Earth Day: A Day Worth Celebrating? (part 5/5)

http://aynrand.org/EarthDay40 -- Living up to "green" ideals vs. living? Environmentalism is a philosophy of guilt and sacrifice, argue Keith Lockitch and Onkar Ghate; its basic ideal is inhuman and corrupt.

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[TheRosa63]

they took the bible away via discrediting it, christendoms clergy hypocrisy turns people away from Jehovah. but man needs to worship something, needs direction of moral values, so enviromental movement is a replacement so the elites can control you for their benefit not yours, just like priests in past murdered people who had a bible they could read they used the bible for enslaving others, so now they are guilting people into obedience. to get forgiveness of living.

[ObjectivistAesthetic]

Excellent series.

[porscheghcje]

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[AlexanderLee1]

@justintempler (continued) I think that in the vast majority of cases, environmentalists are just as described in these videos, and that the term is now properly defined as one who values the environment above all else.

[AlexanderLee1]

@justintempler Thanks for the info. I read part of the first Wikipedia article, and it looks perfectly logical. I agree that the market can do a better job of maintaining a good environment and that individuals can keep undeveloped land.

However, most of the environmentalists I have met and read about see human life as having no value. It is clear that you thus do not fit my definition of an environmentalist. The term might have been perverted by those who are actually anti-humanists.

[justintempler]

@AlexanderLee1 On an Ayn Rand video I take it you want something that is compatible with Objectivism. I'm not going to try to explain in 500 characters but I'll point you in the right direction.

Start with the Wikipedia pages:

Free-market environmentalism

Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well

Free-Market Environmentalism Reading List (about 50 books)

tinyurl . c o m / y5s2vn5

[AlexanderLee1]

@justintempler Please describe real life environmentalism as you see it, and explain the fundamental values behind the movement.

[justintempler]

You should be familiar with that strategy people do it to objectivism all the time. They equate self interest with greed, they say you don't care about anyone but yourself, and then label objectivisn evil.

You see the strawman when it is used against you

but you are blind to it when you do it to someone else.

[justintempler]

@AlexanderLee1 "This issue has absolutely nothing to do with environmentalism....environmen­talists fundamentally see human life as evil and do not care if humans are harmed"

Step 1. Dismiss real life enviornmetalism

Step 2. Replace it with your own straw man version

Step 3 Do battle with it and claim moral high ground.

[AlexanderLee1]

@justintempler What you are talking about is an entirely separate issue. In a free market society, yes, one could be sued successfully for harming other people with pollution. Therefore, most people would avoid creating human-harming pollution.

This issue has absolutely nothing to do with environmentalism, however. As it was explained in these videos, environmentalists fundamentally see human life as evil and do not care if humans are harmed. They view the environment as an end in itself.