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Just in time for the Fourth of July when millions of people across the country will visit Americas national parks and other public lands the Koch brothers are rolling out their latest campaign against these treasured places: pushing for no more national parks.
In an op-ed published in Tuesdays New York Times, Reed Watson, the executive director at the Koch-backed Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), along with a research associate at the Center, call for no more national parks, citing the backlog in maintenance for existing parks.
True conservation is taking care of the land and water you already have, not insatiably acquiring more and hoping it manages itself, the op-ed reads. Lets maintain what weve already got, so we can protect it properly, it concludes.
While the authors seem to push for true conservation from the federal government, in reality, PERC has a long history of advocating for the privatization of Americas national parks and other public lands, and has significant ties to the Koch brothers and fossil fuel industries.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/03/3676816/happy-fourth-no-more-national-parks/
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)be the major money behind all of the States Privatizing Federal Lands. Duh!!!
Journeyman
(15,044 posts)then when they're done, what's left won't be worth saving so "everyone wins."
Warpy
(111,467 posts)They're trying to tell us that rich old men in 3 piece suits can manage clean water better than the earth itself can?
The whole point of national parks is to keep their mitts off it so that the ecosystem has a chance to regulate, the water and air clear, plant life and wildlife to rebound.
Apparently these old bastards think fracking rigs improve all that stuff.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they don't care about improvement- only profit.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)I think the parks will manage just fine without our privatized "conservation."
liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)Oil and mining and logging.
samsingh
(17,605 posts)it means nothing and is full of lies.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)to the future of this country and humanity itself.
C_U_L8R
(45,040 posts)Just think of all the crappy Koch toilet paper they could make.
The klown brothers are a blight on the planet !
Initech
(100,149 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)and then argue because they don't do the job, the resources should be turned over to private hands.
How many times do we have to see this before we grasp it is the modus operandi?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)(but it should)
QED
(2,754 posts)instead of hiding profits offshore the US could afford to maintain the parks.
Kablooie
(18,648 posts)And not under control of the federal government.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141135536
It sounds like essentially they want to eliminate the United States and break into 50 small independent countries.
What fine patriotic Americans they are.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Given what they have done in Wisconsin and Kansas, unfettered Kochdom would be hells on earth. States not under their sway would have to limit immigration.
Kablooie
(18,648 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,562 posts)Thanks for the thread, n2doc.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)True conservation is taking care of the land and water you already have, not insatiably acquiring more and hoping it manages itself, the op-ed reads. Lets maintain what weve already got, so we can protect it properly, it concludes. "
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Any puke complaining about insatiable acquisition is so outrageous to be laughable. What they really want is available land to frack and drill. Protect it properly means putting fences around their oil wells.
dmr
(28,364 posts)Americans need reminding why we have them and its incalculable value to each of us and to our children's children's children.
Fuck the Koch and their Bircher ways.