Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Idealism vs. Pragmatism

Many of us as we grow to early adulthood take an idealistic view of the world as we embrace such concepts as free speech, equality and helping our fellow men and women free themselves from the injustices of the world. But as we gain life experiences typically a pragmatism takes hold. But the remaining idealists sometimes evolve into something that is akin to a cancer; evolving into a false image of their former selves that then tries to kill the very body that supports it.

Greenpeace and its members have turned into such a disease of modern society.

This is an organisation that began with noble and just reason in its fight to save whales from extinction. Over time it changed and became more involved with a broader range of topics related to the environment. And the general population lobbied governments to create legislation to ensure that we respect the world around us in a sustainable way. And that includes the forest industry.

The attacks on Resolute show that Greenpeace has lost all touch with reality and now has become a destructive rather than constructive group; just like a cancer. Through the application of lies and strong arm techniques they are trying to kill a primary component of our national forest industry, and the last survivor of what once was a very prosperous industry in Thunder Bay.

Those residents of our area who are members of this organisation should be ashamed that they are associated with such an organisation and should lobby hard for it to return to its roots of fighting the good fight. And the rest of us need to support our local community politicians as best we can to thwart this disease before it becomes deadly.

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