Environmentalists are not always correct
Published: North Island Gazette, July 08, 2010
Dear editor,
Every day, the media feeds us negative news about how bad we are.
They, of course, know that logging is bad and environmentalists are good – but environmentalists all live in wooden houses.
The newspapers repeat it on extra articles, but then they buy paper made of trees.
And of course, Earth Day is good and we have to stop destroying wetlands – but the environmentalists love the Fraser Valley farms that were created by draining the Sumas slough, which was 60 miles long.
We save the wetlands elsewhere and then buy food grown in the Fraser Valley.
We protest gravel mining and then drive on gravel encased paved roads.
We are told to hate river destroying power dams - and the first thing we do when we get home is turn on the light switch.
We, of course, see ocean oil slicks in our dreams, and then protest a land-based pipe line from Alberta.
Oil companies are of course evil, but then we use a computer (made out of oil) to protest world wide. But then we text message on our oil based plastic products.
We protest exploratory mineral mining and then (like the Western Wilderness Committee) have an office in the steel Bental Tower, instead of in a teepee in the wilderness.
We spend part of every week in a shopping centre and protest big conglomerates.
We use Apple and Microsoft and then text message that we hate big business.
We protest our high taxes, even though big business pays most of taxes.
We hate the filthy rich, even though they pay 70 per cent of all taxes.
We hate the high cost of education and then give billions world wide to scientists who do a lengthy study. We are bad.
We have our environmental heros – (like Al Gore) who tells us the oceans will rise up to two meters, and then buys a $3 million mansion right on the beach.
But we feel good - because we care – so on Earth Day we light candles, even though the lighting and extinguishing of the smoking candle pollutes more than a hundred light bulbs would.
We are feel-good dimwits who want to go back to the Stone Age,
Yaba Daba Doo.
Don Warkentin
Mission, B.C.
