Category Archives: Environmentalism & Animal Rights

Why We In The West Care So For Animals (Or Should)

Argument, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Ethics, Justice, Law, Morality, Reason, The West

Writes HENRY STEPHENSON, of O’Fallon, Illinois:

… Laws protecting animals are perfectly justifiable, not because [animals] have rights, but because we value their welfare and are repulsed by acts of cruelty against them. Upholding such laws does not require the cascade of nonsense that would ensue from pretending that animals have moral or legal standing.

HENRY STEPHENSON,
O’Fallon, Illinois

I would put it thus:

We care for animals and codify that care in law, not because animals have human rights, but because of our own humanity.

The Economist (Letters, Jan 12th 2019)

Or, as Schopenhauer mused:

The Unintended, Destructive Consequences Of Renewables

Energy, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Technology

The Left discovers what rightist conservationists (at least this one) have known for so long. I wrote about how “Commies Cars” (electric cars) trash the environment as far back as … 2002:

Perhaps the biggest obfuscation in the gimmick-car racket—which President Bush has fallen for, if to judge from his energy plan—has to do with the source of the energy. Whether a vehicle is propelled by hydrogen-powered fuel cells or electricity, both electricity and hydrogen don’t magically materialize in the vehicle. They must first be generated. Be it coal, natural gas, nuclear or a hydroelectric dam, these cars are only as clean as the original source of energy that generated the vim that powers them.

(“Commie Cars.”)

And from my: “NIMBYs: Not-In-My-Backyard Environmentalists”:

Mining for rare earth metals is not the cleanest undertaking. Hybrid hypocrites prefer by far that it be done by the poor villagers of the Baiyunkuang District of Darhan Muminggan in Inner Mongolia, northern China. There lie the largest deposits of rare earth metals. The Prius is packed with the stuff.

Liberals don’t grasp that the more expensive it is to bring a source of energy to market the greater the pollution it generates.

Now Tucker is popularizing Michael Shellenberger’s wisdom on the problems with renewables:

… solar and wind farms require huge amounts of land. That, along with the fact that solar and wind farms require long new transmissions lines, and are opposed by local communities and conservationists trying to preserve wildlife, particularly birds.

Another challenge was the intermittent nature of solar and wind energies. When the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing, you have to quickly be able to ramp up another source of energy. …

… What kills big, threatened, and endangered birds—birds that could go extinct—like hawks, eagles, owls, and condors, are wind turbines.

In fact, wind turbines are the most serious new threat to important bird species to emerge in decades. The rapidly spinning turbines act like an apex predator which big birds never evolved to deal with.

Solar farms have similarly large ecological impacts. Building a solar farm is a lot like building any other kind of farm. You have to clear the whole area of wildlife.

In order to build one of the biggest solar farms in California the developers hired biologists to pull threatened desert tortoises from their burrows, put them on the back of pickup trucks, transport them, and cage them in pens where many ended up dying. …

… it gradually dawned on me that there was no amount of technological innovation that could solve the fundamental problem with renewables.

You can make solar panels cheaper and wind turbines bigger, but you can’t make the sun shine more regularly or the wind blow more reliably. I came to understand the environmental implications of the physics of energy. In order to produce significant amounts of electricity from weak energy flows, you just have spread them over enormous areas. In other words, the trouble with renewables isn’t fundamentally technical—it’s natural.

Dealing with energy sources that are inherently unreliable, and require large amounts of land, comes at a high economic cost.

“Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet,” written by Michael Shellenberger.

UPDATED (2/22): Environmentalists Betray The Cause: How Mass Immigration Affects The Land & The Critters

Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Ethics, IMMIGRATION

Environmentalists have become traitors to a cause we should all care about: our environment, the resources it provides and the creatures and critters who depend on these for survival. They used to care. No more.

Environmental groups, in particular, “the Center for Biological Diversity, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Defenders of Wildlife,” claim, in multiple lawsuits, that “construction operations [of The Border Wall] would harm plants, rare wildlife habitats, threatened coastal birds like the snowy plover and California gnatcatcher, and other species such as fairy shrimp and the Quino checkerspot butterfly.”

To the contrary, migrants pouring over the borders into the habitats these idiots claim to care about are doing great damage. But the situation is far more dire.

“Destruction of this country’s social fabric has never bothered environmentalists. But what of its environmental resources? At the current rate of immigration, 40 percent of America’s lakes and streams are no longer fishable or swimmable. What will be their fate in the middle of the century?”

In California, a school will have to be built every day in perpetuity to keep up with the unremitting influx. Urban sprawl, traffic congestion, overcrowding, pollution, and rural land loss—there isn’t a community in the US that’ll escape the social and environmental despoliation witnessed in California and Florida.

READ ON: “The Gore Gospel: Act Globally; Trash Locally”

AND:

In 2004, Time magazine described in detail how illegal aliens rushing the southern border commit property crimes and despoil the environment:
When the crowds cross the ranches along and near the border, they discard backpacks, empty Gatorade and water bottles and soiled clothes. They turn the land into a vast latrine, leaving behind revolting mounds of personal refuse and enough discarded plastic bags to stock a Wal-Mart. Night after night, they cut fences intended to hold in cattle and horses. Cows that eat the bags must often be killed because the plastic becomes lodged between the first and second stomachs. The immigrants steal vehicles and saddles. They poison dogs to quiet them. The illegal traffic is so heavy that some ranchers, because of the disruptions and noise, get very little sleep at night.

Yes, Time Magazine has also betrayed the countryside and the critters.

MORE in “That Spot Of Bother On The Border.”

UPDATED (2/22): Arizona Border Trash: Destruction of land and critters b/c of mass migration. Any mention of that in @AOC’s New Green Deal? By anyone on the Left?

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POTUS Trump Neglects Super Stupid Chris Cuomo And Owes Dogs An Apology

Donald Trump, Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Etiquette, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Media

As time goes by, my appreciation for President Trump’s noble mission and effortless ability TO DRIVE LEFTIST POND SCUM STARK RAVING BONKERS only increases. But on the matter of Omarosa Manigault Newman, Trump does owe an apology …

… To the dog community for comparing dogs to Omarosa. Animals have feelings, too.

Trump, moreover, should stop discriminating against CNN’s Chris Cuomo and call him names, just as he does Don Lemon. Cuomo gives fellow anchor Mr. Lemon a run for his money. The first is way dumber and sanctimonious than the second. And when the two get together in the segue between their shows, it’s a storm of stupidity and sanctimony.

For his stupid credentials, watch (or read) Cuomo:

My bad: Trump did trash Cuomo, but that was in 2017.