Liberty or Sustainable Development?
Chapter
9: A Healthy Planet and Individual Liberty are Inseparable
Sunday, October 12, 2008
By Michael Shaw
Freedom Advocates
This picture is of land in Santa Cruz County that my wife and I bought in
1985.
The day this picture was taken was in May of 1986. I remember it well because
it was the day that my wife and I got married there. The land looked
good to us. It had an interesting topography and great ocean views.
Half of the land was pasture land; the other half was impenetrable walls
of poison oak as much as 40 feet high. But we liked it. We were excited
with the potential.
Without grazing cows, you needed plastic pants to walk comfortably through the
pasture grasses. This was because you’d be repeatedly stuck and
stabbed by the thistles and burrs that were everywhere. We spent over
20 years conducting a slow and steady process that we call “seed
bank management”. Our goal was to transform this landscape and
to create a landscape that we and others would find desirable. Slowly
– slowly - slowly like the Liberty movement itself, we replaced
weedy and inhospitable plant communities by managing the seeds that
fell. Occasionally we would see a unique plant and we would have it
identified. If it was an indigenous plant type we would nurture it.
In April of 2003, the circled portion of the above landscape looked like
the landscape below. It was all California plants with hardly a weed
in the mix.
Rigorous human disturbance transformed the landscape. Every concept of Sustainable
Development land management policies was violated. This is proof that
people will achieve great things when they work in their own interests
while cooperating with others. These are the ideas that are the American
Experience. They define the success at Liberty Garden.
The Precautionary Principle underlies Sustainable Development environmental
policy. It is a hoax.
The Precautionary Principle premise is the notion that people are a
cancer on the earth. Therefore, if people undertake any action it must
cause no “harm” to species or inanimate natural objects.
In other words; if your cows walk on the ‘wrong spot’ on
your property you may have criminally violated Sustainable Development’s
‘environmental justice’ rules. The Precautionary Principle
turns the concept of equal justice on its head. Guilt is presumed and
innocence must be proved. The Los Angeles City School District requires
that all public schools teach the Precautionary Principle as the Law
of the Land.
California has the (so-called) Keeley Environmental Crimes Bill. Fred Keeley was
a state legislator from Santa Cruz. California has used this bill to
authorize 400 prosecutors who roam the state looking for ‘environmental
crimes’. This is not directed at gross polluters; I don’t
know any gross polluters do you? Science and technology have delivered
remarkably cleaner air to Southern California compared to 25 years ago.
Now prosecutors look for people who violate “bio-diversity rules”.
These “violations” often occurs after a landowner has been
lured or roped into a federal or state “best management practice”
or similar “conservation” program. If you are a landowner
don’t contract your rights away! Save your land for the benefit
of yourself, the American people and the future of mankind.
At the root of the establishment environmental movement is a scheme designed
to implement a political philosophy that relies on deception and junk
science. Sustainable Development results in a degrading ecology as the
rash of western firestorms demonstrate.
The environmental movement answers the question, “Who decides?”
with the response, “Not you.” The environmental movement
is destroying the potential of a free society through public policy.
Don’t fall for the ‘environmental protection’ sing-along
that propels establishment environmentalism. The goal of Sustainable
Development is to collectivize the American landscape, its resources
and the people.
California and the United States are falling into a financial hole. This is not
just because of military adventures but because Sustainable Development
policy is fed by hundreds of billions of government dollars. We are
spending America into bankruptcy in order to steal America from Americans!
Remember: Support the repeal of the Endangered Species Act. We can do
better than destroy America by implementing Sustainable Development.
Historically, American lands have been well managed when compared with
alternative political frameworks. The American experience demonstrates
that the moral is also practical.
Liberty Garden demonstrates that private property raises ecological management
standards as wealth increases. Private property, individual liberty
and equal justice are the ingredients that give rise to an improving
world. Sustainable Development is designed to destroy the abundance
and prosperity that individual liberty brings to society. Sustainable
Development is designed to create natural resource shortages in order
to further core Sustainable goals. Those goals are to eliminate the
middle class and control a declining human population.
Liberty! or Sustainable Development is a 13 Chapter serial adaptation of the
transcript of Michael Shaw’s opening speech from the video: Liberty
or Sustainable Development. Michael Shaw is President
of Freedom Advocates.org. He can be reached at Shaw@FreedomAdvocates.org.
Chapter 1: Understanding Liberty ----
Chapter 2: The Decay of Liberty – An Illustration ----
Chapter 3: Defining Sustainable Development ----
Chapter 4: Liberty or Sustainable Development? ----
Chapter 5: A Closer Look at Sustainable Development Part A----
Chapter 6: A Closer Look at Sustainable Development Part B----
Chapter 7: Sustainable Development’s
Land Use Element ----
Chapter 8: Rooting
Sustainable Development in the USA----
Chapter 9: A Healthy Planet and
Individual Liberty are Inseparable----
Chapter 10: Reinvention
of Government - Part 1----
Chapter 11: Reinvention
of Government - Part 2----
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