Well, we have to hand it to them. It has been brilliant: Protect the “endangered climate” and flora and fauna species (with the knowledge of both defined and controlled by the “experts”).
All about money, power and control driven, not by altruism, but by scheming, lying hearts.
Well stated and all too true: "City people have to have views [...] Real country people live immersed, in fields, and meadows, forests and gardens."
We live on a farm, too near civilization but this is where our ancestors settled, when it was all wild, so here we are and fight to stay. My current job is remote but dominated by the crazies, mostly in a nearby university town. I hadn't put my finger on this thing that is so intensely irritating, which you've captured. I've stopped ever mentioning the farm because if one more person says how much they love nature and how great is it and can they bring their kids to experience nature I might not be able to take it politely.
Do I love it? Yes, inexpressibly so intensely and profoundly that I thank God every day for another morning, evening, day here. It is gloriously hard work that pulls me into things with enduring meaning and value for future generations -- *our* future generations, not voyeuristic vultures and predatory parasites. We're fighting every day to pay taxes, fend off purse-lipped do-gooders and officiously credentialed bureaucrats who have ideas about our land, strategizing constantly in hopes that we can keep the "greenscape" you want to be able to drive past and think smugly how 'progressive' this area is to 'protect' such areas. Protect us by regulating out of existence every 'dirty job' that doesn't give you a nice view, making our lives harder every single day.
You're the enemy, not my protector. No tourists allowed.
BellCat, great words! I’m about start a one old man business. We have a nice place, log cabin in a forest and all. I’d been planning to invite select people (customers) to come visit. Some will be from Dallas area suburbs. I’ll have to eye on them for sure or maybe skip the whole visitation idea.
Hah, don't take my word for it, and I hope your neighbors & customers are the other kind! There are lots of great people out there, I know that. Around here we have learned to be wary of certain (narrative-dominating) circles, professional busybodies, who may start with pleasing words but soon enough get around to sacrifices we should make to cater more fully to their druthers.
The most appalling part of this is that many of these environmental wackos are city-dwellers that want to impose their will upon those of us who live in rural areas. Eventually, they may get their way, and everyone may be trapped in their 15-minute cities of the future.
I grew up at the northern terminus of the teaspoon, the TSP., The Taconic State Parkway. It arrived in The early '60's having previously stopped just south of Claverack, NY. My father and I were Floor Sanders. Mule work, reserved for the warmer months, buck-25/sq. ft. The first bunch of "City People" we noticed were eager and excited to be here in an area filled with cows and apple orchards, and country folk. Oh, some of us were transplants brought up on the Harlem Valley RR, but most were country mice, with all that comes with it. Many of our friends still had outhouses,... really. The renovations were spectacularly expensive, some even showed up in magazines.
We were usually the last of the trades to leave. After the final coat we'd often return to set the furniture. Sometimes we'd see children and whole families appear, sometimes just a husband. But every once and a while, we'd see a woman, looking out her window, lost in thought. My father instructed me to be still, and leave her alone, leave her to her thoughts. I did.
There was something dear and sweet about it. And now, you have confirmed my suspicion that she was healing, that ah moment that felt good and right out there, out in the country, out in my country, out in our country.
It's all about China. We are a colony, and our job is to feed and protect the Mother Country. The job of Environmentalism is to stop us from USING and CONSUMING our precious coal and oil and hydropower, so China can have a total monopoly on those resources.
My favorite is the spotted owl. They spent billions on it claiming is was logging that was their doom. Turns out their doom is that they aren't a very good owl. The common barn owl is much better at owling and has taken over.
Another personal favorite - the California Gnatcatcher. I was in a group that owned some property in San Diego County. Around four acres if my memory serves me. We wanted to develop it but we were required to pay around $10k into a fund for the purchase of other property by the state for habitat for this bird. It seems that a state inspector heard the "vocalizations" of said Gnatcatcher when he visited the property. Of course there were billions of the same Gnatcatcher in Mexico but there were fewer in in California hence being threatened. The state ended up condemning the property for a new freeway overpass and scraped it bare for use as a construction parking lot while building the new freeway. So much for the California Gnatcatcher habitat.
