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The Property Rights Report
No person shall be ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (Fifth Amendment - U.S. Constitution)
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~~~ "So great Moreover Is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. . . In vain may it be urged, that the good of the individual ought to yield to that of the community; for it would be dangerous to allow any private man, or even any public tribunal, to be the judge of this common good, and to decide whether it be expedient or no. Beside, the public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights, as modeled by the municipal law."
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The Institutionalization of the Climate Change Agenda Drives Property Rights Infringement
September 2023
On the Supposed Moral Superiority of the Native American
The Biden administration has been making noises lately about the supposed moral superiority of American Indians on environmental issues. For example, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on September 19, 2023, regarding the Indian Youth Service Corps (IYSC): “Together, we can empower the Corps to help more young people strengthen their connection to the lands and waters that their ancestors have cared for since time immemorial.”
This is just more left-wing drivel, thoroughly debunked by Nathan Descheemaeker, member of the American Property Rights Coalition (AmPRC) who works the land in Montana:
We only have 5 to 6 thousand years of recorded human history. G.K. Chesterton over a century ago opposed the evolutionary anthropologists of his day stating, "the scientist with his bone has become just as dangerous as a dog with his bone, but at least the dog does not deduce a theory from it."
The "native American" population because of being wholly in the state of nature and therefore the state of war never progressed much past subsistence living. They never even had a wheel. I'd like to take these indigenous knowledge obsessors out north of my place in the breaks and leave them with no material products of civilized man, they would not make it a week and would begin to go mad.
"Some notions that attend such recommended policies for restricting population - for example, that advanced peoples should turn parts of the territories inhabited by still undeveloped people into a sort of nature park - are indeed outrageous. The idyllic image of happy primitives who enjoy their rural poverty and will gladly forego the development that alone can give many of them access to what they have come to regard as the benefits of civilization is based on fantasy." (Hayek, 1991)
[Hayek, Friedrich A. -The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek vol. 1 THE FATAL CONCEIT, The Errors of Socialism p.126 (The University of Chicago Press, Routledge London 1991)
Indigenous knowledge also fails on its face to meet the information quality, integrity, and reproducibility standards under the Data Quality Act. European settlers on the other hand brought with them an unbroken continuity of historical record to the origin of civilized man with the scriptures and other classical literature which is verifiable, objective, reproducible, and serves as the foundation of our republic, without which we go back to the dark ages.
[Editor’s Note - Visit the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings in Colorado and learn what the ‘indigenous peoples’ did with their trash. They threw it down the mountain. Then learn what they did with their dead bodies. They threw them down the mountain, too. Ecologically conscious? Hardly. Morally superior to the white man in every way? You gotta be kidding. What a joke.]
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Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears....
- Ayn Rand, from “Return of the Primitive”
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Stunning Fish
From an article by AmPRC member Greg Walcher (former director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources):
If I told you we could recover all the endangered fish in just 15 years, how much would you pay? But wait - what if I said we could also take some frogs and snails off the endangered list. Now how much would you pay?
The shock came when questions were asked about the potential future costs, that is, the price of full implementation of all the recovery plans – the cost of removing these species from the endangered list. In one already-famous example, USFWS estimates that recovering the Oregon spotted frog will take 40 years and cost $2.8 billion....
Several recent USFWS draft recovery plans show astonishing costs, including $256 million for the red wolf, $103 million for the Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, and a combined cost of $6.5 billion for 44 listed Hawaiian species like the picture-wing fly and the Lanai tree snail. My attention, though, was drawn to the estimated cost of recovery plans for the four Colorado River endangered fish. Since their habitat is the same, the costs are similar, and the Colorado pikeminnow, once known as squawfish, has a recovery plan estimated at $179 million, and a 15-year timeline....
A 2018 status assessment estimated the fish program’s cost at $626 million, in 2003 dollars – that’s just over $1 billion in 2023....
