“10 Reasons to Oppose the Sustainability Movement on Your Campus”
By Jonathan Bean • Thursday September 3, 2009 12:20 PM PDT • 2 Comments
Please see “Sustainability is a Waste”: here.
This relates to issues I raised with the Sustainability Scam back in November 2008. See also “Plants Have Rights Too!”
Even in hard times, gullible people are willing to give up their money and their freedom to a radical movement that is “anti-rational.” Let’s stop the waste of money on “third circle” projects (see my link above) and devote it to students, books and learning.
Tags: Environment 
I posted this link on my Facebook and got called a terrorist by my school friend. In his defense, he’s one of many who have been brainwashed regarding climate change and the environment since school and right through college.
No wonder he thinks I’m a terrorist for being sceptical of Big Government solutions to environmental problems!
Sukrit Sabhlok | Sep 4, 2009 | Reply
It is almost impossible to get students out of the new pantheistic religion with its trinity of Reduce-Reuse-Recycle.
I had an ideologically diverse group of students read an article “Recycling is Garbage” (from the NY Times Magazine!) and the author pointed out that, yes, 75,000 trees are cut down to print the NY Times Sunday edition but that companies plant trees to replace them.
The comment by all students in their writing logs focused on that one statement: they said companies would never invest in the future and plant trees. They only care about making $$$. I asked, “wouldn’t they continue to make money if they replaced their trees?” Response: Companies are greedy and only care about the short-term. They have denuded America. “Then why does the US have so many trees that we want carbon sink credit against any ‘charge’ for contributing to global warming (allegedly)?”
Response: You don’t really believe that the companies replant trees.
Me: Where do you think the next round of paper comes from for newsprint and other paper products?
Them: the companies go overseas and denude those forests.
Me: And then?
Them: Then we will run out of paper just like every other resource.
Me: Sigh.
Part of the problem is that today’s kids have never encountered nature. I’m the son of a wildlife biologist and we did all sorts of environmental work “out there.” Even if I was NOT a son of wildlife biologist, my Boy Scout troop made our money by cutting and selling Christmas Trees (funny how there were always more the next year). They ought to drive down through Alabama and see the forests just south of here. But Chicago (their home) is the world and they don’t see forests up there.
Jonathan Bean | Sep 4, 2009 | Reply