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Green versus Black
Thomas Sowell (archive)
September 24, 2004
Among the many luxuries that wealth can buy is insulation from
reality -- the most dangerous luxury of all. Another dangerous luxury
is a sense of being one of the wonderfully special people with
superior wisdom and virtue. Environmental extremism flourishes among
those who can afford both luxuries.
Did you know that people in the wealthy San Francisco suburb of
Sausalito, across the bay, own 80,000 acres of land in Kenya? What
are they doing with it? They are setting it aside as a nature
preserve, in order to keep poor people in Kenya from hunting animals
for food on those 80,000 acres.
There are laments from Wildlife Works of Sausalito, the owners of
the land, that poachers are hunting in this sacrosanct wilderness
anyway and that 20 percent of the meat sold in Nairobi comes from
animals killed in this preserve. According to the San Francisco
Chronicle "With half the population living below the poverty line,
the temptation to poach for bush meat is strong."
What are rich people doing, in the first place, trying to stop poor
people on the other side of the world from getting something to eat?
They are feeding their own egos by hindering poor Africans from
feeding themselves.
It's not a racial thing. The green zealots would stop anybody from
doing anything they don't approve of. They talk grandly
about "protecting" this, "preserving" that, or "saving" something
else.
From what? From other people. Nor is this just a matter of buying up
things to keep them out of other people's hands. Far more often,
green zealots want the government to deprive other people of the
right to use land or resources for their own purposes, rather than
for the recreational or other purposes preferred by the green zealots.
They want bans on the building of housing under "open space" laws.
They want "historical preservation" laws to keep old buildings --
even an old racetrack -- from being torn down, because that could be
a prelude to building homes for other people.
In the United States, those other people have just as much right to
the "equal protection of the laws" under the Constitution. But what
is the Constitution when the green zealots are on a crusade?
Denying other people the same rights that you claim for yourself is
the essence of bigotry. People who call themselves environmentalists
could more accurately be called green bigots.
Selfishness is never a pretty thing but it is at its ugliest when it
masquerades as some kind of lofty nobility. That pose not only gets
the green bigots good press, it also helps recruit the young and
uninformed to their movement -- especially the young who have been
misinformed on college and university campuses.
There is another selfish aspect of the green bigots that the media
never seem to discuss Restrictions on the building of new housing
raises the value of existing housing -- and the leaders of the
environmental movement usually already have theirs.
As David Whelan of Forbes magazine put it "They preserve their 25
percent annual appreciation by extending everyone else's commute."
Every community has to have nurses, teachers, and policemen, but
people in these occupations are seldom paid enough to be able to live
where they work when local housing prices skyrocket because of laws
banning the building of homes on most of the local land. That means
commuting from far enough away to be able to afford a house or an
apartment.
It is not just the poor who cannot live in the places where affluent
environmentalists have political clout. People making a hundred grand
a year often cannot afford to live in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford
University, or in much of Marin County or San Mateo County, adjacent
to San Francisco. Especially if they have a family to support.
These are all enclaves "protected" by the green bigots.
People with children are being forced out of these places so much
that schools are being shut down for lack of students. The black
population of these places is also declining, even though the total
population is rising. But green trumps black.
What "protecting," "preserving," and "saving" mean is using the law
to impose the will of the green bigots on others.
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Secondo me è interessante, sempre meglio i verdi tedeschi di Pecoraro- Scanner.
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Luca Pardi
Accidenti c'è un problema nel primo post che lo rende praticamente incomprensibile mi sembra. Non so cosa sia successo.
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Green versus Black
Thomas Sowell (archive)
September 24, 2004
Among the many luxuries that wealth can buy is insulation from
reality -- the most dangerous luxury of all. Another dangerous luxury
is a sense of being one of the wonderfully special people with
superior wisdom and virtue. Environmental extremism flourishes among
those who can afford both luxuries.
