Why are Conservatives against Conservation?

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9 months ago

They call Conservationists %26quot;Tree Huggers%26quot;.

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Because we are Tree Haters! Rush Limbawl 67% 4 Votes

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• I looked %26#039;conservative%26#039; up in the dictionary; Favouring the presservation of established customs, values etc. and opposing innovation. Whereas conservation is something altogether different. And some of you Rodneys even seem to think that picking up litter is going to (directly) end global warming, or that ozone depletion is the same thing as global warming.
  
  You guys don%26#039;t have any right to argue over who%26#039;s fault it is. And you don%26#039;t understand there%26#039;s no time for the blame game or playing politics with this issue.
  
  In the UK the Conservative party is greener than the %26#039;leftist%26#039; party, and all parties are chasing the green vote as much as they dare. The Green party meanwhile doesn%26#039;t know whether to be pleased mainstream partty politics is starting to get the idea, or cheesed off that thier political agenda has been cherry picked to nonsense.
  
  As my Spanish friend says, GET WITH THE AGENDA. and quick.
  
  Bunch of Rodneys. 0% 0 Votes
• Because Al Gore enforces it... 0% 0 Votes
• Because they need to rape the land in order to squeeze that precious dollar out of it. 0% 0 Votes
• Liberals jump in with ideas and don%26#039;t think them through. This alcohol thing is one that just plain can%26#039;[t work.
  
  Conservatives do think things through and do want to do what needs to be done. They will accomplish more then the liberals but get little recognition for it.
  
  We know the most pressing problem is the number of people on this planet. There are three times as many as there should be. 0% 0 Votes
• I%26#039;m not. I am very much in to conservation. 0% 0 Votes
• What should be the source to produce electricity, coal, oil heavy oil, windmills, hydro damns, solar panels, nuclear power, wood burning, what would we use? There is a group of people that fight everyone of these ideas so whats the answer? If anyone would put out something that made sense, I think a lot of people would get very interested in the problem if we really have one, but I%26#039;%26#039;m tired of all the wrong information that%26#039;s being put out there by special interest groups that twist the facts. I don%26#039;t believe any of them. What effect is the suns activity on the earth and the earths core itself on global warming? What about the millions of acres of rain Forrest that is and has been cleared in the last 100 years? How many more Hydro Damns could be built in the United States and how much electricity could they produce? There are solutions to the problem but it will take pressure from all political parties to get anything done, and quit playing this silly game of always blaming the other side for all our shortcomings. Nothing is going to change until we as a nation stand united as one and demand something be done now. 0% 0 Votes
• If you are a conservative then you are for conservation by definition. If you support conservation then you have to be a conservative. That is how the words are defined. The liberals try not to use them so but if you look them up that is how they are defined in the dictionaries.
  
  Political conservatives are trying to conserve our heritage. They oppose change for changes sake. If a change will enhance our country then they will support it but you must show that change is beneficial to the nation as a whole before they will accept it.
  
  Social conservatives are much the same.
  Environmental conservatives are newcomers to the game of conservatism and forget that the country folk who live upon the land have been conserving their resources for generations and tell us how to do what we have been doing for many years. A farmer who abuses the land soon will not be able to grow enough food to feed his family. Hunters who kill off all the game will not eat next year. LOL City folk think the strangest things. 0% 0 Votes
• Ike,
  
  The premise of your question is flawed as others here have pointed out.
  
  It%26#039;s not about conservatism or liberalism. It%26#039;s about control.
  
  Ask: %26quot;Who gets to influence how you think?%26quot; This will drive your actions, buying habits, voting and what rights you are willing to give up.