Left-wing statists hate religion. Their disdain shines through at anyone or anything that hints of a transcendental nature. Except for nature itself, that is. Now that…well there’s something worth protecting! Even if it means people die. That’s just too bad. So this is what…
…an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal talks about. In “The Road to Wig-Out Pier,” the Journal highlights a struggle between Enviroreligionists in the federal government and the people of a small town in frontier Alaska. The editorial examines fierce opposition to a proposed 11-mile, single-lane, gravel road that would go through an Enviroreligionist compound, i.e. the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, to connect two small towns.
The first small town—King Cove, pop. 938—has no hospital, only a clinic, but no staff doctor. To get someone who is seriously ill or injured to a hospital, they must be airlifted to Anchorage. But King Cove’s little airstrip is unusable much (or most) of the time, so patients must be routed through the all-weather airport of another nearby town, Cold Bay, pop. 109.
The problem? A dozen people have died trying to get from King Cove to medical attention since the refuge was created in 1980. The proposed single-lane road would allow ambulances to carry sick or injured King Cove residents in any weather to the airport in Cold Bay so they can be evacuated to a hospital in Anchorage.
So which is more pressing? Dead human beings—even if it is only 12 in the last 33 years—or the problem of a single-lane gravel road going 11 miles through the forest? (Oh…one other thing: there are already 40 miles of roads inside the Izembek Wildlife Refuge, built during World War II.)
It’s not even close: Enviroreligion requires that humans die rather than cut down a few trees or inconvenience an animal to cross a one-lane gravel road. Enviroreligionists have fought like hell to stop the building of the short road, both in the courts and in Washington, DC. So far they’ve been successful.
I swear. I just can’t stand those people, living their privileged lives in DC and growing fat on taxes extracted from the rest of us, while people die in deference to their Enviroreligion. They are heirs to the great 20th century killer-socialists who also required that human beings die in service to “higher truths.”
Call me a pro-human chauvinist if you want. I think human beings are more important than trees, animals, bugs, leaves, and dirt. The Enviroreligion disagrees. So be it.
(The entirely WSJ editorial can been read HERE.)