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RUSH: We go to Whitney in Roanoke, Virginia<\/a>. I\u2019m glad you held on, Whitney. Thanks for your patience.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, thanks for having me.<\/line>RUSH: You bet.<\/line>CALLER: I had a rational and intelligent argument, but now I\u2019m a little nervous. I\u2019m not sure how I\u2019m going — ha! ha! — to present it, but it seems like to me that you just dismiss the environmental concerns just right offhand, and what I\u2019m trying to figure out is: Are you dismissing the harbingers of doom and gloom themselves, or the environmental concern?<\/line>RUSH: Uhhh. Am I just missing the harbingers of doom and gloom themselves?<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. Do you just not like to listen to them talk or do you just hate environmental policy? Is it possible to be an environmentally savvy conservative?<\/line>RUSH: Sure!<\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah. Yeah. But I don\u2019t believe that there are any harbingers of doom and gloom in the environment out there.<\/line>CALLER: So you don\u2019t believe in global warming? (scoffs)<\/line>RUSH: No.<\/line>CALLER: Or that the large ozone hole?<\/line>RUSH: No. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I —<\/line>CALLER: Or that humans created the ozone, destruction of the ozone.<\/line>RUSH: No. No, no, no. I don\u2019t. Because the hole closes every year and we don\u2019t do anything to close it. <\/line>CALLER: Eh, ha ha ha.<\/line>RUSH: So how are we causing it? It\u2019s the same thing.<\/line>CALLER: Well, that whole vortex and, uh, you know, spinning earth sort of theory, and that\u2019s maybe pseudoscientific? <\/line>RUSH: (sigh)<\/line>CALLER: I just want you to clarify your position on the environment. I mean, do you hate the environment? Ha ha.<\/line> RUSH: You know, I\u2019m glad you called. I really am, and I would love to talk to you about this. <\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: So we\u2019re going to. No, I don\u2019t “hate” the environment. I don\u2019t hate anything.<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s right. You\u2019re an optimist. Ha ha ha.<\/line>RUSH: I am skeptical <\/emphasize>of liberals. <\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I am totally skeptical of liberals. I am skeptical of any group of people who wants to say that we human beings in the advanced areas of existence, in the great democracies of the world are single-handedly responsible for destroying the environment, and if we don\u2019t stop now, it\u2019s all going to go away ? poof! I don\u2019t buy that for a moment. I think the modern environmental movement is simply the latest refuge for communists and socialists who are opposed to capitalism.<\/line>CALLER: I think that\u2019s where I\u2019m confused, is the terminology. To me, “conservation” is not a liberal concept, and things like being conservative with your decisions about the environment —<\/line>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not —<\/line>CALLER: — is responsible.<\/line>RUSH: The thing you have to understand is the environmentalists are not concerned about the environment.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: The environmentalists are using the environment as a platform to attack a way of life they disagree with.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: And they\u2019re working, and it\u2019s succeeds with people like you, because after all, who wants dirty water? <\/line>CALLER: Right. <\/line>RUSH: Who wants dirty air? <\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: And the environmentalists set up if you don\u2019t disagree with them, oh you must be for pollution. I\u2019m not for pollution. I just want the facts straight. There is more pollution in the underdeveloped world than in the United States. We clean up or messes better than anyone else does.<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/line>RUSH: Well, then how at the same time with we be blamed for the destroying the planet and destroying the environment? We\u2019re doing just the opposite! We\u2019re going out of our way to protect it. We\u2019re going out of our way to do what we can to hold great and responsible stewardship over it, but normal economic or environmental cycles? For example, go look at — if you can find it, go look at — a map of the way the earth looked hundreds of thousands of years ago and you\u2019ll see the continents today don\u2019t even exist as they do today.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, sure.