Conservation is a Conservative Value

It's no coincidence that conservative and conservation share a root word. Conservative values and ethics demand that all respect nature while sharing this planet with plants and animals alike. History tells us that most conservation is achieved by the private sector employing competitive means to improve efficiency and to reduce cost. Not so for liberals and their especially hysterical progressive co-conspirators. Secular socialists, greens, and communists twist and abuse environmental issues as hammers to impose their radical political agenda. This is the political agenda that was politically, economically, militarily, and morally defeated worldwide.

The problem for the moderate conservative is that radical eco-extorters are so extreme and dishonest that the knee-jerk reaction to this oppressive agenda is to oppose it. And that's how radicals can then label conservatives as anti-environment. Of course the media can take an encore because it's their misrepresentations and outright lies that keep the people believing that conservatives hate the environment, the average guy, the poor, and the needy. That's about as honest as sexual predator Billy Clinton wagging his finger about "that woman."

Conservation is now the major world topic. So conservative voices are again calling for conservative solutions to liberal hysteria. Why? Because if left unchecked, liberals will destroy the world. Newt Gingrich recently wrote in Human Events.com that: "The time has come to define a fundamentally different approach to a healthy environment and a healthy economy. The time has come for the development of Green Conservatism as an alternative to big bureaucracy and big litigation liberal environmentalism." Don't forget elitist subjugation, Newt!!!

Every conservative I know cares about the environment. None I know attempt to use the environment to oppress others. True conservatives feel that every day freedoms must be supported with a large variety of diverse choices that allow the individual to make moral, ethical, and values based behavior decisions. The fewer the choices, the smaller the diversity of decisions. So a one size fits all Marxist solution to complex environmental challenges is doomed to the same abject failure as Marxist politics. The people reject someone like Al Gore, a fat, lazy, intellectually challenged, and dishonest person, demanding that they walk so that he can ride on a jet. They reject the likes John Kerry and Barbra Streisand demanding that we reduce our "carbon footprint" so they can make "footprints"a thousand times larger than an average person.

Proof again is that energy efficiency has increased and greenhouse gas emissions have moderated more under President Bush than any world leader in any country of the world at any time of human history. Why? Because this president uses incentives and rewards for clean and efficient behavior while all others use oppressive laws and penalties and even the threat of criminal prosecution. Incentives and rewards in a competitive environment achieve results never achieved by coercion and threats. So, as with all other human and natural challenges, competition with incentives and rewards for successful improvements and increased eficiencies is the only way to balance man's needs with nature's ability to support them. That's the conservative way and it's the only way to real conservation.

Only Judeo-Christian ideals of personal responsibility and self determination can build a healthy economy supported by a healthy planet. Tell me about one elitist liberal that can improve on this 2,000 plus years old concept?