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Powershift: The Birth of Environmental Justice

"It's like, it's not polar bears anymore, it's, like, people."

By: Tabitha Hale (Diary)  |  April 20th, 2011 at 05:25 PM  | 

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The Powershift conference came to DC last weekend. Thousands of students were bussed in to discuss the perils of our climate situation – because apparently, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi are “counting on them” to save the world… by taking off their pants and leaving earth to colonize other planets?

It’s funny at first, until you realize that there were 10,000 American youth listening to this and applauding it. They are blurring the lines between environmental and social “justice.” Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, made the environmental conversation a modern day Civil Rights speech, addressing the imbalances between the upper and lower class in America. For example, via Eyeblast (definitely click to watch the video):

“Environmental justice at its root is a recogniction that there is unfinished business from the last 40 years and much of that unfinished business is concentrated in low income and minority neighborhoods.”

For the left,  this is about wrapping environmental rights into civil rights. Jackson goes on to say “If their air is not clean, then my air is not clean. If they can’t drink their water, you can’t drink your water either.” For them, this isn’t about science. It isn’t about the environment. It’s about equalization and “justice” and it’s entirely dishonest. After all, their job is much easier when they can put everything in a neat little box, demonize the wealthy, and propose solutions that invariably involve taking things from someone to give to someone else.

Cloaking redistribution in green and “justice” is disingenuous at best, evil and manipulative at worst. They’re losing ground on the scientific front and tapping in to what they know.

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  • msctex

    . . .that comes from doing something which really helps the world, without all the burden and ponderous thinking that comes from actually being sure what one is doing matters, or is in any way actually efficacious. That, people take as an article of faith.

    It is a formula sure to attract countless individuals with their hearts essentially in the right place, and their brains stuck in neutral. In other words, the product of our educational system for 40 or 50 years now.

    • msctex

      “They Offer People.” that is . .

  • http://vladenblog.tumblr.com Steve Maley

    This generation has been force-fed Captain Planet and worse propaganda since they were in their cribs. The fact that they are voting age now is distressing.

    Our side has two things going for it. One: they have short attention spans. Two: they are committed to weed above all else, even Mother Gaia.

    On second thought, maybe that’s all the same thing.

    • msctex

      I’m not sure I appreciate being reminded.

  • Common_Cents

    No not the cause, but the tactics.

    We are getting whipped in strategery by the left!

    Why oh why we ignore this, I have no clue.

    We need an organized effort to reach out to the youth of America as an ounce of prevention(educating them early) is sure much easier and cheaper than a pound of cure(reprogramming them is costly and takes years if not decades, if not ever)

    These creeps on the left are appealing to the impressionable youth with devious intent.

    We need to tailor our message to have EMOTIONAL appeal to youth/independents. Emotional appeal dominantly drives that demographic.

    Our party message is always: “take your bad tasting medicine, its good for you.”

    That is crap. We need to be selling the BENEFITS of conservative mindset with an emotional appeal. We absolutely fail there.

    One more cliche, “If you aren’t liberal in your youth you have no heart, if you aren’t conservative in your adult hood, you have no brain.”

    We totally ignore this time tested concept in selling our package. We need to make emotional appeals backed up by all the facts we as conservative adults learn from years of real world experience.

    • loveitorleaveit

      My 18 year old son and his friends would laugh at these fools. All young people are not this weak and stupid.

      • Common_Cents

        There are always exceptions like your son and friends, but youth are more impressionable as a group, lacking the real life experience.

        The point is, we are not using the same tactics for the conservative appeal to this group.

  • Next93

    Just saw “Atlas Shrugged Part 1″ the other day, and there were several scenes that I’d fogotten that made me sit up and say “wow! – I’ve seen that happen!”.

    The one that I’m thinking of right now, Hank Reardon is trying to force the representative from the State Science Institute to admit that the science is on his (Reardon’s) side. The response is essentially, “it doesn’t matter – if you’re wrong, your position is a threat to public safety, and if you’re right it’s a threat to the social order”.

    That’s where we are with AGW. The science just doesn’t matter – how could it when most of these kids haven’t seen the inside of a science or math book since junior high? I could talk for a half hour about what’s wrong with the AGW hypothesis, starting with the absorption spectum of CO2, moving on to the heat signature of a greenhouse mechanism, the behavior of dynamical systems and finally to computer modeling techniques. You know what? It would be just as effective to explain it to my golden retreiver (who’d probably be a much more polite audience).

