Environmental Fascism
If a fire started by lightning, consumes several thousand acres of trees, and fire then intrinsically induces the manifestation of new growth that is nature. To the fundamental environmentalist, this is wholly acceptable. However, if man clear-cuts that same quantity of land for resource development, it is disastrous and destructive, even if he replants the area for future use. The end result is the same, except one case is inherently good and the other bad.
Robert Bidinotto uses this type of illustration in his 6-part series entitled “Environmentalism or Individualism” published on Master Resource as he analyzes the history and advance of environmentalism from the ancient Greeks to the present day. He looks at the environmentalist movement as it relates to conventional human occupation and endeavors.
The author cites that environmentalism declares that Man is an adversary of all living things in the environment stating, “. . . Man himself is no longer praised as a conqueror of nature’s obstacles, nor even accepted as just another part of the natural world. To many, he is an interloper, an alien presence on the planet—even nature’s enemy—and his creative works are increasingly regarded as a growing menace to all that exists.
Bidinotto emphasizes that environmentalism, to the present, wins the day using a righteous, moral, and virtuous argument and to combat them, humans must persist and maintain an “individualist vision of human potential”. He views that the founding fathers in their quest for creating a “more perfect union” with “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, generated a counter to the cultural desires of environmentalism and the uncompromising environmentalist.
Environmentalism says all those quests, built under and expanding the free market system (capitalism), must be abolished and in its place more and more government regulation – upwards of fascism or communism – many of the misanthropic environmentalists are in search of a utopian and idealistic garden of Eden.
The entire series is masterfully examined and very well written. It will take the reader into the philosophical thought processes and ideology fantasies of the fanatical environmentalist. It is too bad that the extreme green will never read this account; for they may see the ignorance, insolence, and egocentricity they place upon the world.
There is no doubt why the ecologically-minded liberal progressive wing of the US Democratic party, which seems to be the majority, has turned sharply left.
Further though, there are many quasi-environmentalists – those who talk a good virtue-signaling game but do not forego any of the materialistic advantages human ingenuity gave them. This, I am confident is the majority.