- My long time Canadian friend Tim Murray brings it home
as to environment and human onslaught. As the human mob overwhelms and
overpopulates the planet, Mother Nature bats last. You can see it in Somalia
in the past month. You will see it in more "Somalia's" to come
in areas like India, Mexico, China and Bangladesh. You can see it in the
erratic and violent weather patterns now engulfing the planet. You can
see it in the acid rain destroying our soils. You can see it in the species
extinction rates. You can see it in the beleaguered city folks that struggle
with their compacted tensions around the world.
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- "It is amazing what Mother Nature doesn't care about,"
said Murray. "Her house rules are impartially enforced, indifferent
to our protestations. And they were not designed with us in mind. Her biophysical
laws cannot be repealed by a democratic parliament or be subject to the
whims of human autocrats. She doesn't care about our political arrangements.
Or about how we treat the passengers in our lifeboat. Only that we have
overloaded it.
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- "Left and right dichotomies are irrelevant to her
concerns. Mother Nature takes no notice of our class structure. We can
run our vessel like a slave ship or we can eliminate all class and racial
barriers on board. But whether we choose to live in feudal subjugation
or be organized by socio-economic caste or egalitarian harmony, we will
remain accountable to her demands. Her ship's manifest only records
three facts. The number of passengers, their ecological weight and where
they are situated. If those of lesser means---the vast majority, in the
name of justice, are permitted to shift to our side of the boat, she will
capsize it without mercy.
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- "Mother Nature is not a humanitarian. She does not
accept Mother Theresa's credentials. Neither Judeo-Christian ethics
or the rhetoric of the antique civil rights movement make no impression
on her. Climate "Justice", Environmental "Justice"
human rights, women's rights, the rights of the disabled or the rights
of the poor and the dispossessed are of little interest to her. Our petition
to rescue drowning swimmers who are victimized by persecution, war or ecological
disaster will not be received with sympathy. Mother Nature doesn't give
a crap about our moral imperatives. She doesn't care if people we judge
to be worthy (the poor, the persecuted, the people of color, the handicapped,
the oppressed) should be lifted on to our lifeboat--- only if it is overloaded.
Her laws of physics trump the laws of any Holy Text, ethical system or
left-wing Manifesto. If even a small remnant of us survive, we will have
to play by her rules, not ours.
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- "Mother Nature does not make fine distinctions between
legal and illegal, skilled or unskilled immigrants. She can't distinguish
immigrants from refugees, legitimate from illegitimate asylum-seekers,
white from black or European from Asian or Hispanic migrants, or those
who climb aboard via the airport from those new consumers who enter through
the local maternity ward. All human passengers have footprints whatever
their origin, and no category of humanity earns an exemption from her law
of Carrying Capacity.
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- "Some believe that Mother Nature can be fooled or
appeased by technical improvements that grow a phantom capacity, which
only enables the addition of more passengers-as did the "Green Revolution".
No technological con job can win us a permanent reprieve from her determination
to adjust the number of passengers to the limited capacity of our boat.
Nor is she deceived by the sweet talk of oxymoronic buzzwords
like "sustainable growth", "smart growth", "smart
cars" or "green buildings". In fact, this lady is from Missouri.
When a 'green' politician talks a good game she replies "Show me."
Actions speak louder than words.
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- "Mother Nature might be characterized as a callous
witch, but she is more like a stubbornly neutral umpire. Scream at her
with outrage, if you will, but when the Ump says we're out, we're out.
By all means, quote from your sacred book, but she will remain unmoved.
The Bible, the Koran, The Wealth of Nations and Das Kapital will fall on
deaf ears. If there are too many passengers and not enough to go around,
her ruling will be upheld.
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- "Passionate, defiant, compliant, passive, devout
or agnostic, we have no bargaining power with Mother Nature. We need her,
but she doesn't need us. We either get with her program, or we don't get
anywhere. It is amazing what Mother Nature doesn't care about."
- Interview with Tim Murray and republished with his permission
by Frosty Wooldridge
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- Tim Murray, www.immigrationwatchCanada.org , http://sinkinglifeboat.blogspot.com
- or http://biodiversityfirst.googlepages.com, said,
"I came upon an orchestration, the environmental movement, and all
the musicians were playing violins to the tune of "Overconsumption,
overconsumption, overconsumption." They refused to play any other
tune or use any other instrument to compliment that narrow repertoire.
Apparently some corporate donors were paying them to be a one-trick pony.
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