The environmental movement may have began with high minded individuals seeking to improve the natural state of the world, it has since mutated into the issue generating funding seeker that we have today. It has spread its tentacles under the “green” umbrella to include everything from anti-logging to anti-meat and production agriculture to anti-corporate anything. The organizations born out of this movement have developed into corporations themselves with budgets in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars used to impose their eco-naziism on society. Prime targets for their propaganda are the lemmings of society and the younger generation. PETA seems to be the non-profit organization most 13 to 24 year olds would volunteer for, as Chris pointed out in her last blog. It is apparent, however, that youth is not a prerequisite to be easily influenced. Take a look at this video clip in which an accomplice of Penn & Teller get people at an environmental rally to sign a petition banning water: http://www.grasstopsusa.com/videoh2o.html.
While humorous, it’s a sobering thought to see so many who are merely followers and how these organizations work to put another nail in the coffin of common sense.