Dams — Klamath Falls and the Hypocrital Green Movement.
June 4th, 2007 by Kent LassmanShikha Dalmia has an excellent essay from The Wall Street Journal on hypocricy within the environmental movement and the historical distinction between conservationists and preservationists. Dalmia works with our friends over at Reason.
Key lines: “If their opposition to the Klamath hydroelectric dams in the Pacific Northwest is any indication, the greens, it appears, are just as unwilling to sacrifice their pet causes as a Texas rancher is to sacrifice his pickup truck. If anything, the radicalization of the environmental movement is the bigger obstacle to addressing global warming than the allegedly gluttonous American way of life.”
Hat tip to GS.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:25 am
I do so hope you are not counting the Klamath, Modoc, Yahooskin or any other indian tribes in this. They have a vested interest in this. The fisheries that were given to them by the U.S. Government. By the way, look at the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin logging practises before the US decided to take their lands granted by treaties. They had the only sustainable logging practices in our nation at that time and those are still being studied to improve todays sustainable logging practices. In fact todays logging practices still fall way short.