They want windmills for energy, what they don’t want is windmills near Cape Cod even when the thousands of yachts, jet skis and motor boats spill thousands of gallons of oil a year into the Cape.

Environmental groups have drifted into self-serving cliques with narrow visions and very rigid ideology. At the same time that businesses are embracing public participation and inclusiveness, many environmentalists are showing signs of elitism, left-wingism. The once politically removed, science-based vision of environmentalism has been largely replaced with extremist rhetoric. Science and logic have been abandoned and the movement is often used to promote other causes such as class struggle and anti-corporatism. The public is left trying to figure out what is reasonable and what is not. Environmentalism in the mainstream is largely anti-human. The human species is viewed as a “cancer” on the face of the earth. The extremists perpetuate belief that human activity is negative whereas the rest of nature is good. Anti-technology and anti-science. Eco-extremists dream of returning to some kind of technologically primitive society. Horse-logging is the only kind of forestry they can fully support. No cars only buggies, no planes only trains. Agriculture is systematically small and all large machines are seen as inherently destructive and “unnatural”. Apparently blogging is still acceptable even though computers, PDAs and iPads and the massive data centers that support them are quite enormous and use vast amounts of energy. These weirdos that personify simpler times and worship a nostalgia of living like a peasant (while ignoring historical events such as plagues, famines, oppressive aristocracies and poor farm production and immense unemployment). It’s an anti-trade movement. Eco-extremists are not only opposed to “free trade” but to international trade in general. This is based on the belief that each “bioregion” should be self-sufficient in all its material needs even though container ships are a very efficient means of moving goods. Anti-free enterprise. Despite the fact that communism and state socialism has been a miserable failure throughout much of the world. Anyone engaging in private business, particularly if they are sucessful, is characterized as greedy and lacking in morality even though markets are the best way to enhance wealth and improved personal well being.

They said that 50,000 species were now becoming extinct each year due to human activity. But of most significance to the subject of forests, WWF claimed that the main cause of species extinction was “commercial logging”, that is, the forest industry. They provided absolutely no evidence for this so-called fact about logging and the media asked no hard questions. Then the newspapers around the world proclaimed the forest industry to be the main destroyer of species. t is widely known that human activity has been responsible for the extinction of many species down through history. These extinctions have been caused by hunting, the conversion of forest and grassland to farming and human settlement, and the introduction of exotic diseases and predators. Today, the main cause of species extinction is deforestation, over 90% of which is caused by agriculture and urban development in poorer regions which can be mitigated by improving trade conditions in those nations.