The New Environmentalists

Los Angeles sprawling tent city

Living among recycled drug needles and pet vermin, composting garbage and human feces in the gutter ... but NO plastic straws!

Chinatown

California is suffering an extended drought ... just like it has done many times in the past ... even long before this "global warming" bugbear. This state goes through repeated periods of too much and then too little water. In years past reservoirs and water transportation systems were built to take advantage of this cycle. (Remember the movie "Chinatown?") Unfortunately, current efforts that could be taken to alleviate the lack of water are now being blocked by environmentalists says Carly Fiorina ... see: Breitbart Article.

Some key points that she makes in this interview with Glenn Beck are:

- California's current drought is a man-made disaster driven by ideology

- 70% of the rain water and snow that now falls in California just washes out to sea

- No new reservoir or water conveyance system has be built during a period when California's population has doubled

- Last year in Washington, efforts to pump more water to Southern California were thwarted by Obama and the Democrats

- The 40% unemployment rate in California's central valley is the price willingly paid by water-restricting environmentalists who care more for fish, frogs and flies than for people.

So now you see children ... environmentalists can be just as bloodthirsty and self-serving as the cruel infrastructure-building capitalists depicted in the movie "Chinatown."

Manatees Too

Remember the spotted owl? Its "threatened extinction" was the reason that the environmentalist used to reduce drastically the cutting of timber in the northwest United States. How about the snail darter? Again a creature that was the poster child for shutting off water to the farmers of the Central Valley of California. And the peregrine falcon? Rachael Carson used this bird as a way of outlawing DDT (and in the process killing millions of humans with malaria, etc.) And the salmon ... goodbye to any new hydroelectric dams ... and even a sizable parcel of older ones.

Enter stage left the manatee ... which now it is believed relies on the warm water exiting from coal-fired power plants in Florida to ease the rigors of cold weather there ... see: Miami Herald Article. But wait! This can't be! If the tree-huggers were to be consistent, they would fight our fearless leader's war on such "environmental hazards" as the use of coal to produce electricity.

But are they?   [... crickets ....]   One can only assume that these other animals were really incidental to the real hidden agendas of those who knew that they knew what was best for the rest of us.