Green Hell: Heritage Foundation Spews Anti-Environment Nonsense
Quick, Republicans – git yer guns! Environmentalists are infiltrating the government, courtrooms, boardrooms and classrooms. Insidious!
The Heritage Foundation, known to be anti-environment, put on a little presentation about a book called Green Hell, which describes a “brave new world” in which a powerful and secretive group called “Greens” are working to tear the American lifestyle out of conservatives’ greedy little hands. The author of the book, Steve Milloy, reads an excerpt and then rails on about stupid, cowardly, secretive “Greens”.
“Throughout Green Hell, you will encounter, up close and personal, the myriad encroachments and invasive oversight mechanisms of your day-to-day life that are lurking behind a shiny label that reads ‘green’.”
It’s hilarious, really. Milloy even went through the trouble of classifying us ‘Greens’ into distinct groups. I kid you not: there are the “fanatical nature worshippers”, the “do-gooders”, the “profiteers” like Al Gore, then there are the “cowards, particularly scientists and politicians who know or are concerned about what the score is with modern environmentalism but are too timid, too afraid of standing against the tide.”
“Finally,” he continues, “there are the ‘true greens’, the ones that are running the show behind the curtain. The ones that exploit the fanatics, the do-gooders, the profiteers to advance their anti-people, anti-freedom, anti-free enterprise, anti-science agenda.”
Holy crap, did that guy just say WE’RE anti-science? It gets better.
Noting that a book about Ronald Reagan states that what the former president disliked most about Communists was that they were “secretive and deceitful”, Milloy says “Fast forward 60 years, and we see Greens acting the same way. Secretive and deceitful. What’s so secretive about the greens, you ask? They act out in the open, don’t they? Yes and no. Yes, they tell you they want us to be green, but no, they don’t tell you why they want us to be green.”
“So why do they want us to go green? Isn’t it all about the environment and saving the planet? Not at all. The environment is a shield behind which they advance their social and political agenda.”
Anti-science conservatism at its most paranoid.
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