When I got to this sentence in your article, "A comprehensive report on just one threatened species costs at least $9 billion," I understood in a flash that U.S. FEDGOV bureaucracy is even more corrupt than anything happening in Ukraine or anywhere else.
U.S. FEDGOV covers its tracks a better than the Ukraine thugs. Here in the U.S, lawfare make it all alright. U.S FEDGOV is a meticulously organized bureaucratic structure where funds (like the 9 billion you mention) are disbursed according to the edicts of an Administrative Law Judge. The ADLAW judges are extra-judicial and unionized like all the other bureaucrats.
The whole rotten scam got gigantic legs when JFK signed EO#10988 in January 1962. Based on language in that order, the Democrat-communist lawfare lawyers got busy and extended AFLCIO collective bargaining down, down, down to the state, county and city bureaucratic level. Using crooked lies cooked up by EPA and all the rest of the bureaus, agencies and commissions there will be no end their exploitation and fiduciary malfeasance until they are ALL put out to pasture, en masse. Let'm live on welfare, unemployment and foodstamps.
Where I live we have over 5000 wind turbines swinging 200ft long bird shredders. The foothills where the Godzilla-sized eyesores are was once a habitat for the California Condor and the Bald Eagle. Those majestic birds usually seen riding the thermals are now coyote carrion. Is there a link to show the populations of these endangered birds? Did the birds move their home or is environmentalists with their desire to destroy our energy grid with intermittent wind and solar environment destroyers succeeding in eliminating these once plentiful flying masterpieces?
The Eco-Nazis keep trying to introduce Grizzly Bears (Ursus Horriblus) into North Cascades National Park in Washington State. Black and cinnamon bears are dangerous enough in the wild. Grizzlies are killers. Besides there isn't enough food for the grizzlies in the North Cacades National Park. I've hiked in it dozens of times over the high passes and mountains. There is very little food for the bears.
The bears will go downhill into Stehekin and other towns in the foothills and ravage pets, garbage bins, BBQs, and people.
The National Park Service might as well fence off the North Cascades National Park as a dangerous wildlife zoo.
EN: Oh, that is the plan. The National Park Service has been trying to buy up the private land in Stehekin for decades. The NPS refuses to repair the road up the Stehekin Valley to Cottonwood Camp. Cottonwood Camp is the beginning of the trail over Cascade Pass which can be done in one day from Cottonwood or Johannesburg on the west side.
Now it's a two day hike over the pass to High Bridge where the shuttle bus takes hikers into or out of Stehekin.
High country access has been denied to all but the very fit.
I think you mean milkweed not dill weed. Native milkweed is best for monarch butterflies. Milkweed is the only food the babies eat. It also protects them (the white milk) from predators. Milkweed was a profuse weed but has been destroyed with land clearing. Butterflies are necessary just as bees and other pollinators.
Yes, I did a double take on "dill weed." At least here in the eastern states, people protect their milkweed for the Monarchs. Dill is also grown in some herb gardens, but I've never heard of a Monarch being interested in it.
Carolyn: When I was young in Nebraska, milkweed was common growing in the road ditches. Someone decided to eradicate it. Don't know when. Maybe when hippies started growing marijuana in the road ditches.
anthropomorphic climate change is one of the grandest (and not even original hoaxes every foisted upon humanity. There is one specific exception: geoengineering, which is in fact raining down on plants (including trees which are summarily dying from it), animals, water supplies, soil, and humans toxic metals and polymer-based nanoparticulate matter. Even the lamestream media cannot keep themselves from probing into the coating of bees and other insects with the toxins falling from ionospheric injections that are 30+ years active on us -- worldwide. The introduction of toxic metals and plastics to "dim the sun" and to extend the range and intensity of EMF-based microwave weapons, communications (including surveillance and control of populations), to facilitate the WBAN (wireless body area network - that's right, you're a human node on a vast network fueled by your bioenergy) and to engineer weather (in concert with HAARP and other co-opted technologies and methods fro ice nucleation, moving of entire systems, etc.) -- has proven much more dangerous than the usual diatribe about "CO2" (now complete with carbon sequestration facilities that offer "carbon credits" to polluters so they can offset their nastiness with climate-affirming technologies).
