{"id":575,"date":"2006-10-29T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argee.net\/wordpress\/?p=575"},"modified":"2006-10-29T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T23:35:00","slug":"ch-01-on-being-green-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Ch. 01 \u2013 On Being Green (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 51px; height: 21px; overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"51\" data-show-faces=\"false\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\" data-text=\"Ch. 01 \u2013 On Being Green (Part 4)\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_digg\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D575&amp;title=Ch.+01+%E2%80%93+On+Being+Green+%28Part+4%29\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/digg.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D575\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/reddit.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Submit to reddit\" title=\"Submit to reddit\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\" data-text=\"Ch. 01 \u2013 On Being Green (Part 4)\" data-desc=\"\u00a0This article is an excerpt from Chapter one in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts' Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link. This is the fourth of eleven parts for Chapter one that will be presented here sequentially.\" data-image=\"http:\/\/old.thedeadhand.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=33754\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><blockquote dir=ltr><p>\n<P class=CM7><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=1>&nbsp;<FONT color=#0000ff><EM>This article is an excerpt from Chapter one in my new book<\/EM> The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts&#8217; Lies.<I> You can find out more about the book <A href=\"http:\/\/chickenlittleagenda.com\/Sky1.htm\" target=_blank>here<\/A>, and can order the book from this <A href=\"http:\/\/chickenlittleagenda\/Sky5.htm\" target=_blank>link<\/A>. This is the fourth of eleven parts for Chapter one that will be presented here sequentially. Click <A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/thrawnrickle.argee.net\/2006\/10\/28\/ch-01--the-green-revolution--what-really-happened-part-3-of-13.aspx\" target=_blank>here<\/A> to read Part 3.<\/I><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><SPAN><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#000000 size=2>Chapter 1<\/FONT><\/B><\/P><br \/>\n<P align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana size=2>The Green Revolution<\/FONT><\/B><\/P><br \/>\n<P align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=2><STRONG>On Being Green<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/P><\/SPAN><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy being green,\u201d crooned Kermit the Muppet to an entire generation of tykes. Columnist Alston Chase quoted a German Green politician who had been recently elected to the <I>Bundestag\u2014<\/I>the German parliament: \u201cGrass-roots democracy sounded wonderful before we were elected to Parliament. But now we are in power, centralized solutions seem far more effective.\u201d <?xml:namespace prefix = o \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2>\u201cGreen\u201d is an idea whose time has come. It is impos&shy;sible today to find a politician who will disavow \u201cthe environment.\u201d From every side of the political spec&shy;trum, long-term members and candidate wannabes alike decry radical actions by fringe Greens, while giv&shy;ing lip service to their so-called underlying principles. Does \u201cGreen,\u201d as <I>Time <\/I>magazine says, merely mean \u201cour stand on the planet is that we support its sur&shy;vival\u201d? Or is there something behind the rhetoric of survival, beyond National Wildlife calendars, beneath Hollywood movie-star environmental protests? <o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2>David Brower, who at eighty-eight succumbed to cancer on November 5, 2000, was widely considered to be the \u201cArchdruid\u201d of the American environmental movement. In their 1993 book <I>Trashing the Economy, <\/I>Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb quote Brower: \u201cI found&shy;ed Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth look reasonable. Earth First! now makes us look reasonable. We\u2019re still wait&shy;ing for someone to come along and make Earth First! look reasonable.\u201d (Earth First! is the group responsible for spiking trees, sabotaging logging equipment, and undertaking other terrorist activities in the name of the environment.) <o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2>Brower was arguably the most influential of the environmental activists. He set the tone for the inter&shy;national Green movement: strident and extreme. In her 1990 book <I>Trashing the Planet, <\/I>the late Dixy Lee Ray quotes Brower: \u201cChildbearing [should be] a pun&shy;ishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. . . . All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the gov&shy;ernment issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for child&shy;bearing.\u201d Catherine Foster writing in <I>The Christian Science Monitor <\/I>on April 8, 1991, quotes Brower: \u201cMore is a four letter word. . . . I\u2019d like to declare open sea&shy;son on developers. Not kill them, just tranquilize them.\u201d Dixy Lee Ray quotes his mantra in 1993 in her book <I>Environmental Overkill: <\/I>\u201cWhile the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.\u201d <o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2>Wendell Berry, an eloquent agrarian admired by Greens, writes: \u201cIn living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent workers or techni&shy;cians or intellectuals in a society of specialists.\u201d Stephanie Mills, the Green journalist, puts it this way: \u201c[Recreation activities of young moderns] may not cul&shy;tivate the endurance necessary for the kind of labor required to dismantle industrial society and restore the Earth\u2019s productivity.\u201d Elsewhere she writes, \u201cThe ecofascist in me finds it hard to trust even the out&shy;come of a democratic process.\u201d She goes on to imply that the only way to save the Earth is for an elite group of biology-smart ecologists to rule the rest of us with benevolent firmness. She concludes that a major ele&shy;ment in bringing this about is totally abolishing pri&shy;vate ownership of land. <o:p><\/o:p><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Is this beginning to sound familiar? <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<P class=CM2><SPAN><EM><FONT face=Verdana size=2>(Part 5 of 11 follows)<\/FONT><\/EM><\/SPAN><\/P><SPAN><br \/>\n<P class=CM8><FONT face=Garamond><FONT size=4><FONT size=1><FONT face=Verdana><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=1>\u00a9 2006 \u2013 <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/argee.net\/\" target=_blank><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=1><FONT color=#0000ff>Robert G. Williscroft<\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><\/SPAN><IMG height=1 src=\"http:\/\/old.thedeadhand.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=33754\" width=1><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 51px; height: 21px; overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"51\" data-show-faces=\"false\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\" data-text=\"Ch. 01 \u2013 On Being Green (Part 4)\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_digg\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D575&amp;title=Ch.+01+%E2%80%93+On+Being+Green+%28Part+4%29\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/digg.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D575\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/reddit.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Submit to reddit\" title=\"Submit to reddit\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=575\" data-text=\"Ch. 01 \u2013 On Being Green (Part 4)\" data-desc=\"\u00a0This article is an excerpt from Chapter one in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts' Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link. This is the fourth of eleven parts for Chapter one that will be presented here sequentially.\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p>&nbsp;This article is an excerpt from Chapter one in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts&#8217; Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link. This is the fourth of eleven parts for Chapter one that will be presented here sequentially. 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