Message to the Tree Huggers
I’ve spent much of this evening working with pictures from my lovely wife’s family, some dating back to about 1900.
In doing so, and in writing about the 300th million American, I realized that the green movement, the tree huggers, live in a fantasy world.
One of the pictures on my web page Days of Yore shows the Adermann family of Ray, North Dakota. It shows the parents, three daughters and the hired hand / boy. All the kids are seated on oxen. The family lived in a sod hut and two of the three girls died of TB.
The Adermanns lived about as close to the land as it is possible to get. It was hard work, at a time when people like them routinely starved because of crop failures and other nature-related occurrences. Or froze to death. Or, as witnessed here, died young of terrible diseases.
They spent their lives in discomfort most of the time, too cold, too hot, hungry or thirsty, dirty and sweaty. Oh, to them it would have been routine and only the extremes would have been cause for comment. But to us, to my tree hugger friends, they lived a hard life.
You and I will live an average of thirty years longer than our ancestors did a hundred years ago. Our children will rarely die before reaching adulthood. We will not fear the Spring and Summer for the epidemics that those seasons used to bring.
We can read and write. We can vote. Our world is not bounded by the distance our horse can carry us in a day. We have running water and plumbing in our homes. We are immunized against all of the great killers of the last century or we have removed the conditions that promoted those diseases.
So, my greenie friends, just what good old days would you like to return to? After killing off the excess five billion or so, what will you do with the bodies? Just how well will you live without the existence and support of your fellow man?
And, what will you have to say when I come and take your women, animals and crops because it’s much easier than working?
From: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06101807.html
“In January 2006, Patrick Harvie a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Green party, asked Strathclyde Police to investigate with the intention to prosecute, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, Mario Conti, for defending marriage in a sermon at a church service.”
They’re branching out!