Now, stewardship of our (God-created and ecologically necessary and intentionally diverse) "natural" resources is another matter altogether. The "answer" is not to cordon off huge areas of every county, state, country, etc. to prevent human interaction (oh, so zoonotic spillover from animal "viruses" don't somehow in an unassisted and non laboratory manipulated manner mutate to become infectious to humans and vice versa) or to eliminate human & plant essential carbon -- it's to instead promote care and respect for the natural world (including animal populations in their most matural balanced habitats) -- so that the cycle of life and synergy/symbiosis can be restored and function correctly. Might that mean we enjoy fewer of the modern comforts that technology has promised as a panacea of all our pitiful 1st world preferences? Perhaps in some instances. But better to have a livable habitat than to continue to allow business interests, globalist connivings for power and control (and de-population, digitization and inventorying/control of all natural and manufactured/produced and living things for AI superintendence -- note the recent completion of Tempe AZ's "SMART" 15-minute city in keeping with the globalists' plans for those of us who survive the planned continuing culling exercises to reduce our numbers and "save the planet" for themselves and their neo feudal serf class of electronically enslaved humanoid/transhuman tax cattle.) I predict humankind already heavily propagandized, manipulated, ad controlled - completely deluded and living in the equivalent of a faux (virtual soon enough) reality, will comply for the convenience and "peace of mind" (whatever is left) that they seek to satisfy their own self-aggrandized "needs."
THe REAL science is in Genesis 1 -- God made it, He called it good and mankind has (under the influence and misdirection of the evil one who opposes the Creator and God of all) has exercised his full capability to steal, kill & destroy and to substitute a synthetic reality, material goods and now even biology to replace the beautiful organic world - the pristine and beautiful world that this once was -- with a techno-nightmare realities that are even now encroaching. Don't hug a tree - plant one. Don't just complain about the polluted water, land, animals and humans -- take steps to protect yourself and other and do not shirk from truthfully admitting we are part of the problem but we are also part of the solution. I suspect though that we will fail miserably and it will for while longer, appear we've lost. But God....
The environmental protections seem more of a way for the rich to control their neighbors then any actual meaningful conservation. California's Coastal Commission comes to mind. In my low income area I have over 4,000 wind turbines which obscure what used to be a beautiful serene desert view, it is now a chaotic industrial mess. The turbines produce less than half their rated capacity for energy production and chop up all the birds of prey and any migrating fowl who get too close, as well as little brown bats. But hey they are saving the planet, there won't be any birds but small price to pay to save the earth. My electric rate doubles from 5 to 8 pm, which discourages me using the precious "green energy" so folks who have more $$ than me can use it without fear of a blackout. The active gold mine near my home dumps half a mountain over undisturbed environment and is obliterating a beautiful landmark. My neighborhood is sparsely populated but we have many many huge industrial sized solar installations installed over what used to be fragile undisturbed desert forest. Then of course the transmission lines to take the power to the big cities hundreds of miles away. Joshua trees only grow in a very narrow area and well if you want to put up solar installation there is no problem clear cutting and grinding up the ancient trees. Working class folks get jacked while the rich have their little "coastal commission" to prevent their neighbor from removing an old oak tree or prevent a neighbor from putting up a fence that may block their view. Turbines, mines and industrial sized solar installations are completely out of the question. While working class folks get hundreds of 40 story tall wind turbines, island sized solar installations and complete destruction of beautiful view. Then get taxed out of our homes along with stupid inflation and ever increasing prices.
Wow, the research required here. Thank you.
Well, we have to hand it to them. It has been brilliant: Protect the “endangered climate” and flora and fauna species (with the knowledge of both defined and controlled by the “experts”).
All about money, power and control driven, not by altruism, but by scheming, lying hearts.
Well stated and all too true: "City people have to have views [...] Real country people live immersed, in fields, and meadows, forests and gardens."