<\/line>RUSH: Huh?<\/line>CALLER: Sure, but there\u2019s seven billion — or six billion — more people. It seems like the cause and effect of that alone, without even the industry side of it, is going to have an environmental impact.<\/line>RUSH: Well, you know, Paul Ehrlich —<\/line>CALLER: Seven billion anything has an impact (giggles) I would think.<\/line>RUSH: (heavy sigh)<\/line>CALLER: I mean, isn\u2019t it — I just wondering, is it responsible, or wise to err on the side of caution as far as the environment is concerned?<\/line>RUSH: Look it, we\u2019re going to have a disconnect here, because you\u2019re feeling about this — <\/line>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line>RUSH: — and I\u2019m thinking about it.<\/line>CALLER: Right. Well, you\u2019re right.<\/line>RUSH: And I don\u2019t know how to get to your feelings. I don\u2019t want to destroy your feelings here. I don\u2019t own your feelings. They aren\u2019t mine. I\u2019m not responsible for your feelings, so I can\u2019t talk you out of them.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: But if you wanted to think about this rationally rather than feel about it — that\u2019s the appeal of the environmental movement. They want you to feel like, “Oh, my God, we\u2019re striking this great place!” I don\u2019t believe we have the ability to destroy it.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: Now, I\u2019ve got to take a break. Are you interested in continuing this?<\/line>CALLER: Sure.<\/line>RUSH: Okay, well hang on through the break, and I\u2019ll give it another stab. But you\u2019ve got to let me answer the questions you ask me, okay? <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: We go back to Whitney in Roanoke, Virginia. I trust you\u2019re still there?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/line>RUSH: Okay, let me just say a couple of things here, because you asked me why am I dismissing all the environmental damage and why do I believe what I believe, and I want to try to explain it to you so that, as you keep listening, you\u2019ll be able to put the comments that I make on all this into context and into perspective. <\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line> RUSH: The first thing in helping to explain my attitude on the environment. I think the environment is a political issue. I don\u2019t even “think” it, I know it. The environment is a political issue, and environmental activists are liberals, they are leftists. Well, now, you know me. I don\u2019t trust them. I disagree with them. I am suspicious of their motives. I know who the environmentalists are. I have listened to what they\u2019ve said. I\u2019ve read what they have written. I have debunked so much of what they have said. Michael Crichton has written a book called State of Fear<\/a>, in which he documents the way they lie; the way they make things up, the way they basically exist as fund-raising organizations, and they use fear to raise money. They\u2019re also anti-capitalists — and they\u2019re big government types. They want government controlling your property, what\u2019s called a “wetland” and all sorts of things. As to global warming, in 1975, Newsweek magazine had cover story<\/a> on the coming global freeze. Six years later, I\u2019m watching ABC\u2019s This Week with David Brinkley and a scientist named Michael Oppenheimer is saying, “We\u2019ve only got 20 years to stop global warming. If we don\u2019t…” and Brinkley said, “Well, can you prove it\u2019s happening now?” <\/line>He said, “No, but we need 20 more years, but we don\u2019t have time to wait those 20 years because if we don\u2019t act now it\u2019s going to be too late.” <\/line>So 20 years has gone by and the environmentalists still cannot prove that this is manmade. They cannot prove that the current warming cycle that I admit we\u2019re in, can be proved to be manmade and even man-caused. There have been too many global heating and cooling cycles long before man came along and industrialized the planet, and there have been way too many volcanoes spewing pollution that doubles the amount of the total of all the automobiles ever invented and manufactured in the world. That tells me that we human beings are very vain on one hand. We\u2019ve got animal rights people telling us that we\u2019re no different than rats and insects. We\u2019ve got the environmentalists on the other hand telling us we are so powerful, that we have the ability to destroy this which we didn\u2019t create. You asked about ozone. Do you know how ozone is created?