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Environmentalism exposed: a review of Green Hell
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Contemporary environmentalists maintain a respectable popular image. They fashion themselves as citizens of the world who share “a concern for the conservation and improvement of the environment”. This popular image, however, is quite cartoonish and serves as a smokescreen to disguise their often radical socialist ideologies and extreme political ends, according to author Steve Milloy.
After reading Milloy’s latest offering, Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them, you could safely conclude that modern environmentalism is a regressive, anti-growth, anti-life movement whose end goal is totalitarianism. If you're skeptical of such a harsh charge, read the environmentalists’ own literature, as Milloy has done exhaustively, and see for yourself.
The truth about environmentalists becomes evident once you recognize their preferred method of political activism. Whatever is in question their answer is always more restrictions on consumption and excessive government intervention.
Instead of advocating real solutions to the disasters they claim are imminent, "greens,” as Milloy dubs them, typically pursue only those solutions which hurt your standard of living and require you to submit to coercive, sometimes-dangerous public policies. This is the reoccurring green tactic documented throughout the book.
For example, after drumming up panic over alleged water shortages what answers did the greens offer? Forced conservation in the form of "a nationwide moratorium on withdrawals from, and diversions of rivers [...] groundwater use restrictions [...] and redirecting federal efforts away from designing new water development projects [...]" Now what about efforts that could actually increase the supply of freshwater such as desalination plants? When a California community opted to build one such plant to provide more water local environmental groups argued that the plant would "increase energy use, kill sea life, encourage sprawl, privatize water, and waste money." Similarly, importing freshwater from countries with bountiful supplies is opposed by groups like the Sierra Club because commercial water exports have “serious ecological, trade, and human rights ramifications.” What exactly those are is unknown.
But water rationing is small potatoes. The defining issue for the modern environmental movement is anthropogenic global warming. After all, global warming “is the most urgent environmental crisis of our time,” according to Greenpeace. If this is so, how do the greens suggest we address global warming? Do we pursue viable, emissions-free energy options like nuclear power? Nope. We litigate those out of existence and allow utility companies to remotely control the amount of electricity private homes can use. Better yet, say the greens, we implement a carbon rationing scheme in which the federal government will regulate how much carbon dioxide businesses and individuals can emit.
The most abhorrent characteristic of the greens, however, is their view of humans. We are a burden on mother earth and the fewer of us there are the better. It is this cheerful view of human life that leads people like population biologist Paul Ehrlich to suggest population control as a means to protect the environment. If only the technology was available, Ehrlich and co. would like to add temporarily-sterilizing chemicals to the world's food and water supplies. In fact, Ehrlich decried this inability to sterilize entire populations as a “criminal inadequacy of biomedical research.”
Fortunately, not all hope is lost. Green Hell ends with dozens of ways to get involved and prevent an environmentalist takeover in America. While you have to read the book find out all the details, the general theme is, get involved and voice your opinion. The environmentalist movement is well-organized and composed of dedicated activists. If we want to stop them we must be as well.
In summary, Steve Milloy does a fantastic job of busting the greenies PR campaign and exposing their foolish social engineering schemes. Green Hell is a master resource on the environmental movement that every freedom-loving American should own.
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