We live on a farm, too near civilization but this is where our ancestors settled, when it was all wild, so here we are and fight to stay. My current job is remote but dominated by the crazies, mostly in a nearby university town. I hadn't put my finger on this thing that is so intensely irritating, which you've captured. I've stopped ever mentioning the farm because if one more person says how much they love nature and how great is it and can they bring their kids to experience nature I might not be able to take it politely.
Do I love it? Yes, inexpressibly so intensely and profoundly that I thank God every day for another morning, evening, day here. It is gloriously hard work that pulls me into things with enduring meaning and value for future generations -- *our* future generations, not voyeuristic vultures and predatory parasites. We're fighting every day to pay taxes, fend off purse-lipped do-gooders and officiously credentialed bureaucrats who have ideas about our land, strategizing constantly in hopes that we can keep the "greenscape" you want to be able to drive past and think smugly how 'progressive' this area is to 'protect' such areas. Protect us by regulating out of existence every 'dirty job' that doesn't give you a nice view, making our lives harder every single day.
You're the enemy, not my protector. No tourists allowed.
BellCat, great words! I’m about start a one old man business. We have a nice place, log cabin in a forest and all. I’d been planning to invite select people (customers) to come visit. Some will be from Dallas area suburbs. I’ll have to eye on them for sure or maybe skip the whole visitation idea.
Hah, don't take my word for it, and I hope your neighbors & customers are the other kind! There are lots of great people out there, I know that. Around here we have learned to be wary of certain (narrative-dominating) circles, professional busybodies, who may start with pleasing words but soon enough get around to sacrifices we should make to cater more fully to their druthers.
The most appalling part of this is that many of these environmental wackos are city-dwellers that want to impose their will upon those of us who live in rural areas. Eventually, they may get their way, and everyone may be trapped in their 15-minute cities of the future.
And they'll wonder why everyone is starving and miserable and crime rates are through the roof.
I grew up at the northern terminus of the teaspoon, the TSP., The Taconic State Parkway. It arrived in The early '60's having previously stopped just south of Claverack, NY. My father and I were Floor Sanders. Mule work, reserved for the warmer months, buck-25/sq. ft. The first bunch of "City People" we noticed were eager and excited to be here in an area filled with cows and apple orchards, and country folk. Oh, some of us were transplants brought up on the Harlem Valley RR, but most were country mice, with all that comes with it. Many of our friends still had outhouses,... really. The renovations were spectacularly expensive, some even showed up in magazines.
We were usually the last of the trades to leave. After the final coat we'd often return to set the furniture. Sometimes we'd see children and whole families appear, sometimes just a husband. But every once and a while, we'd see a woman, looking out her window, lost in thought. My father instructed me to be still, and leave her alone, leave her to her thoughts. I did.
There was something dear and sweet about it. And now, you have confirmed my suspicion that she was healing, that ah moment that felt good and right out there, out in the country, out in my country, out in our country.
Ralph Ambrosio: I would have told the woman gazing out of the window, "Watch out for the Mohicans. They tend to go on the warpath this time of year."
But I have a sick sense of humor.
It's all about China. We are a colony, and our job is to feed and protect the Mother Country. The job of Environmentalism is to stop us from USING and CONSUMING our precious coal and oil and hydropower, so China can have a total monopoly on those resources.
Chinese pollution is out of sight, out of mind for our U S environmental Nazis! There is actually only one sky and one ocean.
My favorite is the spotted owl. They spent billions on it claiming is was logging that was their doom. Turns out their doom is that they aren't a very good owl. The common barn owl is much better at owling and has taken over.
Another personal favorite - the California Gnatcatcher. I was in a group that owned some property in San Diego County. Around four acres if my memory serves me. We wanted to develop it but we were required to pay around $10k into a fund for the purchase of other property by the state for habitat for this bird. It seems that a state inspector heard the "vocalizations" of said Gnatcatcher when he visited the property. Of course there were billions of the same Gnatcatcher in Mexico but there were fewer in in California hence being threatened. The state ended up condemning the property for a new freeway overpass and scraped it bare for use as a construction parking lot while building the new freeway. So much for the California Gnatcatcher habitat.