<\/line>CALLER: You mean with coffee machines and car exhaust and all that?<\/line>RUSH: No, no, no. I mean atmospheric ozone. That\u2019s where the ozone is. Do you know how that ozone is created?<\/line>CALLER: Uh, no. Go ahead.<\/line>RUSH: The sun manufactures it, interacting with other elements in the atmosphere.<\/line>CALLER: Right, with oxygen and creates O3. Right.<\/line>RUSH: Right. So, let\u2019s assume that President Bush wanted all Democrats to get skin cancer. <\/line>CALLER: (laughs)<\/line>RUSH: So he orders the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, to destroy the ozone layer.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: We couldn\u2019t do it if we wanted to.<\/line>CALLER: If he did, it wouldn\u2019t just give the Democrats skin cancer. It would give us all skin cancer.<\/line>RUSH: Exactly. But the point is, we couldn\u2019t do it!<\/emphasize><\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: We couldn\u2019t destroy the ozone layer. We\u2019d have to put out the sun. We would have to find a way to send fire trucks to the sun and put it out.<\/line>CALLER: Then what was the point of Reagan signing the Montreal protocol ending CFC productions, or restricting it at least?<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s all irrelevant to me. The ozone hole closes. When is the last time you heard the ozone hole as a big issue?<\/line>CALLER: No, that\u2019s why I\u2019m asking you.<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s been years, and all we\u2019ve done is drive more cars, burn more fuel. We cool and do these sorts of things. The other day, some environmentalist group came out and said, “It\u2019s too late. No matter what we do, we cannot solve and stop global warming. It\u2019s too late now.” Well, my reaction to that is, if there\u2019s nothing we can do to stop it, then there\u2019s no way we could have caused it.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: Because if we caused it, we simply stopped what we\u2019re doing to cause it, and they say it\u2019s too late.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: These are just fear-mongering people who are on the left who are turning this whole issue into a political issue. You have this astronaut, Eileen Collins, and she\u2019s flying all over the world in the space shuttle. She looks down and she sees what she thinks is destruction. I think she saw development. <\/emphasize>You know, if you didn\u2019t know better, drive by a plot of land where it\u2019s all plowed up and torn up and they\u2019re getting ready to build a subdivision of homes there. You would think, “My God, what came along and destroyed this,” if you didn\u2019t know it, if you had no clue what had come along, if you didn\u2019t know that bulldozers had come in and plowed that land and dug it up in preparation for laying sewer lines and all that, to build a subdivision, you would think, “My God, we\u2019re going to hell in a hand basket.”<\/line>CALLER: Right. <\/line>RUSH: By the same token when you\u2019re flying over the earth — and I do this all the time — and you see rivers and streams after heavy rain, they\u2019re always brown. The Mississippi River is brown as it can be after a heavy rain. The idea that rivers and streams are blue these days is a figment of people\u2019s imagination based on artwork. They\u2019re not. Swimming pools are blue, and the ocean is blue, if you have a blue sky. You ever seen the ocean when it\u2019s overcast? It looks gray and green and dank and all that.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: It looks entirely different. It doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s any dirtier that day than when the sun\u2019s out and the sky is clear. But the reason this appeals to you is because nobody wants to destroy the planet, because it sustains us, and so people come along and say, ‘All these cars and all these barbecue pits and all, why, they have to be having an effect,” and your common sense says to you, when you couple it with your emotion, “Yeah, well, I think I\u2019ll cut back,” and so you think everybody should cut back and in so doing you\u2019re protecting the environment. My contention is that human beings living their lives, technologically advanced and improved at all times, in this country and around the world in democracies, are cleaning up their messes as fast as we make them. In fact, just the other day — what are we to make of this, Whitney? Some congressman or representative in northern California said, “You know what? It\u2019s not automobiles that has been causing smog. It\u2019s cow flatulence.” <\/line>CALLER: Ha ha ha.