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Americans are getting fed up.
Fed up with lockdowns, polarized politics and over-reach by government and environmental activists. In his new book, “Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All” environmentalist Michael Shellengerger offers interesting insights into the never-ending panic attacks of the environmental movement.
As the Wall Street Journal put it, Shellenberger “chronicles environmental progress around the world and crisply debunks myth after gloomy myth … No, whales were not saved by Greenpeace but rather by the capitalist entrepreneurs who discovered cheaper substitutes for whale oil … No, climate change has not caused an increase in the frequency or intensity of floods, droughts, hurricanes and tornadoes.”
The High Desert has its own environmental fairy tales including the mythological Mojave ground squirrel, the scientifically unsubstantiated hypothesis that the western Joshua tree is dying out due to climate change. (Even advocates can’t produce scientific data to back up their theory.)
Understand, the next time when you’re driving on Interstate 15 north of Baker, the trees on the west are the species western Joshua tree, and the trees on the other side are eastern Joshua tree. (I guess the trees in the center median must be “Central Joshua trees.)
We all need to remember that fringe environmental groups take advantage the public’s desire to protect the earth and to push for extreme regulations that ultimately harm the public. Environmental groups are behind policies against responsible forest management. Those policies are largely to blame for the alarming decline in forest health and the resulting wildfires and millions of square miles of lost forest and more tragically, the loss of hundreds of lives.
The latest enviro claim that the western yellow-billed cuckoo has allegedly been detected along the Mojave River. Although the only evidence to date is not a local photograph or video of the yellow-billed cuckoo but an audio recording, purportedly of the bird. Don’t be surprised if environmentalists try to use their cuckoo recording to convince the state to lock down more land to save cuckoo habitat.
San Bernardino County is 20,053 square miles, however only 5 percent of the land area is dedicated to housing, industrial, utilities, agriculture, transportation and parks. I urge the community to realize that environmental extremism is shutting down more and more of our desert. When the extremists come to town, I encourage every hotel, restaurant and every other employer to decline their business. Until we start standing up, the cuckoos will prevail.
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