Environmentalism Is EVIL: Anti-People, Pro-State, And Anti-Progess - As Well As Anti-Civilisation Itself

Human beings inhabit cities and towns just as "naturally" as ants do with ant-hills - which is why the root of the word "civilisation" is civitas, which means "city."


While these "environmentalists" worry school-children sick over "vanishing forests and wildlife" - that FACT remains that all our cities and all our towns are DIRTY, FILTHY, DISEASE-RIDDEN, and UNFIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION. The picture on the left is of garbage in the capital, Nude Elly.

Yet, it is also a FACT that all around these cities and towns, there is ABUNDANT SPACE. Indeed, there is enough UNOWNED LAND all along our twin coasts to build 200 brand new cities - or more.

Of course, the Central Ministry of Forests & Environment has issued an "environmental clearance" for a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT in the "eco-sensitive" Western Ghats!

And, because of another nasty piece of central legislation on "protecting the coastal environment," it is our The State that is the effective Proprietor of all our beaches. We have no property rights along beaches - while they are, I guess, "protecting sand from erosion." Of course, this nasty Coastal Zone Regulation Act has established an "empowered bureaucracy" - and thereby caused even more corruption.

To me, PEOPLE MUST COME FIRST!

People need Property - and this is not just about farms and fields, it is, more importantly, about urban property. There is enough land. The only problem is the rules and regulations that empower corrupt bureaucracies: for example, to alter the "status" of a piece of land from "agricultural use" to "non-agricultural use," and so on.

The other REAL PROBLEM is transportation: for example, if there were excellent and quick transportation links throughout the National Capital Region - the vast "rural" surrounds of Nude Elly - then this "new city" would never ever have been so bloody OVERCROWDED. 

This is NOT the "population problem." 

In reality, it is a "transportation problem." 

With modern transportation all over the NCR, the urban population would spread out. Today, they cannot - because you can live only so far away from work. 

Extend this analysis to all our metros, and to all our Tier-I, Tier-II and Tier-III cities as well - and you will obtain the same result. 

This also obstructs "rural development" - because, with transportation, and subsequent "urbanisation," all these rural surrounds would actually see "development." 

The absence of transportation - the "rural-urban divide" - is the real cause of rural poverty. Poor people in villages need access to urban markets. And the value of their abundant acres can only rise if good transport links exist between village and town - for only then will bidders come for these acres.

I was told the likely tale of a clever African who told a Western environmentalist opposed to a new city being built that each and every city in the West was once "pristine nature," too. 

Yes, whether Manhattan, Hong Kong or Singapore - which must have been a TROPICAL jungle not so long ago.

The picture above is of Kuala Lumpur.


Wanna throw out the city and put the tropical jungle back?

And it is not true that there was "less pollution" in the good old days. London in the good old days stank. And there was the "smog" - because of the use of inefficient fuels. If you walk around any of the older parts, you will see all the chimneys atop all the houses - but there is no smoke anymore. Things are getting better, really, Indeed, before the automobile, tonnes of horse manure had to be shoveled off city streets in the West. The Thames was also filthy - and there is one recorded instance of even the Houses of Parliament being unable to meet because the river stank so. There were lots of diseases as well - but they fixed things, because they took PEOPLE FIRST!

But they preach a different language in the Third World.

So, let us dump environmentalism when it comes to people and cities and towns - and fix this "human habitat problem."

URGENTLY!

Highly recommended read: "The Libertarian Manifesto on Pollution" by Murray Rothbard

It is also NOT TRUE that all this "environmentalism" has done wonders for our forests and wildlife. Not at all. Tree cover, number of tigers, elephants, deer,  and other animals - they are ALL DECLINING.

Only the Forest Department is growing - and their powers are growing as well.

Meanwhile, the traditional forest-dwellers are up in ARMED REVOLT.

Much to think about, huh?

Why cannot timber be farmed? Today, even bamboo is "allotted" to paper mills by the Forest Department. What about sandalwood? Rosewood? Ebony? Mahogany? Teak? Sal?

Indeed, there ought to be BIG PRIZES for the best timber farmers!

Ditto for "wildlife" - and all these wild species would survive much better if they were "ranched," and hunters could have a go at them for a steep fee. This is why there are more black bucks in Texas than in the whole of India. And, in England, many owners of "country estates" make money by breeding "game birds" - and releasing them for hunters.

Note how humans are eating chicken so frequently these days compared to past centuries - and chickens are not going extinct, only because of "modern poultry farming."

Think! How can "endangered species" best survive?

Environmentalism reached its nadir with the "scam" on "climate change alarmism." But it shows something about how EVIL PEOPLE think: they only think of ways and means by which to INCREASE STATE POWER, including budgets, and subsidies. Look at each and every aspect of environmentalism - and you will surely find this fact sticking out. Like banning Edison's bulb. Anything.

Poor people in poor nations need efficient transportation and efficient energy - yes! But who will decide - the people themselves, or The State? 

In a completely liberated market, all kinds of entrepreneurs will approach them with all kinds of offers - and then, because of competition and choice, all the "good things" will happen. 

"Energy efficiency" in electrical appliances and motor vehicles does NOT come about because of State Power. On the contrary, these come about "naturally" because of Competition. All "technological innovation" is MARKET-DRIVEN - and it occurs only because competition drives free markets.




It is therefore that the WATERMELON pictured below is the best symbol of what environmentalism is really all about: 

GREEN OUTSIDE

RED INSIDE