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Veteran pro-human journalist and commentator Robert James Bidinotto has launched a web site to promote the cause of human beings and kick the synthetic stuffing out of environmentalism's alleged moral "case" for treating human beings like dirt.
In a succinct home-page apologia, Bidinotto briefs newcomers on what he's fighting for--and against.
"Typically, the person who calls himself an 'environmentalist' is really just a nature-loving 'conservationist,' " notes Bidinotto. "Appreciating the earth's natural beauty and bounty, he is understandably concerned about trash, noise, pollution, and poisons. Still, he sees the earth and its bounty as resources--resources for intelligent human use, development, and enjoyment. At root, then, his concern for the earth is human-centered: he believes that this is our environment, to be used by people to enhance their lives, well-being, and happiness.
"But the leaders of the organized environmentalist movement have a very different attitude and agenda.
"Their basic premise is that human activities to develop natural resources constitute a desecration of nature--that, in fact, nature exists for its own sake, not for human use and enjoyment....Their basic agenda, therefore, is to stop the 'assault' and 'onslaught' of human activity: to place every possible impediment to man's further development of the earth and its resources."
In a lengthier manifesto on the site, Bidinotto provides a detailed, chapter-and-verse expose of the environmentalist movement, its ideas, and its vicious and irresponsible tactics--some of which he investigated up-close and personally during his years as an investigative reporter for Reader's Digest. And he explains why he's taking on the moral-philosphical claims of the environmentalists rather than simply refuting once again the already multifariously refuted bogus economic contentions and bogus scientific contentions of the environmentalists.
"Why is it that any touch of Man upon nature is to be regarded as a violation and desecration?" Bidinotto asks. "What is the distinctive aspect of human nature that so offends the environmentalists?
"As they make clear in virtually every utterance, it is Man's power to reason, and everything that flows from it: abstract knowledge, science, technology, material wealth, industrial society, the capitalist system."
Bidinotto has also launched a blog, accessible from the ecoNOT.com home page, to discuss environmentalism and other topics in the news. His first non-housekeeping entry gently chides dunderheaded "experts" in criminology who say they have absolutely no idea (not counting speculations about a Twilight-Zone-ish "911 effect" that might be turning axe-murderers into muppets) what could be causing recent declines in certain crime rates.
"The life of the tenured professor must be nice," blogs Bidinotto. "Insulated forever from marketplace competition--and the consequent need to earn a living by delivering something of actual value to anyone--the learned professor can simply sit back and pontificate about anything at all. And for some in the media, even a professor’s acknowledged ignorance can become transformed into a demonstration of his more profound, deeper 'expertise.'
"Consider the rubbish about falling crime rates that’s been published during the past few days...."
--David M. Brown, 8/26/03
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