now , and SELL HERE. Congressman Shattuck is the one leading the fight to close the biofuels tax loophole. I support family farmers because Mother nature can be a real B*tich, I do not support agribusiness and I’d like to see these “smart guys” (and the oil speculators) fined of ALL their money.

]]> By: Mary Madigan http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60379 Mary Madigan Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:51:32 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60379 Javelin - if environmentalists were as outraged by unnecessary (human) third world deaths as they are by criticism, this kind of article wouldn't be necessary. Javelin – if environmentalists were as outraged by unnecessary (human) third world deaths as they are by criticism, this kind of article wouldn’t be necessary.

]]> By: Javelin http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60358 Javelin Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:03:33 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60358 THe new enemy of humanity, environmentalists. They are all Marxist, Pagan, baby killing, Islamo-loving, Obama voting, pot smoking, tree hugging luddites who need to interned and liquidated so our blissful progress can go on THe new enemy of humanity, environmentalists. They are all Marxist, Pagan, baby killing, Islamo-loving, Obama voting, pot smoking, tree hugging luddites who need to interned and liquidated so our blissful progress can go on

]]> By: Javelin http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60357 Javelin Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:59:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60357 Mary is being as shallow and unscientific in her attack as some of the environmentalists she is castigating. THis is the kind of pap churned out so some fool with his Bush/Cheney sticker on his Hummer can feel not only good, but actually righteous. Mary is being as shallow and unscientific in her attack as some of the environmentalists she is castigating. THis is the kind of pap churned out so some fool with his Bush/Cheney sticker on his Hummer can feel not only good, but actually righteous.

]]> By: Will Becker http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60304 Will Becker Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:20:27 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60304 Well put Mary,I could'nt have said it better. Well put Mary,I could’nt have said it better.

]]> By: J F Beck http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60275 J F Beck Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:14:18 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60275 Boris, much of Lambert's DDT writing is outright crap. He is not to be trusted, ever. Boris, much of Lambert’s DDT writing is outright crap. He is not to be trusted, ever.

]]> By: Boris http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-60264 Boris Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:25:24 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/world%e2%80%99s-scariest-words-%e2%80%98i%e2%80%99m-an-environmentalist-and-i%e2%80%99m-here-to-help%e2%80%99/#comment-60264 Mary, Lambert gives sources. Is it your contention that Principles and Practice of Marlariology is wrong? DDT did not magically become ineffective. It's called evolution, another scientific principle that right wingers seem to have a problem with. It takes a lot of effort to remain as misinformed as you are. And relying on J F Beck is folly. Again, do some actual research. Crack some actual scientific sources. Mary,

Lambert gives sources. Is it your contention that Principles and Practice of Marlariology is wrong?

DDT did not magically become ineffective. It’s called evolution, another scientific principle that right wingers seem to have a problem with.

It takes a lot of effort to remain as misinformed as you are. And relying on J F Beck is folly. Again, do some actual research. Crack some actual scientific sources.

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