More Climate Insanity
From AmPRC members:
Biden administration still pedal to the metal on climate change, when others have seen the light:
Right at the time the Swedish energy group Vattenfall put a stop to working on its 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas site, citing a 40% surge in project costs, the Bureau of Land Management is scrambling to rewrite regulations to reduce fees for wind and solar development on public lands. Simultaneously the Department of Interior is increasing fees for development on all onshore federal lands and cutting 13 million acres of potential oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and canceling 7 leases within the Coastal Plain of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.
How do you ‘let it burn’ and decarbonize the West at the same time?
Currently I am tracking & documenting 3 semi-local wildfires for an upcoming Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Hearing with the USDA & particularly USFS Chief Moore. The subject will basically be Where are the Rulemaking & NEPA processes that address wildfires and their suppression alternatives? An EIS on wildfire effects relative to the CWA, CAA, ESA, etc. The Gray & Oregon Rd Fires in WA are at about 21,000 total acres with a projected suppression cost of almost $6 million. The Ridge Creek Fire on USFS land is at about 4,400 acres and a projected suppression cost of $20+ million. The math is egregious. The USFS is allowing the fire to burn for prescribed burn purposes, as it allows immeasurable amounts of CO2 to penetrate the atmosphere (releasing any potential carbon capture). And so on. How does one decarbonize the West when the current "Let it Burn" policy is to "pollute" it with CO2?
Look Upon Your Works, O Ye Mighty, and Despair!
Rishi Sunak Rolls Back Multiple Environmental Policies in ‘Pragmatic’ Move That Leaves Climate Alarmists Fuming
Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Produce A Crippling Decline In Human Well-Being
Beef Company CEO Warns of Government Attacks on Real Beef – “This Is About The Administrative Deep State…”
The Biden administration has mandated the elimination of fossil fuels in the production of electricity by 2035.
September 2023
On the Supposed Moral Superiority of the Native American
The Biden administration has been making noises lately about the supposed moral superiority of American Indians on environmental issues. For example, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on September 19, 2023, regarding the Indian Youth Service Corps (IYSC): “Together, we can empower the Corps to help more young people strengthen their connection to the lands and waters that their ancestors have cared for since time immemorial.”
This is just more left-wing drivel, thoroughly debunked by Nathan Descheemaeker, member of the American Property Rights Coalition (AmPRC) who works the land in Montana:
We only have 5 to 6 thousand years of recorded human history. G.K. Chesterton over a century ago opposed the evolutionary anthropologists of his day stating, "the scientist with his bone has become just as dangerous as a dog with his bone, but at least the dog does not deduce a theory from it."
The "native American" population because of being wholly in the state of nature and therefore the state of war never progressed much past subsistence living. They never even had a wheel. I'd like to take these indigenous knowledge obsessors out north of my place in the breaks and leave them with no material products of civilized man, they would not make it a week and would begin to go mad.
"Some notions that attend such recommended policies for restricting population - for example, that advanced peoples should turn parts of the territories inhabited by still undeveloped people into a sort of nature park - are indeed outrageous. The idyllic image of happy primitives who enjoy their rural poverty and will gladly forego the development that alone can give many of them access to what they have come to regard as the benefits of civilization is based on fantasy." (Hayek, 1991)
[Hayek, Friedrich A. -The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek vol. 1 THE FATAL CONCEIT, The Errors of Socialism p.126 (The University of Chicago Press, Routledge London 1991)
Indigenous knowledge also fails on its face to meet the information quality, integrity, and reproducibility standards under the Data Quality Act. European settlers on the other hand brought with them an unbroken continuity of historical record to the origin of civilized man with the scriptures and other classical literature which is verifiable, objective, reproducible, and serves as the foundation of our republic, without which we go back to the dark ages.
[Editor’s Note - Visit the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings in Colorado and learn what the ‘indigenous peoples’ did with their trash. They threw it down the mountain. Then learn what they did with their dead bodies. They threw them down the mountain, too. Ecologically conscious? Hardly. Morally superior to the white man in every way? You gotta be kidding. What a joke.]
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Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision—i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears....
