The Left-Wing Canon of Doom

I've posted many screeds against the progressive, anti-western, radical left-wing nutjob, environmentalist radical movements in the past... and frankly I'm exhausted. But the word must continue to get out. Today I stumbled across the review of a book published in 2002 that systematically dismantles most of the key tenants of the environmentalist movement. Reason Magazine Review

Here is a key section..

The environmental canon is built on doom. In 1962 Rachel Carson's Silent Spring predicted that modern synthetic chemicals, especially pesticides, would cause epidemics of cancer and kill off massive quantities of wildlife. Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich's infamous The Population Bomb confidently asserted in 1968 that "the battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines -- hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now." The Limits to Growth, a Club of Rome report published in 1972, coupled the dogma that natural resources were running out with concerns about growing population and rising pollution.

I couldn't have said it better myself.. it seems to me just about all of the radical movements with their genesis in the late 60's and early 70's are based at least in part on faulty pseudo-science, anti-western screeds and a radical self loathing by members of the tenured left-wing intelligentsia like Susan Sontag. I didn't post anything on death of Susan Sontag a few years ago but she's a shining example of the nitwits behind the post-modern environmentalist, radical progressive, anti-market, anti-human, "multicultural" agenda.. if your father or mother believed it.. it's crap.. these boomer elites are like so many bratty children biting the hand that fed and nurtured them, (western civilization) and reveling in their supposed moral superiority. The firebrand Ann Coulter rightly defines this as liberal religion.. and it really it is their religion... J.K. Chesterton once said, quite aptly, that if you don't believe in something, you'll believe in anything.

Ingrid Newkirk the co-founder and President PETA once stated, to the fawning praise and adulation of the far out eco-freak crowd:

"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." umm.. I'm sorry you hate yourself and your species.. either I was created with dominion, as scripture says, or I evolved over billions of years to be the dominate species and I'm not giving it up!!! Why should I.

If you can stand to read it.. here is a really obnoxious article equating animal slaughter with the Holocaust.. http://www.cala-online.org/Journal/Issue3/A_Tale_of_2_Holocausts.htm written by another, tenured left-wing nut job and fellow traveller Karen Davies. Following is her monograph:

Karen Davis, PhD. is the founder and President of United Poultry Concerns (www.upc-online.org), a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. She is the author of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry; A Home for Henny; More Than a Meal: The Turkey in History, Myth, Ritual, and Reality; and Instead of Chicken, Instead of Turkey: A Poultryless Poultry Potpourri (a cookbook). Karen is currently writing a book titled The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities"

Stick a fork in me, I'm done!

[UPDATE]
I decided to quote more of the Economist article because it very pointedly defuses so much of the eco-religios fervor running amok today.

...ideological environmentalists have simple-mindedly applied concepts from zoology and biology to human societies to create a kind of theory of political ecology. But this theory has failed. Not one of its major predictions has come true: There have been no global famines, no cancer epidemics, no massive resource depletion. The ideologues have been proven wrong because they fail to understand that the economic processes in which human beings engage are radically different from the ecological processes that govern other creatures. Human beings not only consume resources but make new resources with their fertile minds. People do not simply use up resources the way a herd of zebra would; they create new recipes to use resources in ever more effective ways. Coal, tin, fresh water, forests, and so forth may all be limited, but the ideas for extending and improving their uses are not.

But at the moment of its political ascendancy, it is environmentalism, not modern civilization, that is tottering. As more critics -- demographers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, climatologists, economists, and, yes, statisticians -- point ever more insistently at the yawning gap between the doomsayers' claims and scientific and economic reality, the ideologues are becoming ever more frantic to deny the growing contradictions.

Their variety of environmentalism is merely the latest totalizing ideology to arise in the West over the past two centuries. Like communism before it, it wants to claim the mantle of objective science to justify its political programs, because in the post-Enlightenment world science is the final arbiter of what is true. But as all totalists eventually discover, an ideologys failure to correspond to reality is ultimately fatal.

Touche'