The start of this thread was that conservatives are not environmentalists and liberals are. The question was asked why that is so, as if it is.
I see the most outspoked 'environmentalists' driving cars more than anyone else. (California) I see the most outspoken of the outspoken, the Hollywood 'elite', talking environment as they walk to their private jets... PETA members screaming on their way to a steakhouse or a huge banquet. I saw an 'environment' President cut down a century old tree on the rim of the Grand Canyon to take a picture. An extreme 'environmentalist' vice president endanger a whole river system for a picture. Farmers, who live by being real environmentalists, have been put out of business by know-it-all city dwelling environmentalists who think their food comes from the grocery store.
Does industry pollute? Some do and some don't. Most heavy industry, which we have very little anymore because of environmental regulations causing out of control costs, will pollute. How many liberal environmentalists buy cars, or boats or houses or appliances?
Environmentalism and realism must go hand in hand.
The conservatives, religious or not, are not for dirty water or air or poor education nor any of the other things the left accuses them of. The conservatives, religious or not, think that action is more important than words.
Both political parties bow down to interest groups. Both sides are run by money. The big difference is that the conservatives spend their own money and the left spends the money of others.
I'm not surprised that real Christians are pushing environmental issues, they always have... maybe not as a group but as individuals.
Statistics can 'prove' almost anything, but I remember right after the Mt. St. Helens eruption that there was more pollution put into the air by that eruption than had been put into the air by industry in the last 100 years.
By the way, we had 17 inches of 'global warming' here yesterday!
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