Wanting clean air and clean water does not make you an
environmentalist any more than saluting the flag makes you a patriot.
Environmentalism is an ideology -- a religious ideology that
worships nature above man. When searching for the meaning of an
ideology, it is irrelevant to look at its least consistent
practitioners. One must read the works of the movements leaders.
So, Mr. Morrison and company, it would do you well to actually
read the works of the leading environmentalists. If you do, you will
find that nature is made into a god to be worshiped, and man must
take a back seat to mud puddles, Arctic wastelands, and snails. One
example is the spread of the West Nile virus here in Southern
California. The bugs that carry the virus could be wiped out in a day
with DDT, but the environmentalists won't stand for that!
Environmentalists didn't make the planet inhabitable; they want it
uninhabited -- by man.
Industrialism made the earth safe for man. The world was dirtier
before industrialization. The skies were filled with smoke from wood
fires, the rivers filled with bacteria, manure in every direction.
No, nature is not man's friends. Don't believe me? I invite Mr.
Morrison and friends to take a vacation in nature -- they wouldn't
last a day. Remember, no sunscreen, no insect repellent, no clothing,
no supermarket food, no clean drinking water.
As for pollution? To live is to produce waste; that is a necessary
consequence of life. Wanting to live in a near pollution-free world
isn't a doctrine of environmentalism. That's just common sense.
RAY SHELTON
Glendale
