No country on the planet burns fossil fuel (coal) more efficiently and with greater environmental safeguards than the USA

1. Environmental
Overkillhttp://www.quora.com/Diana-
Gibbs/crown-capital-management
http://crowncapitalmngt.com/

2. I haven't supported so-called
"environmental groups" for years;
that's because they're
moremental than environ. They
conveniently ignore the fact that
poverty is the root cause of
environmental damage. They rant
about the damage caused over a
hundred years ago in America, yet
believe that we should all be forced
to return to the sort of life that
precipitated such damage. That's
mental, as in nuts.

3. Because only when a people become
wealthy do they have the luxury of
caring about the environment - and the
means to remediate some of the
damage of the past. And that is why, to
the extent that conservatives want
everyone to have the opportunity to
succeed, they are the true
environmentalists. It's why Obama's
War on Coal, and his unrelenting
efforts to drive up energy costs, are
doomed to failure. And it's why,
contrary to his Grand Vision, he will
never Save The Planet™ by targeting
Americans for increased poverty.

4. Over at Watts Up With That, there's
a piece by Willis Eschenbach that
describes in very personal terms
some of the factors contributing to
ecosystem destruction. And here,
too, it's demonstrated that the
defining characteristic of said
destruction is poverty.

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6. The above is an extract from his post,
starkly demonstrating the divide.
Haiti and the DR, after all, share
the same island; the average
income for residents of the DR,
however, is roughly ten times that
of the average Haitian. Clearly,
"environmental consciousness" is
inversely correlated with poverty.

7. Yet here in America, supposed
"environmentalists" such as Sierra
Club routinely litigate against
anything and everything that might
involve profit or job creation. Any
time a tree is to be cut, there they
are - or rather, there their lawyers
are. This despite the fact that there
are more trees in the continental
USA than grew here two hundred
years ago.

8. No country on the planet burns fossil
fuel (coal) more efficiently and with
greater environmental safeguards
than the USA - yet Obama and his
EPA want to destroy an inexpensive
and plentiful source of energy in
order to Save The Planet™. They
want curbs on natural gas, as well.
Their goal is to drive energy costs up
so that "green sources" (wind and
solar) can become competitive - and
it's a goal that can never be attained
no matter how much money they
borrow in order to fund them.

9. Thanks to their efforts, wind turbines kill
thousands of endangered birds and tens
of thousands of pollinating and
insectivorous bats each year. The wind
companies get a pass, to go along with
their subsidies. But should an eagle be
injured at a drill site, the penalties can
run into the tens of millions of dollars.
And yet, oil, natural gas, and coal still
must be used - because no matter how
much money is thrown at the Solyndras
and the Vestas of the world, they cannot
produce, even at great environmental
cost, reliable and stable energy supplies.

10. These policies are hypocritical at best, and evil
at worst.
They are designed to destroy economies and to
force individuals back into grinding poverty -
and ideally, government dependence.
And organizations such as Sierra Club,
Audubon Society, Natural Resources
Defense Council, and a host of others are
complicit in efforts to achieve these goals.
The environment really doesn't matter to
them, as their acceptance of the massive
death tolls among birds and mammals due to
"green&sustainable energy" clearly and
unambiguously demonstrates.