GREENIES SHAFTING ORDINARY PEOPLE AGAIN

"In Orange County, renting an apartment can cost what a younger person, new to the marketplace, earns a month. So new houses are a dire human necessity. The more built, the lower the cost, including of apartments, since those who move into homes will ease up the demand. This is elementary economics.

Ah, now come certain "biologists"- of the Oregon- and San Diego-based Conservation Biology Institute - who claim that "rare species [and] wildland would be jeopardized" under a developer's plans to increase human homes here. "Significant portions of important breeding and feeding sites for a variety of rare or troubled species could be lost, the biologists say," according to a Register report.

By what standard of "important" do these "biologists," who at their best are but natural scientists and not ethicists or political theorists, determine such matters? Who would be those to whom these sites would be "lost"? One can only lose something if one owns it, and it is only those who own the land that's to be developed who are to lose anything here, not the "biologists," conservationists, ecologists or environmentalists.

Or do we now have a country in which these elites are granted the authority to take whatever they happen to deem "important" from those who actually own it? No objective criteria are provided for determining this supposed "importance." In fact, the environmental extremists, who discount human goals and interests as something unworthy and negligible, have nothing intelligible to offer when asked by what criteria this matter of "importance" is to be decided....

In nature, there will often be rivalry for space and resources, and the "biologists" who chime in so cavalierly about what is lost when human habitats are expanded are engaging not in science but in vested-interest politics and hyperbole - they prefer the wilds as they are, so they want it all preserved, period. And they neglect entirely to consider that this costs human beings millions and millions, not because some greater good is being attained in the process but simply to satisfy arbitrary wishes backed with junk science.

It is also really outrageous that those who defend human habitation in these areas are dismissed as nothing but crass profiteers, as if building homes for people were not every bit as honorable a task as giving them an education, providing for their medical care or helping them to find good vacation spots....

In fact, it is often the environmental extremists who lack the requisite measure of humanity to advise a sensible public policy on these issues".

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Many people would like to be kind to others so Leftists exploit that with their nonsense about equality. Most people want a clean, green environment so Greenies exploit that by inventing all sorts of far-fetched threats to the environment. But for both, the real motive is to promote themselves as wiser and better than everyone else, truth regardless.

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