Dan Hartley: Eminent Domain trumps environmentalism every time.
When I got to this sentence in your article, "A comprehensive report on just one threatened species costs at least $9 billion," I understood in a flash that U.S. FEDGOV bureaucracy is even more corrupt than anything happening in Ukraine or anywhere else.
U.S. FEDGOV covers its tracks a better than the Ukraine thugs. Here in the U.S, lawfare make it all alright. U.S FEDGOV is a meticulously organized bureaucratic structure where funds (like the 9 billion you mention) are disbursed according to the edicts of an Administrative Law Judge. The ADLAW judges are extra-judicial and unionized like all the other bureaucrats.
The whole rotten scam got gigantic legs when JFK signed EO#10988 in January 1962. Based on language in that order, the Democrat-communist lawfare lawyers got busy and extended AFLCIO collective bargaining down, down, down to the state, county and city bureaucratic level. Using crooked lies cooked up by EPA and all the rest of the bureaus, agencies and commissions there will be no end their exploitation and fiduciary malfeasance until they are ALL put out to pasture, en masse. Let'm live on welfare, unemployment and foodstamps.
Where I live we have over 5000 wind turbines swinging 200ft long bird shredders. The foothills where the Godzilla-sized eyesores are was once a habitat for the California Condor and the Bald Eagle. Those majestic birds usually seen riding the thermals are now coyote carrion. Is there a link to show the populations of these endangered birds? Did the birds move their home or is environmentalists with their desire to destroy our energy grid with intermittent wind and solar environment destroyers succeeding in eliminating these once plentiful flying masterpieces?
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I am so grateful for your ability to research all these details. It is very impressive. Your words are reaching many places and we all love you!
Great read. See also Willis Eschenbach maybe 10 years ago for more on the species "Red List".
The Eco-Nazis keep trying to introduce Grizzly Bears (Ursus Horriblus) into North Cascades National Park in Washington State. Black and cinnamon bears are dangerous enough in the wild. Grizzlies are killers. Besides there isn't enough food for the grizzlies in the North Cacades National Park. I've hiked in it dozens of times over the high passes and mountains. There is very little food for the bears.
The bears will go downhill into Stehekin and other towns in the foothills and ravage pets, garbage bins, BBQs, and people.
The National Park Service might as well fence off the North Cascades National Park as a dangerous wildlife zoo.
You can visit the park via drone video footage.
Maybe the plan after all
EN: Oh, that is the plan. The National Park Service has been trying to buy up the private land in Stehekin for decades. The NPS refuses to repair the road up the Stehekin Valley to Cottonwood Camp. Cottonwood Camp is the beginning of the trail over Cascade Pass which can be done in one day from Cottonwood or Johannesburg on the west side.
Now it's a two day hike over the pass to High Bridge where the shuttle bus takes hikers into or out of Stehekin.
High country access has been denied to all but the very fit.
I think you mean milkweed not dill weed. Native milkweed is best for monarch butterflies. Milkweed is the only food the babies eat. It also protects them (the white milk) from predators. Milkweed was a profuse weed but has been destroyed with land clearing. Butterflies are necessary just as bees and other pollinators.
Not according to Rob Hunter
Yes, I did a double take on "dill weed." At least here in the eastern states, people protect their milkweed for the Monarchs. Dill is also grown in some herb gardens, but I've never heard of a Monarch being interested in it.
Carolyn: When I was young in Nebraska, milkweed was common growing in the road ditches. Someone decided to eradicate it. Don't know when. Maybe when hippies started growing marijuana in the road ditches.
