by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
In a so-called survey, also called a quiz, on a Green website the other day may claims were made that do not, in fact, hold up against some of the new evidence that is emerging but which some people see to wish to suppress by all means possible.
On of the “claims” in that survey is that the Antarctic is heating up all over which is, in fact, not the truth. About two-thirds of the Antarctic is getting colder year by year, and this has been going on for a while now. Why are people then misled in that this factor is not mentioned.
While it may be the case that Antarctica has gotten warmer from the 1950's onwards there is a very large chunk of that continent that is getting colder now, according to scientists, and that already for a number of years.
An inconvenient truth, methinks.
It is also claimed that vegetarians can get all of their needed protein from their vegetarian diet. This may be so in regards to protein but they – vegetarians – are, in the majority, so medical practitioners state, lack in the right minerals and vitamins. Some vitamins can only be gotten from meat and other animal products and are not available in a totally vegetarian diet. Humans are, like our cousins, the chimps and such, omnivores and while our diet should include much more vegetable content, in a way it used to be around the time of WWII, we are not herbivores.
In addition to this I wonder what those that advocate a totally vegetarian or even vegan diet “for the good of all those animals” think would happen to all those animals that are raised for food presently should the entire world become vegetarian tomorrow.
Unlike what some believe that someone would be paid to care for all of them and give them a great life the truth is that all those animals would be killed and destroyed. Their only reason for the very existence is the fact that they are raised for meat and as soon as they no longer have a use that would be it; period.
Those that claim otherwise, I am afraid, not only do not live on this planet; they do not even live in this universe.
The claim was also made that (licensed) professional hunters have no benefit as to wildlife conservation and this is where one has to really disagree for in today's world, without this professional hunter, many sick animals and such like would b e allowed to continue to live, a miserable existence often.
The proper professional hunter is a conservationist of the highest order as the animals are his livelihood, so to speak, and he culls out the sick, the malformed, and such like, in order to guarantee the survival of the animals as a strong line. The professional hunter, nowadays, performs the task – and hunters have been around since man, basically – of the predatory animals of the past that no longer are about and that, for our own safety, best remain where they are.
The problem is that many, far too many people in the environmental, the green, movement are often ignorant to those facts and just blabber the stuff that others, equally uneducated of the fact, have told them.
The only points where I do not have an issue with is the fact about turning of the computer between sessions as a saver of money, the PC and the environment and that in many cases old technology beats new, such as cast iron cookware, for instance.
The agenda definitely is visible and obvious now when it comes to some groups in the green movement and to that end they will twist theories into supposedly irrefutable facts – and you must not question any such statements or you will be considered mentally ill – totally confusing and misleading the general public.
This is the fate that has befallen Professor David Bellamy, for instance, and will befall many more that may dare to disagree with the “accepted” line. Professor Bellamy is, probably, one of the most well-known biologists in the world and television presenters.
Similar fates have befallen other academics before when they challenged theories in other fields and we can see this entrenchment, calling everyone who disagrees all the names under the sun, also in the “field” of “Romani-Gypsy Studies”.
The green movement does itself a very great disservice by permitting some of the falsehoods to be perpetuated and theories to be presented as one hundred and ten percent proven facts, which they so often are not.
All of us need to have an open mind and we need to learn from then lessons and events of the past and, in order to do justice to the Planet, our Mother, we must slow down somewhat – in fact a great deal – and live life in a different lane.
We must concentrate on cleaning up our environment, local and global. Deal differently with things and throw away less. Concentrating alone on the carbon dioxide issue and Global Warming/Climate Change and the likes of “carbon capture” and “carbon storage” is not going to do much. That is not going to deal with the other, probably much more pressing issues, such as where do we park the waste generated as landfills are full and leaking methane like no one's business.
The Hippies in the 1960s already tried to wake up the world as to the environmental catastrophe possibilities if we were not going to stop polluting the air, the water and the soil, and we just went right ahead.
The cleanup is needed now and more than urgently. Carbon can wait.
While it may be true that the world's climate is changing and Mother Earth is throwing a wobbly the way I see it there is precious little that we can do about to change that. There is, however, a great deal we can do to be kinder to our Earth, such as reducing our impact as far as pollution and such is concerned.
So, let's stop waffling and standing about and let's clean up this Planet, literally. Those issues are much more important than anything else.
© 2009
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Misleading the public on green issues
