Bill Elder

2015-04-30 15:58:01 -0400

Gerry Butts – there’s a name that will for forever more be associated with epic failure of official policy solutions. As a conservationist myself, who has put many hours and dollars into true wildlife conservation, I can tell you that the organization Butts ran (World Wildlife Fund Canada) did NOT have conservationist policies/ideologies – they have become through policy shift, PRESERVATIONISTS – and there is a world of difference. And it’s why the WWF started losing corporate revenues when it went from a conservation effort to a UN environmental preservationist (see “un eco-preserves”) policy tool.



Conservationists manage wildlife and environments for responsible human utilization and sustainability. Preservationists ban the use of natural resources and believe that all should remain as it is- untouched and pristine. Of course where this preservationist ideal of wildlife and habitat fails is that they fight extinctions and habitat change when static environments are of course unnatural and unsustainable because environments are constantly changing naturally, sometimes rapidly and violently, and extincting the species which relied on them if that species cannot adapt to the new environment. The ground right under Gerry’s own desk once supported Mammoths, giant sloths, saber-tooth tigers and a dozen different antelopes which are all extinct now – but Preservationists excuse these glaring rips in their narrative as being “before industrial man”.



99.% of all species that have ever lived are extinct and the same for the habitats which supported these extinct species – all before we had discovered fire. Even Darwin (who the green cult worship) premised his theory on the fact that extinction is as natural as adaptive mutation. So what preservationists strive to do is reverse the natural cycles of environmental change, extinction and adaptation. Big epic fail on that.



Where am I going with this? Well, if you marry the narrow-minded nescient ideology of preservationist environmentalism to global socialist politics you end up with a real big economic-social cluster frig. Errant idealism meets goose-stepping mono-policy politics. The concept that hydro electricity production is finite and non renewable is just pure BS. – like preservationist ideology. No wonder Ontario is swimming in debt and deficient in electric energy production in the midst of bounty. Only extremely faulty logic can produce results like this. So, when I heard Butts had attached himself to the Trudeau gravy train, I went out and bought some beer and pop corn and decided to sit down and watch the train wreck.

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