Eco-Justice EPA Style
Privileged Planet; Plundered People, Part 1
Debra Rae
In the early 1970s, a trendy role-playing exercise, the "Lifeboat Game," 1 presumed to clarify
students’ values in public school classrooms. It works like this: As a group of survivors, lost in
rough seas, cling to a dangerously overcrowded rescue boat, they reason that some of them
must be sacrificed for others to live. Based on its self-acclaimed moral authority, derived from
decades of ecological restoration, who better than the EPA to make the cut?
To this end, each survivor is rated by his or her value to society. In a reenactment of this
provocative game, let’s imagine the Environmental Protection Agency is charged with the
following life-death decisions.
Women and Children: Ann Bressington and Neonate Non-Person
Designated decision-makers ponder the golden standard of conduct for shipwrecks—namely,
“women and children first.” Though arguably chivalrous, the code is determined to be myth that
“went down with the Titanic a century ago.”2
Since all agree that saving “ladies first” is archaic, Australian politician Ann Bressington is fast
fingered for ejection. In her view, Agenda 21 effectively (and inappropriately) controls every
aspect of life.3 She objects to big-project spending that ignores lack of funds and horrific debt
while, at the same time, requiring ordinary citizens to tighten their belts. 4 Finally, Bressington
rejects belief that private land ownership unfairly concentrates wealth and thereby contributes to
social injustice 5 Because social equity and "environmental justice” justify the EPA's very
existence, Bressington is first to go.6
The next easy nix is a nameless, neonate non-person, inflicted with a visible birth defect. All
concur, the surviving child, attended by its elderly grandmother, is an unsustainable, useless
eater, hardly qualified as one of the 250-300 million populace judged ideal for sustaining the
planet. Hence, bye-bye, baby.7 Referencing the “I Have Lived a Good Life” campaign, whereupon
smiling seniors admit to having used up their share of earth’s resources, the EPA nixes Grandma,
too.8
PC Sensitive Ejections of Dr. Ben Carson and Tiger Woods
Next under consideration, a distinguished African-American, Dr. Ben Carson9 gained international
notoriety for his innovative technique in separating even adult conjoined twins. Technocracy is
rule by scientific experts over an economic system designed to replace capitalism and free
enterprise, as we know it today; 10 but Carson will have no part in it. If for no other reason than his
conservative politics, the good doctor-scientist is targeted for ejection; however, in moving
forward, it’s agreed, extreme care must be taken not to appear racist. 11
Under similar consideration, the “World's Greatest Golfer” Tiger Woods12 is yet another famous
person of color; however, the Global Biodiversity Assessment directed by the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) calls for urgent action to reverse the effects of unsustainable
human activities on global biodiversity, including but not limited to golf courses. 13
Therefore, along with Carson, Tiger goes down.
Pro-life David Green
Fundamental Christianity is no friend to bio-centricity. Nor is David Green. Founding CEO of
Hobby Lobby, David Green is an obvious cut. A Christian of unwavering conviction, Green defied
the Obama Care mandate supporting “women’s reproductive health.” Though constitutionally
correct, Green is by no means an advocate of zero population growth. 14 Don’t let his PC name
fool you: Down he goes, along with the others!
EPA’s Own: Alan Carlin
A midlevel EPA employee might expect favor, but not Alan Carlin. In March 2009, Carlin wrote a
critical, 98-page report backed by peer-reviewed science, which concluded, “We believe our
concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by
the EPA.” Carlin’s supervisor, an Obama appointee, quelled the report and warned Carlin via
email not to spend additional EPA time on climate change. Be sure the EPA condones no dissent
to its contrived mantra of man-caused global warming, and apparently Carlin’s no exception. He
goes down with Green.15
NASA’s Dr. Roy Spencer
Former head of NASA’s Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Unit, Dr. Roy Spencer 16 has
shown clearly that the theory of man-made global warming rests on incorrect assumptions.
Furthermore, the EPA “did not fully meet the independence requirements for reviews of highly
influential scientific assessments”; and an Inspector General’s report was based on procedural,
not scientific matters. Despite his being principal research scientist at the University of Alabama
in Huntsville, Spencer is no “yes man.” Hence, he’s history.
Tom Harris
Tom Harris is likewise a marked man. An articulate spokesman for the growing camp of scientist
skeptics—i.e., “realists”—Harris challenges the increasingly discredited dogma attending climate
alarmism. Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition based in Ottawa,
Canada, 17 Harris wrote an opinion piece on the EPA’s new power plant regulations that recently
appeared in the New York Post. The title alone (“How the EPA Ignores the Public and Science”)
cinches Harris’ fate.
By now, EPA decision-makers feel quite smug about ridding the planet of undesirables. Their
attention turns to “winners of the draw,” survivors handpicked to remain safe on the proverbial
lifeboat.
Who, then, can (and will) be saved?
More to come in Part 2.
1
Sid Simon et. al. Values Clarification: A Handbook of Practical Strategies for Teachers and Students, 1972.
2
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/titanic-women-children-120413.htm. Accessed 19 August 2014.
3
One of five major documents negotiated at the United Nations Rio Earth Summit (1992), Agenda 21 serves as the
blueprint for forthcoming global eco-socialism. It was elaborated in Turkey at the 1996 United Nations conference Habitat.
4
By one estimate the world is spending $1 billion a DAY on projects that wouldn't exist if it weren't for global warming
alarmism.
5
The UN Sustainable Development (Agenda 21) Initiative specifically targets the American dream of private property
ownership that can no longer “be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals” (Agenda Item #10, UN
Conference Report), but rather must bow to interests of society as a whole.
6
According to the EPA, environmental justice is "the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of
race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental
laws, regulations, and policies.
7
It is held that a neonate nonperson (or newborn baby) has yet to achieve personhood; therefore, he or she is a viable
candidate for extermination. Death agenda proponent Dr. Edward Alfred warns that population control is simply too
important to be stopped by some “right wing pro-life types.”
8
Sustainable medicine is clear about cutting out health care for those no longer useful—i.e., retirees, the infirmed, and the
elderly.
9
It appears that non-issue racism is fast running its course. At the National Prayer Breakfast, pediatric neurosurgeon Dr.
Ben Carson exposed oversensitivity of the politically correct crowd.
Technocracy is analogous to the United Nation’s so-called “green economy,” which is the dominant philosophy within
Agenda 21.
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11
Afro-centrism is a politically correct theme, which applauds indiscriminately all that comes out of Africa while at the same
time condemning the Euro-American culture.
12
Audubon lifestyles principles to ensure sustainable golf courses address environmental conditions such as wetlands,
endangered species, degraded sites, landfills, reclamation, and cultural/historic areas.
13
The United Nations Environment Programme embraces the Wildlands Project.
14
The Supreme Court's landmark ruling in the Hobby Lobby case affirmed First Amendment rights by empowering faithbased companies to deny coverage of abortifacients in their health insurance plans.
15
To question man-caused global warming disrupts the global agenda as capsulated by the Club of Rome in The First
Global Revolution.
Dr. Roy Spencer fell out of favor for challenging validity of the Congress requested Inspector General’s EPA report.
16
17
www.climatescienceinternational.org. Accessed 13 September 2014.