    They don’t understand the fundamentals of what they’re supporting, but they’re supporting it because it’s a tool for bringing about social change, and they’re convinced that any social change is good change, particularly if it gives “the right people” control over every aspect of the lives of the “little people”.

    And for all of the whining about helping people, the fact is that carbon trading schemes are nothing more than a mechanism for comoditizing poverty; we’re expecting the developing countries to remain in the pre-industrial state so that they can sell us carbon credits, which will essentially lock billions into lives of grinding, hopeless poverty.

    What we’re fighting here isn’t a scientific theory, it’s a lightly veiled totalitarian movement, with a veneer of that’s about as scientifically valid as Nazi “rascenwissenschaft”, and ultimately just as murderous.

  • no2nt

    Heard about this in idle conversation the other day. Read the article at the link [http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/13-2]

    Seems related and it looks like the Powershift conference might be a preemptive strategy to gain support for this in the U.S.

    After reading the article, especially the part about Bolivia’s Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, it’s no wonder the great unwashed masses are clamoring for their rights, instead of exercising their responsibilities.

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    They’d have to be useful…

    • Common_Cents

      We can call the youth idiots and alienate them. They weren’t born liberals. They were born impressionable and inexperienced. The left is getting to them first, intentionally with much focus and effort. That is our fault for not doing the same.

      We can alienate them and call them idiots or we can use similar tactics that liberals do to reach them and show how conservative thinking is cool and gets chicks.

      I have seen much of that type of alienation of many groups here at RS, calling whoever dumb and idiots when we should be selling conservatism benefits and circling our wagons.

      While the left has PDiddy telling them vote or die which sounds cool, we call them idiots for not knowing Ayn Rand isn’t a real conservative. FAIL

      • DONTREADONME

        that is why you have to provide the facts and make them available. Why do you think the left wants to control the debate or completely monopolize it, because with our opposition comes questions and questions will lead impressionable and ignorant young to question as age and maturity set it.

        I say the way to the youth is through rebellion, conservatives should easily be sold as the new the way to be different, i.e., be individualistic, because with these kids all I see is conformance.

        A little incoherent? It’s late I hope my point is in there somewhere.

        • DONTREADONME

          I agree with you

      • powertothepeople

        I think we miss out a lot on winning the minds of the youth and it killed us in the last election. While everyone is responsible for their own choices, when we miss out on educating people that is our fault. Especially since the internet is one of main sources of young adults education and it is so simple to get the message out on that forum.

  • mriggio

    Does the one young lady know how to can tomatoes? Does she intend to live on canned tomatoes? Would she know a Mason jar if she saw one?

    Why were they taking their pants off?

    Lastly, how OLD is Nancy Pelosi? I mean, really; just how old is she? Compared to those children, she looks to be about 95. And I’ll bet she likes canned tomatoes. Also, glad she didn’t take HER pants off.

    Cheers!

    • gekster

      I’ve been dealing with such.

  • http://xmmlbchat.blogspot.com katesmith

    The trillion dollar global warming industry could easily have been stopped years ago and was an obvious crime from day 1. Billions of US tax dollars are still in the pipeline for it. Plenty of Republicans went along with it and still do. George Bush (and Jeb) were big fans of ethanol which even Mayor Bloomberg, a big global warming profiteer, says causes many deaths due to food shortages. The environmental justice movement through the UN already has announced they need billions from American taxpayers. Elected Republicans could draw attention to this and stop it if they wanted to. They don’t want to. Frank Luntz a so-called GOP consultant with materials co-sponsored by Fox News, last year advised the Environmental Defense Fund that “republicans” mostly believe in global warming and could be sold on ‘clean’ energy programs if you used the right words with them.

  • 1stRichard

    746 watts equals one horsepower, an average car is about 200 horsepower (some much more) or 149,200 watts, and an average wind turbine is 1,250,000 watts. There are 254,400,000 cars in the US or 37,956,480,000,000 watts or 30,365,184 average wind turbines (25,000 to 2,500,000 watts). There are 3,794,083 square miles (including water) in the US and you would need a wind turbine placed every quarter mile operating at maximum to cover the same output of as the number of cars. There are about 130,000,000 households in the US, mostly with 100 amp service (with others having 200 or more amp service) or 12,000 watts each or 1560,000,000,000 watts. Cars plus households equals 39,516,480,000,000 watts, which equals a wind turbine around every tenth of a mile. (Note; these are peaks and averages that do not include losses or higher usage)

    What about industry and other power usage, you do the math. Do you think there is room for industry in the new green world order?