Ruining the environment and increasing environmental sustainibility-liberal doublespeak UN Agenda 21

If this is not a showcase of environmental rape and irresponsibility then please tell me what is. First ethanol and then razing livable houses, apartment building in the name of environmental 'responsibility in some of our largest cities and all across the United States.

Liberal hypocrisy all the way around. Yes, Bush signed the law but Obama has only continued it.

Removing good housing to force people to live in smaller concentrated areas while restoring these areas to their 'natural state' while ruining the way people live, stealing their freedoms for the betterment of the general population.

I am sure the rabid leftards of hippies, freaks, fairies, hairy, lightly showered and shaved tree hugging, job hating prairie fairies, the collectivists of the environazi movement would be sure to tell me how wrong I am.

Really? Then please do so.

 

The BEST stewards of the land, timber, plains, oceans are those who have loved these resources, worked these resources for generations. Farmers, ranchers, fisherman, loggers, fire fighters, the ones whose hands are in the soil, in the oceans, rivers, and planting and harvesting timber.

These are the individuals, families, who understand the balance of work, harvest and protecting resources. Not some doe eyed, long haired, never have worked a day in their cuddly lives, right out of college Sierra Club trolls or Earth First destructicons. I know about harvesting and saving timber. I know all about watching livelihoods and industries get destroyed over some feel good, magical legislation. Can you say SPOTTED OWL? Now the government wants to kill Barred Owls that are hunting the Spotted Owls out of existence or forcing them to move. This is called survival of the fittest and should be left alone.

How is ethanol good for the land, conservation or feeding people, not just here but around the world? It is just corn that is now grown and used for ethanol, faithful readers. Soybeans are used as are various roots, berries and other food crops. Not to mention how bad ethanol is for any engine, period. PatriotUSA

Steer in: Cry and Howl.
 

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The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push

CORYDON, Iowa (AP) -- The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply.

Even the cemetery that disappeared like an apparition into a cornfield. It wasn't supposed to be this way.

With the Iowa political caucuses on the horizon in 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama made homegrown corn a centerpiece of his plan to slow global warming. And when President George W. Bush signed a law that year requiring oil companies to add billions of gallons of ethanol to their gasoline each year, Bush predicted it would make the country "stronger, cleaner and more secure."

But the ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the environment than politicians promised and much worse than the government admits today.

As farmers rushed to find new places to plant corn, they wiped out millions of acres of conservation land, destroyed habitat and polluted water supplies, an Associated Press investigation found.

Five million acres of land set aside for conservation — more than Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite National Parks combined — have vanished on Obama's watch.
Landowners filled in wetlands. They plowed into pristine prairies, releasing carbon dioxide that had been locked in the soil.

Sprayers pumped out billions of pounds of fertilizer, some of which seeped into drinking water, contaminated rivers and worsened the huge dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico where marine life can't survive.

The consequences are so severe that environmentalists and many scientists have now rejected corn-based ethanol as bad environmental policy. But the Obama administration stands by it, highlighting its benefits to the farming industry rather than any negative impact.

Farmers planted 15 million more acres of corn last year than before the ethanol boom, and the effects are visible in places like south central Iowa. The hilly, once-grassy landscape is made up of fragile soil that, unlike the earth in the rest of the state, is poorly suited for corn. Nevertheless, it has yielded to America's demand for it.

"They're raping the land," said Bill Alley, a member of the board of supervisors in Wayne County, which now bears little resemblance to the rolling cow pastures shown in postcards sold at a Corydon pharmacy.

All energy comes at a cost. The environmental consequences of drilling for oil and natural gas are well documented and severe. But in the president's push to reduce greenhouse gases and curtail global warming, his administration has allowed so-called green energy to do not-so-green things.

In some cases, such as its decision to allow wind farms to kill eagles, the administration accepts environmental costs because they pale in comparison to the havoc it believes global warming could ultimately cause.

Ethanol is different.

The government's predictions of the benefits have proven so inaccurate that independent scientists question whether it will ever achieve its central environmental goal: reducing greenhouse gases. That makes the hidden costs even more significant.

"This is an ecological disaster," said Craig Cox with the Environmental Working Group, a natural ally of the president that, like others, now finds itself at odds with the White House.

But it's a cost the administration is willing to accept. It believes supporting corn ethanol is the best way to encourage the development of biofuels that will someday be cleaner and greener than today's. Pulling the plug on corn ethanol, officials fear, might mean killing any hope of these next-generation fuels.

"That is what you give up if you don't recognize that renewable fuels have some place here," EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said in a recent interview with AP. "All renewable fuels are not corn ethanol."

Still, corn supplies the overwhelming majority of ethanol in the United States, and the administration is loath to discuss the environmental consequences.

Read the entire story here, and weep as you do. 

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Here is Agenda 21 in action even though liberals will never admit it. This link is from some LIBERALS who see the deep evil that is UN Agenda 21.

Fading cities raze and rebuild

By Timothy Williams

BALTIMORE — Shivihah Smith’s East Baltimore neighborhood, where he lives with his mother and grandmother, is disappearing. The block one over is gone. A dozen rowhouses on an adjacent block were removed one afternoon last year.

And on the corner a few weeks ago, a pair of houses that were damaged by fire collapsed.

The city bulldozed those and two others, leaving scavengers to pick through the debris for bits of metal and copper wire.

“The city doesn’t want these old houses," lamented Smith, 36.

For the Smiths, the bulldozing of city blocks is a source of anguish. But for Baltimore, as for a number of American cities in the Northeast and Midwest that have lost big chunks of their population, it is increasingly regarded as a path to salvation. Because despite the well-publicized embrace by young professionals of once-struggling city centers in New York, Seattle and Los Angeles, for many cities urban planning has often become a form of creative destruction.

“It is not the house itself that has value, it is the land the house stands on," said Sandra Pianalto, the president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. “This led us to the counterintuitive concept that the best policy to stabilize neighborhoods may not always be rehabilitation. It may be demolition."

Large-scale destruction is well known in Detroit, but it is also underway in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Buffalo and other cities at a total cost of more than $250 million. Officials are tearing down tens of thousands of vacant buildings, many perfectly habitable, as they seek to stimulate economic growth, reduce crime and blight, and increase environmental sustainability.

A recent Brookings Institution study found that from 2000 to 2010 the number of vacant housing units nationally had increased by 44 percent, or 4.5 million. And a report by the University of California, Berkeley, determined that over the past 15 years, 130 cities, most with relatively small populations, have dissolved themselves, more than half the total ever recorded in the United States.

The continuing struggles of former manufacturing centers have fundamentally altered urban planning, traditionally a discipline based on growth and expansion. Today, it is also about disinvestment patterns to help determine which depopulated neighborhoods are worth saving; what blocks should be torn down and rebuilt; and based on economic activity, transportation options, infrastructure and population density, where people might best be relocated. Some even focus on returning abandoned urban areas into forests and meadows.

“It’s like a whole new field," said Margaret Dewar, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan.

In all, more than half of the nation’s 20 largest cities in 1950 have lost at least one-third of their populations. And since 2000, a number of cities, including Baltimore, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Buffalo, have lost around 10 percent; Cleveland has lost more than 17 percent; and more than 25 percent of residents have left Detroit.

Source is here from our local so called conservative road kill wrapper.

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