There's a world of difference between a conservationist and an environmentalist, Bacle. I've tried to explain this to you repeatedly.
The right wing environmental position is, generally speaking, conservationist in nature. Show us a specific problem with a measurable, quantifiable solution, and we are perfectly willing to undertake it. We are quite glad to fund cleaning up polluted rivers and lakes, installing pollution control devices on engines and such.
But then environmentalists try to play on that. They try to create 'crisis' that only they can actually see, but which they insist are real, with solutions that, at the bottom, consist of 'give us your money and all of the power!' When none of their predictions come even close to happening, they don't admit to being wrong, they simply insist that we are too stupid to understand the predictions in the first place and move the goalposts and start yelling that unless we immediately agree with them we are the stupidest stupids to ever stupid and we're ALL GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU DO WHAT WE SAY IMMEDIATELY AND SHUT UP WITH YOUR STUPID QUESTIONS. And, of course, their solution is for us to give them all of our money and all of the power and let them have total control, but trust them, they'll solve the problem and not, ya know, spend all of the money on conferences at exotic tropical vacation resorts, buying private jets for themselves and their friends, and living the life of Reilly.
The right wing environmental position is, generally speaking, conservationist in nature. Show us a specific problem with a measurable, quantifiable solution, and we are perfectly willing to undertake it. We are quite glad to fund cleaning up polluted rivers and lakes, installing pollution control devices on engines and such.
But then environmentalists try to play on that. They try to create 'crisis' that only they can actually see, but which they insist are real, with solutions that, at the bottom, consist of 'give us your money and all of the power!' When none of their predictions come even close to happening, they don't admit to being wrong, they simply insist that we are too stupid to understand the predictions in the first place and move the goalposts and start yelling that unless we immediately agree with them we are the stupidest stupids to ever stupid and we're ALL GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU DO WHAT WE SAY IMMEDIATELY AND SHUT UP WITH YOUR STUPID QUESTIONS. And, of course, their solution is for us to give them all of our money and all of the power and let them have total control, but trust them, they'll solve the problem and not, ya know, spend all of the money on conferences at exotic tropical vacation resorts, buying private jets for themselves and their friends, and living the life of Reilly.