Environment
There are many sides to every story, and this section attempts to point out sane, sensible things you can do on your own to make a true positive impact, along with a critique of what some environmentalist organizations claim.
- Good Environmentalism
- There aren’t many true environmentalist organizations, but there are a few, and they deserve praise.
- Fraudulent Environmentalism
- A lot of what you hear described in the mass media as widely-held views of the vast majority of scientists is in fact far more controversial, and viewed as uncertain, by many good scientists. Here is some of the other side of the story.
- Expand Logging to Save Our Forests
- The severe restrictions on logging in the United States have not only harmed Americans by destroying jobs and making houses and other products made from wood more expensive, they have actually harmed our forests by making them tinder-clogged fire-traps. These dense forests typically burn to the ground instead of surviving fires, and are not even good habitats for many animals.
- What the Environmentalists Really Think
- I’m starting to collect a list of quotations about the environment. The first installation is from well-known environmentalists who clearly state their dislike for the human race.
Scientific Reports
- Saving Salmon
- A report put together by “Oregonians In Action”, along with an article from the group on how the issue affects landowners, and more comments.
- Read the Yosemite Plan
- Read the plan and make your voice heard during the Public Comment time.
- MTBE Report—from UC Davis
- Recommended by Dr. Bill
- The Low-Down on High Octane Gasoline
- Read the Federal trade Commission’s opinion on high vs. regular octane gasoline.
More details: Exxon consent decree to stop false “premium gas” marketing.
True/False “test” on when “premium” gas is needed.
Gas-Saving Products: Facts or Fuelishness?
More Reading
- Bill Wattenburg’s testimony to the Calif. Legislature on MTBE
- Given on April 30, 1996 to the California State Assembly budget committee.
- Sacramento Bee Expose on Environmental Organizations
- In a special report now missing from both the paper’s Web site and the Internet Archive, the Sacramento Bee’s Expose: Environmental Orginizations Are Now Big-Business, this five-part series from April of 2001 by The Bee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental reporter, Tom Knudson, details how most of the so-called environmental orginizations have become money-hungry businesses that don’t act like they really have the Earth’s best interests at heart.
