Who's Fueling the Green Movement?

[MarZutra]

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*WHO'S FUELING THE GREEN MOVEMENT?*

The answer is ... children. Well, maybe a few of them qualify as young adults.
But the young 20-somethings of America are becoming extremely politically active
and they have chosen their cause: the environment
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Here's an example of what I am talking about. Greenpeace has a summer campaign
called "Change It", which teaches 140 young people how to move lawmakers with
grassroots campaigns. For 140 slots, Greenpeace received over 1,000
applications. The Greenpeace student coordinator Amanda Starbuck says, "To me,
this is the strongest student movement since the 1960s ... The current
generation is very environmental-minded and [has] a real sense of empowerment."
Empowerment? More like they feel they know it all. They are at that age. They'll
grow out of it. Hopefully.

More indoctrination programs are being spearheaded on campuses across this
country. The goal is to find "climate-conscious voters" and make sure that they
push green issues on politicians. Why do they target campuses? Because this is
where you find voting-age people at the height of idealism where rational
thought processes have not yet been fully developed (if at all). What better
place to recruit for fresh, new anti-capitalist "environmentalists" than on a
college campus.

And when it comes to lobbying on Capitol Hill, young activists apparently have
many advantages over older lobbyists because politicians are more willing to
"take a chance on an unknown kid."

And these are the people that are trying to shape the future of this country –
while we're trying to teach them how to think.

Make no mistake, folks. The environmental movement is not about trees, birds and
Polar Bears. It is about destroying capitalism. Pay attention.

[RanterMaximus]

I agree.  The only green we should be worried about is the money that we get stolen from our government and how much more we are paying at the pump and for food. 

[Raulmarrio2000]

I am a memeber of Greenpeace. Here, in Argentina, they are trying to save the last native forests and protecting the whales.
Ecology is not rightist or leftist, it's just Ecology. Now in this world people tend to divide waters between leftist and rightists. I feel it in chat rooms, when I defend Ecology, some people ask me if I am a communist. When I defend the unborn, others ask me if I am a Catholic Fundamentalist. However I am neither of it.
Anyway, according to my personal religious beliefs, this eternal tendency to divide the world into two bands is just a direct consecuency of Jerusalem being divided, and Gentiles claiming it. As far as some Gentiles claim Jerusalem, we are all punished by this dividing sterotypes. That's why I put so much emphasis on Jerusalem for the Jews, even if I, myself, believe in Gerizim.

[muslimslayer0075995]

i happen to be in that age i looked into those programs, destroying capitolism isnt an intended target, they're not leftists, they are more concerned with cleaning up ozone, reducing smog, and if anything by getting people to avoid gas, we may vanquish the muslim beast

[MarZutra]

GreenPeace was taken over by Marxists and has turned it from an Envornomental Group to an ultra-Leftwing Political activist entity. 

There is a great interview with the co-founder of GreenPeace on the documentary Video: "The Great Global Warming Swindle"...  Enjoy!

[muslimslayer0075995]

green peace is, but have you ever watched such shows on discovery channel as invention nation, some are lefists but not all, you cannot gerneralize such a thing.

[MarZutra]

I've not generalized at all. I've stated "GreenPeace was taken over by Marxists" to which you've responded: "green peace is".   That is my point.  There are some very good, and truly, environmental groups out there but one must truly delve into research prior to supporting.

A good example is this molestation of "Animal Rights" or even "Human Rights"...."Environmental Rights" garbage.  If people believed in the base subject of Morality, which is inclusive of all the aforementioned, they'd recycle because it is both the moral and the environental thing to do.  They wouldn't dump oil into rivers but dispose of it properly, they'd not beat their dog or open puppy mills because it is immoral.  This applies to all of the aforementioned....Socialist misguided movements...

[muslimslayer0075995]

the organization has become corrupt 

[zachor_ve_kavod]

By and large, the environmental movement is a leftist phenomenon.  They have established a dangerous and false dichotomy, that is, you can either be for big business and therefore a polluter, or you can be ecologically minded and therefore oppose industry.  Not only is the choice a false one, but it is not in our best interest to think along these lines.  The fact is that we can neither afford to do away with industry, nor can we wontonly abandon any environmental responsibility.  I feel that offering busiesses tax breaks when they adopt new environmentally sound technology could, in the long run, be good for everyone.  Capitalism is not the enemy of environmentalism.  Capitalism means competition, and if new competitions could be stimulated in environmental technologies, we could have a win win situation.  But what is not going to happen is a reversion to pre-industrial life.  We're not going to give up our cars or our plastics or anything else we have.  Environmentalists have to wake up and accept that.

(Just a side note here, I find it astonishing that the same leftists who advocate doing away with big business and any pollutants don't seem to have a problem with Iran getting nuclear weapons.  I mean, nuclear explosions do more to harm the environment than your average steel mill.)

[RationalThought110]

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