<\/line>RUSH: Did you hear about that?<\/line>CALLER: No, and California is its own country as far as that. I mean, I don\u2019t even listen to anything that comes out of California. (laughing)<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, well then why do you listen to what the environmentalists say? <\/line>CALLER: Well, again, Roanoke, Virginia, we live, it\u2019s just streams and rivers and lakes everywhere. <\/line>RUSH: Yeah? <\/line>CALLER: I live near a paper plant. <\/line>RUSH: Yeah? <\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s on the Jackson River, and if you want to fish, you\u2019ve got to fish above the plant. If you fish below the plant, there are no fish. <\/line>RUSH: But there are fish if you go above it, right? <\/line>CALLER: Right. <\/line>RUSH: Okay so, the fish are smart enough to go where they can survive. <\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s true. Wouldn\u2019t you think there\u2019s something about the plant that\u2019s killing the fish? <\/line>RUSH: Uh, no. <\/line>CALLER: No, really? <\/line>RUSH: No. Are they finding a bunch of dead fish floating in the river? <\/line>CALLER: No, they just don\u2019t live there. They\u2019ve moved away. Well, there\u2019s carp. You\u2019re not going to eat that. <\/line>RUSH: (sigh) <\/line>CALLER: I guess you could. <\/line>RUSH: If there\u2019s rampant fish dead — I keep hearing this — I want to see the bodies. I do! <\/line>CALLER: (laughs) <\/line> RUSH: I do. Look it. I\u2019m just telling you: I don\u2019t believe liberals, Whitney, and you shouldn\u2019t, either, whether they\u2019re talking about the economy, whether they\u2019re talking about abortion, or they\u2019re talking about Judge Roberts or they\u2019re talking about the environment, because it\u2019s all aimed as advancing a liberal agenda, which is largely an anti-capitalist agenda, a big-government agenda, and they want people to be as concerned about it as they can be because you\u2019ll give up some of your freedoms in order to protect the environment. When you give up your freedoms, government gets the freedoms that you had. <\/line>CALLER: But these companies that invent things to clean up the environment. I mean, that\u2019s a capitalist endeavor. I\u2019m sure they make a fortune, making, you know… <\/line>RUSH: So? So? <\/line>CALLER: Yeah. <\/line>RUSH: So what\u2019s wrong with that? They\u2019re cleaning it up. <\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s great. I don\u2019t see how it\u2019s anti-capitalism if a new company comes along with a new idea and makes a load of money off of it. <\/line>RUSH: Well because listen to what they say is the reason. They\u2019re blaming the United States for all this pollution! <\/line>CALLER: Right. <\/line>RUSH: Look at the Kyoto protocol. China is the bigger polluter than the US could ever hope to be. They\u2019re exempt from the Kyoto protocol. <\/line>CALLER: Which is ridiculous. <\/line>RUSH: Well, of course. The Kyoto protocol is nothing more than the world\u2019s attempts to get its hands into our back pocket — <\/line>CALLER: Right. And I agree with that totally. <\/line>RUSH: — and to force us to be less competitive and less advanced economically so as to level the playing field. We are the world\u2019s superpower. They\u2019re coming after us every which way they can, wanting our money with their hands in our back pacts or what have you. Look, I don\u2019t want to get sidetracked here. Let me give you my fundamental reason for this. Politics aside. <\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: And I\u2019m just going to get as personal as I can with you.<\/line>CALLER: Appeal to my emotion, Rush.<\/line>RUSH: Pardon? No, I\u2019m not going to appeal to your emotion.<\/line>CALLER: All right.<\/line>RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know where I\u2019m going to appeal to. <\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m just going to tell you why I don\u2019t believe this stuff.<\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: I believe in Creation.