[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Debunked

[David]

Mike Lorrey wrote:
> --- David <deimtee at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Damien Broderick wrote:
>>
>>>At 08:24 AM 2/7/2005 -0800, Mike wrote:
>>>
>>><James Watt was a controversial figure; but one thing he was not 
>>>controversial for was advocating environmental pillaging, on the
>>
>>theory 
>>
>>>that Jesus would be back any day now. That would have been quite a
>>
>>news 
>>
>>>story in the early 1980s, had it been true.>
>>>
>>Interesting, and depressing, that in the eighties it would have
>>been "quite a news story", but now it is business as usual.
> 
> 
> Hardly. You've been listening to the media again. This is the same
> media of Rathergate, Toyotagate, among any number of other fake
> stories. They simply cannot stop beating the dead horse claim that
> republicans are environmental rapists. These people are socialists who
> want more land in government control for one reason only: more
> government land means higher credit limits for welfare state borrowing.
> Saving the cute and fuzzy creatures is a side effect, one which doesn't
> actually happen. Study after study shows that private land is better
> cared for than public, less likely to be polluted and more likely to
> retain biodiversity.

I wasn't refering to the so-called environmental pillaging - being in
Oz I have no evidence either way about US environments - but about a
high official believing that the imminent rapture removes the need for
any long distance planning. That somebody so obviously delusional
could be in a position of significant power is what I meant was depressing.


-david