- Ayn Rand, from “Return of the Primitive”
~~~
Stunning Fish
From an article by AmPRC member Greg Walcher (former director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources):
If I told you we could recover all the endangered fish in just 15 years, how much would you pay? But wait - what if I said we could also take some frogs and snails off the endangered list. Now how much would you pay?
The shock came when questions were asked about the potential future costs, that is, the price of full implementation of all the recovery plans – the cost of removing these species from the endangered list. In one already-famous example, USFWS estimates that recovering the Oregon spotted frog will take 40 years and cost $2.8 billion....
Several recent USFWS draft recovery plans show astonishing costs, including $256 million for the red wolf, $103 million for the Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, and a combined cost of $6.5 billion for 44 listed Hawaiian species like the picture-wing fly and the Lanai tree snail. My attention, though, was drawn to the estimated cost of recovery plans for the four Colorado River endangered fish. Since their habitat is the same, the costs are similar, and the Colorado pikeminnow, once known as squawfish, has a recovery plan estimated at $179 million, and a 15-year timeline....
A 2018 status assessment estimated the fish program’s cost at $626 million, in 2003 dollars – that’s just over $1 billion in 2023....
More Climate Insanity
From AmPRC members:
Biden administration still pedal to the metal on climate change, when others have seen the light:
Right at the time the Swedish energy group Vattenfall put a stop to working on its 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas site, citing a 40% surge in project costs, the Bureau of Land Management is scrambling to rewrite regulations to reduce fees for wind and solar development on public lands. Simultaneously the Department of Interior is increasing fees for development on all onshore federal lands and cutting 13 million acres of potential oil and gas development in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and canceling 7 leases within the Coastal Plain of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.
How do you ‘let it burn’ and decarbonize the West at the same time?
Currently I am tracking & documenting 3 semi-local wildfires for an upcoming Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Hearing with the USDA & particularly USFS Chief Moore. The subject will basically be Where are the Rulemaking & NEPA processes that address wildfires and their suppression alternatives? An EIS on wildfire effects relative to the CWA, CAA, ESA, etc. The Gray & Oregon Rd Fires in WA are at about 21,000 total acres with a projected suppression cost of almost $6 million. The Ridge Creek Fire on USFS land is at about 4,400 acres and a projected suppression cost of $20+ million. The math is egregious. The USFS is allowing the fire to burn for prescribed burn purposes, as it allows immeasurable amounts of CO2 to penetrate the atmosphere (releasing any potential carbon capture). And so on. How does one decarbonize the West when the current "Let it Burn" policy is to "pollute" it with CO2?
Look Upon Your Works, O Ye Mighty, and Despair!
Rishi Sunak Rolls Back Multiple Environmental Policies in ‘Pragmatic’ Move That Leaves Climate Alarmists Fuming
- “Mr. Sunak said it was now up to opponents, including Labour, to explain why hard-pressed families should pay thousands of pounds to move faster than other countries in tackling climate change.... He told BBC Radio 4’s Today program: ‘They should explain to the country why they think it’s right that ordinary families up and down the country should have to fork out five, 10, £15,000 to make the transition earlier than is necessary’.”
Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Produce A Crippling Decline In Human Well-Being
- In fact, only fossil fuel-driven free market economies have been sufficiently productive to raise millions of people out of poverty and provide a wide array of social, health, and educational services to vulnerable members of society.
- Rocky Mountain Power’s investment in renewable wind energy provides power only when the wind is blowing.
- “We had reliable and dispatchable power in Wyoming. It was called coal-fired power plants. Why are we shutting down coal in America?” former Wyoming state Sen. Eli Bebout said.
Beef Company CEO Warns of Government Attacks on Real Beef – “This Is About The Administrative Deep State…”
The Biden administration has mandated the elimination of fossil fuels in the production of electricity by 2035.
- Currently, 60% of all US electric generation is through the combustion of fossil fuels.
- Electricity generation by wind and solar only happens when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining.
- So, where will you be when the lights go out?