Elizabeth, your property is beautiful. You are blessed...
anthropomorphic climate change is one of the grandest (and not even original hoaxes every foisted upon humanity. There is one specific exception: geoengineering, which is in fact raining down on plants (including trees which are summarily dying from it), animals, water supplies, soil, and humans toxic metals and polymer-based nanoparticulate matter. Even the lamestream media cannot keep themselves from probing into the coating of bees and other insects with the toxins falling from ionospheric injections that are 30+ years active on us -- worldwide. The introduction of toxic metals and plastics to "dim the sun" and to extend the range and intensity of EMF-based microwave weapons, communications (including surveillance and control of populations), to facilitate the WBAN (wireless body area network - that's right, you're a human node on a vast network fueled by your bioenergy) and to engineer weather (in concert with HAARP and other co-opted technologies and methods fro ice nucleation, moving of entire systems, etc.) -- has proven much more dangerous than the usual diatribe about "CO2" (now complete with carbon sequestration facilities that offer "carbon credits" to polluters so they can offset their nastiness with climate-affirming technologies).
Now, stewardship of our (God-created and ecologically necessary and intentionally diverse) "natural" resources is another matter altogether. The "answer" is not to cordon off huge areas of every county, state, country, etc. to prevent human interaction (oh, so zoonotic spillover from animal "viruses" don't somehow in an unassisted and non laboratory manipulated manner mutate to become infectious to humans and vice versa) or to eliminate human & plant essential carbon -- it's to instead promote care and respect for the natural world (including animal populations in their most matural balanced habitats) -- so that the cycle of life and synergy/symbiosis can be restored and function correctly. Might that mean we enjoy fewer of the modern comforts that technology has promised as a panacea of all our pitiful 1st world preferences? Perhaps in some instances. But better to have a livable habitat than to continue to allow business interests, globalist connivings for power and control (and de-population, digitization and inventorying/control of all natural and manufactured/produced and living things for AI superintendence -- note the recent completion of Tempe AZ's "SMART" 15-minute city in keeping with the globalists' plans for those of us who survive the planned continuing culling exercises to reduce our numbers and "save the planet" for themselves and their neo feudal serf class of electronically enslaved humanoid/transhuman tax cattle.) I predict humankind already heavily propagandized, manipulated, ad controlled - completely deluded and living in the equivalent of a faux (virtual soon enough) reality, will comply for the convenience and "peace of mind" (whatever is left) that they seek to satisfy their own self-aggrandized "needs."
THe REAL science is in Genesis 1 -- God made it, He called it good and mankind has (under the influence and misdirection of the evil one who opposes the Creator and God of all) has exercised his full capability to steal, kill & destroy and to substitute a synthetic reality, material goods and now even biology to replace the beautiful organic world - the pristine and beautiful world that this once was -- with a techno-nightmare realities that are even now encroaching. Don't hug a tree - plant one. Don't just complain about the polluted water, land, animals and humans -- take steps to protect yourself and other and do not shirk from truthfully admitting we are part of the problem but we are also part of the solution. I suspect though that we will fail miserably and it will for while longer, appear we've lost. But God....
The environmental protections seem more of a way for the rich to control their neighbors then any actual meaningful conservation. California's Coastal Commission comes to mind. In my low income area I have over 4,000 wind turbines which obscure what used to be a beautiful serene desert view, it is now a chaotic industrial mess. The turbines produce less than half their rated capacity for energy production and chop up all the birds of prey and any migrating fowl who get too close, as well as little brown bats. But hey they are saving the planet, there won't be any birds but small price to pay to save the earth. My electric rate doubles from 5 to 8 pm, which discourages me using the precious "green energy" so folks who have more $$ than me can use it without fear of a blackout. The active gold mine near my home dumps half a mountain over undisturbed environment and is obliterating a beautiful landmark. My neighborhood is sparsely populated but we have many many huge industrial sized solar installations installed over what used to be fragile undisturbed desert forest. Then of course the transmission lines to take the power to the big cities hundreds of miles away. Joshua trees only grow in a very narrow area and well if you want to put up solar installation there is no problem clear cutting and grinding up the ancient trees. Working class folks get jacked while the rich have their little "coastal commission" to prevent their neighbor from removing an old oak tree or prevent a neighbor from putting up a fence that may block their view. Turbines, mines and industrial sized solar installations are completely out of the question. While working class folks get hundreds of 40 story tall wind turbines, island sized solar installations and complete destruction of beautiful view. Then get taxed out of our homes along with stupid inflation and ever increasing prices.