Environmentalism & Animal Rights

- - MERCER, 2002: “As we speak, government-managed forests are going up in flames. Lives and property have been lost. This is to be expected. Be it in fishery or forest, communist custodianship removes all the attributes of private property, namely, the incentive to conserve. Lack of ownership is the death knell for the resource. Only when it is owned, and not just leased for periodical plunder, will a forest continue to be a viable and renewable source of riches, monetary and other. The solution clearly lies not in better regulation of a resource but in its privatization.”—ILANA MERCER, “MUTANT MARXISTS IN ‘THE HEART OF DARKNESS’,” August 28, 2002
  - “For the Left, love of the environment amounts to an anti-intellectual, atavistic ritual, the kind performed by Homo species, say, when lightning struck. Primitive man would have looked to the heavens, and promised a sacrifice, to appease the particular god in control. In our times, the pagan pantheon has been replaced with the Almighty God of Climate Change.”—ILANA MERCER, “Conservation is Conservative,” August 4, 2022.
  - “BLM? How about BEE: Black-and-yellow lives matter.”—ILANA MERCER, “Conservation is Conservative,” August 4, 2022.
  - The Learjet liberals—the world’s wokerati—are plotting against gasoline, goshawks (birdies) and you.“—ILANA MERCER, “Commie Cars,” May 1, 2002, & “Learjet Liberals Against Gasoline and Goshawks In Glasgow,” November 4, 2021
  - “Perhaps the biggest obfuscation in the gimmick-car racket—which all recent presidents have fallen for—has to do with the source of the energy. Whether a vehicle is propelled by hydrogen-powered fuel cells or electricity, both electricity and hydrogen don’t magically materialize in the vehicle. They must first be generated. Be it coal, natural gas, nuclear or a hydroelectric dam, these cars are only as clean as the original source of energy that generated the vim that powers them.“—ILANA MERCER, “Commie Cars,” May 1, 2002, & “Learjet Liberals Against Gasoline and Goshawks In Glasgow,” November 4, 2021
  - “The more efficient the source of energy, the less waste and pollution are involved in its conversion into energy. Think of the totality of the production process! The fewer resources expended in bringing a fuel to market, the cleaner and cheaper is the process.“—ILANA MERCER, “THE GOODS ON GAS,” June 13, 2008, & “Learjet Liberals Against Gasoline and Goshawks In Glasgow,” November 4, 2021.
  - “Conservation is conservative.“—ILANA MERCER, May 1, 2021.
  - “Sentimentality about animals is one of the things that separates us from the barbaric civilizations. I include The Left’s worldview as part of the ‘barbaric civilizations.’ The Left sees animals, certainly wild life, as comprising species to sustain, not as individual creatures of God, for which we humans must care.“—ILANA MERCER, “Liberals View Wild Life As Worthy Only As Part Of A ‘Species,’ A Herd,” July 3, 2018.
  - “Liberals view wild life as worthy only as part of a ‘species,’ a herd.”—ILANA MERCER, “Liberals View Wild Life As Worthy Only As Part Of A ‘Species,’ A Herd,” July 3, 2018.
  - “Alaska runs in Sarah’s bloodstream; its wildlife, its seascape and landscapes, as well as man’s reliance on both for muse and … meat. This Alaskan Diana, goddess of the hunt, is carnivore and conservationist.”—ILANA (January 15, 2010)
  - “Environmental lobbies abhor all by-products of human existence, unless generated by illegal aliens. In that case, the vast latrine and land fill created along the border with Mexico, as millions of illegals defecate and despoil their way to their destinations in the US, are just dandy. To interfere with the natural formation of this outsized outhouse is to “jeopardize the quality of life and beauty of South Texas.”—ILANA (April 4, 2008)
  - “If one is looking to criminalize ‘excessive’ emissions of carbon, as Al Gore is, then buying carbon credits is like getting a hit-and-run allowance. Exceed your allowable hit-and-runs, and you get to pay a lesser offender for the right to pick-off more pedestrians.”—ILANA (November 2, 2007)
  - On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming: “Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory is enlisted as evidence for the correctness of the theory; every permutation in weather patterns—warm or cold—is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.”—ILANA (December 29, 2006)
  - “It used to be that men killed and hunted encroaching creatures. Thanks to decades of cultural queering and legal emasculation, men no longer have the urge to protect home and hearth.”—ILANA Mercer, (June 11, 2005) & Private: “Picnic Time For Teddy Bears, October 8, 2010
  - “Reds, and now Greens, agree that wise bureaucrats alone have the wherewithal to make decisions for billions of people. The 20th century was a monument to these decision-makers. A handful of communist commissars replaced with their own commands, and at the point of a gun, the voluntary decisions, valuations and exchanges made by millions of people. To achieve this, governments—not capitalists—murdered roughly 80 million people. The devastation the Reds wrought was not incidental but inherent to the ideology of collectivism and statism.”—ILANA MERCER, “MUTANT MARXISTS IN ‘THE HEART OF DARKNESS’,” August 28, 2002
  - “Resources in nature are useless lumps of nothing. If not for man, iron, aluminum, coal and oil would lie purposeless and pristine in the wildernesses.”—ILANA MERCER, “MUTANT MARXISTS IN ‘THE HEART OF DARKNESS’,” August 28, 2002
  - “Most resources provided by nature become goods of value only when man connects the dots. If not for man, the matter and energy abundant on earth would come to naught. The ability to discover and transform natural resources into usable goods, as well as to develop ‘resource-enhancing and sustaining technologies’ are the unique province of man. Man discovered that these elements could be used to assuage human needs. Once he identified and ingeniously matched the human need with the material thing, he went on to devise ways to harness the resource.”—ILANA MERCER, “MUTANT MARXISTS IN ‘THE HEART OF DARKNESS’,” August 28, 2002
  - “Over decades, governments have circumvented the ability of ordinary people to protect their environment by eroding common law property rights and usurping them with government statutes and regulations, attached to which are lower environmental standard as well as a limited liability.”—ILANA mercer, “Property Rights in Water a Solution to Coerced Chlorination,” January 24, 2001
  - “Government has consistently stripped the common law of its power and usurped it with statutes, acts and regulations attached to which is a lower environmental standard than the common law would impel as well as a limited liability.”—ILANA mercer, “Common Law Has Been Defanged,” March 6, 2000

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