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ENVIRONMENTALISM QUESTION – WRONG ASSUMPTIONS How can a conspiracy theorist who is anti-big business be anti-environmentalism? Relaxing environmental controls helps big business and hurts the common people, the ones who are being poisoned. One of the things the big business cartels are working toward is bribing the government to look the other way while they pollute like crazy. They are in favor of less government in the form of regulatory bureaus against them and their pollution problems. Companies like the oil industry and Monsanto are getting “their” people in the important positions in the EPA, Department of the Interior, USDA, etc. specifically to get them to relax pollution standards on things such as greenhouse gases. That and getting the budgets to cut funding so the EPA, etc... are too short-staffed to be effective. This is a slightly expanded version of my reply: The question you ask is certainly provocative: “How can a conspiracy theorist who is anti-big business be anti-environmentalism?” There ate three active words here that need to be addressed separately. First, although those who disagree with my analysis of history are quick to label me as a conspiracy theorist, I do not consider myself to be in that category. If you have followed my writing, you know that my views are based on and supported by provable facts, not theories, and I am careful to make sure that everything I publish about past and recent history is well documented. Second, I am not anti-big business. The fact that I am often critical of the policies of large corporations has nothing to do with their size or that they are business ventures. It is based on the ethics and goals of their management. There are plenty of small businesses that are equally repulsive to me for the same reason, and non-profit, tax-exempt organizations often fit that mold also. Third, I am not ant-environmentalism, assuming your definition of that word includes a concern for nature and the health quality of the environment. I don't think you will find anyone who is more dedicated to these than I. So, on all three words, your question misses the mark in describing my point of view. Nevertheless, you touch upon several issues that I would like to address. I regret that I do not have the amount of time to devote to your question that it deserves. Actually, I am in the middle of writing an essay on this topic and hope to have it finished soon. However, the short answer to your question is that there are two kinds of environmentalists. One is a person who loves nature, is concerned over the deterioration of the quality of life on this planet, and who believes that the solution to is the expansion of government and the suppression of personal liberty. The other is a person who loves nature, is concerned over the deterioration of the quality of life on this planet, who believes that those who dream of world power are using the legitimate concerns of the public to stampede them into global totalitarianism, and who believes that the most endangered species is the free human being. I am in the second category. My reasons are numerous and sound, and they will be the topic of my forthcoming essay entitled The Most Endangered Species. I hope you are sufficiently interested in this topic to want to read it. You are already on to one of the most revealing aspects of this study. The fact that corporate interests dominate government agencies that regulate them is not new. This has been going on for decades. Furthermore, multinational corporations and their cartels have always been the largest source of funding for the environmental movement. Without corporate funding and grants from tax-exempt foundations that the corporations control, the environmental movement as we know it wouldn't even exist. Their game plan is brilliant: Use environmentalism as an excuse for expanding government power in all aspects of life; strengthen their already substantial control over every level of government; make sure that they themselves are exempt from any unmanageable restrictions on their ability to operate at a profit; use those same restrictions to destroy competition from any business venture outside the cartel; and create a world-wide corporate state, based on the model of collectivism, which they fondly describe as The New World Order. Once you understand this game plan, the thrust for global power under the banner of environmentalism becomes painfully clear. It’s essentially the same tactic used on all fronts. Whether it is the war on pollution, terrorism, crime, drugs, pornography, or any other evil, those leading the war and banging the drums don’t give a hoot about any of them. Their primary concern is to whip up public support for the expansion of their power and funding under the pretense of combating evil. Unfortunately, with the corporate mass media solidly in their camp, it is difficult for the average person to see through this ploy and escape the trap. Thanks for writing, and special thanks for being sensitive to issues relating to quality of life on this planet, including freedom.
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