As an ancestral, paleo sort of person, safeguarding our natural environment is very important to me. The fact the glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup by Monsanto is sprayed widely on our crops, and also right in our very yards and gardens disgusts me!
his on your yard or garden, you are compromising the health of your own family, along with anyone else who walks on your poisoned grass. Just stop- your precious micro biome is at risk, for what? A “prettier” carpet-like lawn, with none of the actual beauty of the dandelions, plantain, and all the other “weeds” that make our lawns real nature. If you can’t stand that, move to Arizona, and spray paint your lovely concrete yard a bright green…
But today, my focus is fake environmentalists. People like Al Gore, many, many “celebrities” and Hollywood stars, and many others (usually on the far left), that insist on things like wind turbines and ethanol because “it’s the right thing to do!” It’s not, not even close. Both are horrible ideas, and it is very provable.
Here is a quote from the website www.wattsupwiththat.com
“Wind power harms the environment. Because of the large area of land needed to collect low-density wind energy, wind power requires more land-clearing, needs more transmission lines, kills more wildlife, lights more bushfires and uglifies more landscape per unit of electricity than conventional power. And the subsonic whine of the turbines drives neighbors batty and devalues local properties.
Like hydro-power, wind power is limited, with few suitable sites. And every wind turbine slows the wind, thus reducing the wind energy available to any downwind turbines. It is ‘renewable’ but it is not unlimited.
Wind power is justified by claims that it reduces emissions and thus reduces global warming. However, when all the steel, concrete, construction, maintenance, replacement and rehabilitation are taken into account, wind power contributes nothing to reducing emissions or changing global climate.
However wind turbines DO change the local weather. Wind is the major component of weather. Winds bring moisture to the inland, clear pollution from the cities, and change air temperatures everywhere. Wind towers rob the wind of its energy, affecting local wind speeds and changing local weather patterns.
Wind power is an expensive, intermittent and limited energy source that degrades the environment, kills birds, affects the local weather but does nothing to improve global climate.”
Wind farms kill raptors, meaning eagles, hawks, falcons and other birds of prey by the tens of thousands, mowing them down like huge lawnmowers set in their way with sharp, rotating blades. And, since wind farms produce only a tiny fraction of our electric energy, they are simply a “feel good” solution that is not a solution. In other words- fake environmentalism.
In fact, global warming, which is now being termed climate change (just to cover all bases, since warming does not appear to be happening), is one more blazing example of fake environmentalism. The idea is to get people all fired up over something, anything really, and then insist that it needs a big government solution!
This last, of course, is the real reason that the fake cause is being brought up- Big Government can grow- they can expand their bureaucracy, raise more and more taxes, and shut down more and more small businesses that can’t meet their made-up mandates and restrictions.
Ethanol is also all about fake environmentalism. Far more energy, and far more poisons like glyphosate, and endless mono cropping of GMO corn go into producing this bad, substandard fuel. Sure, it funds big, giant agri-business, and does nothing for small family farms, who have almost been run out of business thanks to the huge federal bureaucracy of the American Dept. of Agriculture, that was supposed to help them!
See how big government “help” always turns ou
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