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February 2005
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ANZA BORREGO Since it rained so much and there still was running water in the canyons a few days before the run, the park Rangers suggested not doing the run, but don’t be too upset, we’ve rescheduled it to April 16th instead. We may even get some wildflowers then.
THESE BIGOTS ARE GREEN FIRST ... they burned the gasoline station, so that you had to drive for miles out of your way to get gas. Then they destroyed a parking lot. Now they want to destroy a dam and a reservoir that supplies more that 2 million people with water. No, these are not al-Qaeda terrorists, these are our own home-grown fanatics and the places mentioned are all in Yosemite National Park! They call themselves environmentalists but a more accurate term would be green bigots. What makes someone a bigot is that he wants to deny other people the same rights he has. That is the hallmark of the environmental zealot. Green bigots operate internationally, just like the more famous fanatics. They are trying to stop a hydroelectric dam from being built in Uganda and they already succeeded in getting "nature preserves" created in various parts of Africa, which is to say, vast amounts of land where Africans are forbidden to hunt for food because the green bigots prefer keeping the land "natural." African economist James Skikwati of Kenya put the case against affluent Western environmental extremists very plainly when he said "wealthy countries want the Earth be green, the underdeveloped want the Earth fed." He asked "What gives developed nations the right to make choices for the poor?" A hydroelectric dam in Uganda would bring electricity to millions of Africans, but it would also annoy the delicate sensibilities of environmentalists at Berkley who like waterfalls. By and large, the green bigots use politics, nuisance lawsuits, and physical obstruction, rather than violence, but some of them do not hesitate to booby-trap trees, threatening those who cut them down with injury or death, and they use the media to spin their party line. A recent newspaper story headlined Renaissance at Yosemite National Park was created at the urging of environmental groups. "The fight to get people out of cars and onto bikes and buses has been won after years of bitter wrangling," the story says. If people wanted to get out of their cars and onto bikes and busses, they could have don this at any time and without any wrangling! We are talking about green bigots forcing millions of visitors to Yosemite to do what the green bigots want, rather than what the visitors themselves want. Such ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism rather than the petty tyranny it is. Making it a hassle to drive a car in Yosemite means letting the green bigots regiment visitors to buses. Instead of going where you want to go, when you want to go there, you will go where the park bureaucracy wants to take you. When you are in your own car, you can stop and get out to walk around when you see something you like, or just go to the bathroom when you need to. When you are regimented in buses, you can go only when and where the bus schedule permits. For young children and the elderly especially, this can turn what could be an enjoyable experience into needless stress. The last thing you expect to learn from most media accounts of the activities of green bigots is an account of the other people’s objections to their power grab, instead, there is a whole vocabulary of misleading words used to paper over and sugarcoat the plain fact that green bigots feel entitled to impose their "vision" at the cost of other people’s rights, thus it is called a "renaissance" to lose your rights to choose what you want to do in Yosemite (or anywhere else). There is never a lack of excuses when people want to boss other people around. There are lots of vague and lofty words about a "fragile" or "sensitive" environment, but ask the green bigots for concrete criteria by which we can determine whether a particular environment is, or is not "fragile" or "sensitive" and you are not likely to get any. The story about the "renaissance" in Yosemite speaks of the new changes as having "restored" the Merced River. I have watched the Merced River flowing and cascading through Yosemite for more than 20 years without seeing anything that needed to be "restored." Maybe Honesty needs to be restored!
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