Did you know that people in the wealthy San Francisco suburb of
Sausalito, across the bay, own 80,000 acres of land in Kenya? What
are they doing with it? They are setting it aside as a nature
preserve, in order to keep poor people in Kenya from hunting animals
for food on those 80,000 acres.
There are laments from Wildlife Works of Sausalito, the owners of
the land, that poachers are hunting in this sacrosanct wilderness
anyway and that 20 percent of the meat sold in Nairobi comes from
animals killed in this preserve. According to the San Francisco
Chronicle "With half the population living below the poverty line,
the temptation to poach for bush meat is strong."
What are rich people doing, in the first place, trying to stop poor
people on the other side of the world from getting something to eat?
They are feeding their own egos by hindering poor Africans from
feeding themselves.
It's not a racial thing. The green zealots would stop anybody from
doing anything they don't approve of. They talk grandly
about "protecting" this, "preserving" that, or "saving" something
else.
From what? From other people. Nor is this just a matter of buying up
things to keep them out of other people's hands. Far more often,
green zealots want the government to deprive other people of the
right to use land or resources for their own purposes, rather than
for the recreational or other purposes preferred by the green zealots.
They want bans on the building of housing under "open space" laws.
They want "historical preservation" laws to keep old buildings --
even an old racetrack -- from being torn down, because that could be
a prelude to building homes for other people.
In the United States, those other people have just as much right to
the "equal protection of the laws" under the Constitution. But what
is the Constitution when the green zealots are on a crusade?
Denying other people the same rights that you claim for yourself is
the essence of bigotry. People who call themselves environmentalists
could more accurately be called green bigots.
Selfishness is never a pretty thing but it is at its ugliest when it
masquerades as some kind of lofty nobility. That pose not only gets
the green bigots good press, it also helps recruit the young and
uninformed to their movement -- especially the young who have been
misinformed on college and university campuses.
There is another selfish aspect of the green bigots that the media
never seem to discuss Restrictions on the building of new housing
raises the value of existing housing -- and the leaders of the
environmental movement usually already have theirs.
As David Whelan of Forbes magazine put it "They preserve their 25
percent annual appreciation by extending everyone else's commute."
Every community has to have nurses, teachers, and policemen, but
people in these occupations are seldom paid enough to be able to live
where they work when local housing prices skyrocket because of laws
banning the building of homes on most of the local land. That means
commuting from far enough away to be able to afford a house or an
apartment.
It is not just the poor who cannot live in the places where affluent
environmentalists have political clout. People making a hundred grand
a year often cannot afford to live in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford
University, or in much of Marin County or San Mateo County, adjacent
to San Francisco. Especially if they have a family to support.
These are all enclaves "protected" by the green bigots.
People with children are being forced out of these places so much
that schools are being shut down for lack of students. The black
population of these places is also declining, even though the total
population is rising. But green trumps black.
What "protecting," "preserving," and "saving" mean is using the law
to impose the will of the green bigots on others.
Luca Pardi
Vabbé, ma è un articolo un po' stupido e di parte. Si vede perché pretende di accusare di egoismo chi vuole preservare la natura per tutti e soprattutto per le prossime generazioni.
Egoista è pensa solo ai cazzi suoi personali. Che c'entra con i qualche volta fanatici verdi?!?!
Dal 2005 siamo stati privati del 50% del nostro diritto di voto e nessuno fa una piega.
Hai colto solo un aspetto di tutto l'articolo.
Quello che mi ha colpito non erano certo le considerazioni urbanistiche, ma piuttosto il senso generale dello zeoltismo verde.
Luca Pardi
Tu vuoi far l'Americano? Ma ti ricordo che sei italiano, e che l'Italia campa anche di turismo, e che chi costruisce a cazzo mette a rischio un bene nazionale sul quale mangiamo tutti, e che in America hanno tanto spazio, e che da loro il problema dei beni archeologici non si pone perché non ne hanno ecc. ecc.
Dal 2005 siamo stati privati del 50% del nostro diritto di voto e nessuno fa una piega.