<\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: I believe in God. <\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/line>RUSH: I believe that the idea that human beings have the ability to destroy <\/emphasize>what we couldn\u2019t create if we had to. No human being. Start from scratch. We can\u2019t even explain the existence of the earth, scientifically. We\u2019ve got to go back to something called the Big Bang, and then we\u2019ve got to try to make guesses as to we were all spermazoid, promozoics. We came out of the ocean. We walked four legs and two legs, but nobody really knows for sure. We have these theories. There were the other day some theory was just debunked big time and I don\u2019t remember off the top of my head what it is, but the idea if you look at this planet and you look at all the changes this planet has undergone that we can document historical for thousands of years, the forces that cause change on this planet dwarf the combined efforts of all human beings today. We couldn\u2019t any more move a continent. We couldn\u2019t any more destroy a mountain. We couldn\u2019t any more drain an ocean. We couldn\u2019t any more destroy ozone. We couldn\u2019t any more raise the temperature if we were freezing to death. We couldn\u2019t steer a hurricane away from where it\u2019s headed. We can\u2019t stop a thunderstorm. We can\u2019t make a clear sky rain. We can\u2019t do one thing<\/emphasize> climatologically that we wish we could do when we\u2019re faced with disaster or when we\u2019re faced with drought. We can\u2019t make it stop raining. We can\u2019t cause it to rain. We can\u2019t raise the sea level. We can\u2019t drain a river. We can\u2019t fill a river. We can\u2019t create the water out of nothing that will fill a river that used to run robustly and now is dried up for other economic reasons or evolutionary reasons. We can\u2019t do any <\/emphasize>of these things. We don\u2019t have the capacity. We don\u2019t have the wherewithal. We don\u2019t have the knowledge. We don\u2019t have the equipment. We\u2019re basically a bunch of passengers along for the ride on this planet. The idea that we can destroy this is simply above my ability to comprehend. Look at how Eileen Collins, the shuttle astronaut, spoke of how “thin” the atmosphere is.<\/line>CALLER: Ha ha ha. I know.<\/line>RUSH: No, she\u2019s got a good point. <\/line>CALLER: Right. <\/line>RUSH: “Look at how thin that atmosphere is.” Compared to the planet itself, it is really thin. You go up above 15,000 feet you can\u2019t breathe without oxygen tanks. <\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s barely three miles. <\/line>CALLER: Yeah.<\/line>RUSH: Three miles three miles in the middle of the universe sustains us, right?<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s been around for how many hundreds of thousands of years? How many volcanoes have belched pollution into it, how many jet planes have been flying around? and yet we\u2019re just as sustained as ever. Back in 1979 Paul Ehrlich wrote a book, “Once we get to two billion, three billion people on the planet, there won\u2019t be enough food. We\u2019ll all starve.”<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: We\u2019ve got six billion people on the planet, and we\u2019re still feeding them. <\/line>CALLER: (garbled)<\/line>RUSH: Well, but it\u2019s not the fault of the planet, and it\u2019s not our fault.<\/line>CALLER: Right, right.<\/line>RUSH: It\u2019s the fault of local governments who don\u2019t give the people the freedom to live in a capitalistic free market economy.<\/line>CALLER: I agree.<\/line>RUSH: But the nations of the world that do produce food are able to provide aid when it\u2019s necessary, are they not?<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s true.<\/line>RUSH: Absolutely. The only thing gets in the way is the warlords who steal the food that we give.<\/line>CALLER: Yes.<\/line>RUSH: And of course the rock stars who think they\u2019re doing something by singing a bunch of songs on a weekend. But my point is —<\/line>CALLER: Easy for them, they\u2019re millionaires.<\/line>RUSH: Take a look at this. We orbit around the sun. We are roughly ninety-three million miles away from this sun.<\/line>CALLER: Mmm-hmm. <\/line>RUSH: If we were ninety-five<\/emphasize> million miles away from it, we wouldn\u2019t exist. It would be too cold.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s pretty delicate.<\/line>RUSH: If we were 90 million miles away from it, we would be boiling and we would never exist. The precision <\/emphasize>with which this planet functions and operates within its own solar system around its sun and not one thing — we couldn\u2019t affect this orbit if we wanted to. If we were getting too close to the sun, there\u2019s nothing we could do to stop it. It is so precise. I hear all these people talk about, “There have to be other places in the universe with life.” I\u2019m not so sure, because you take a look at the size of the universe and look at the earth as relationship to the sun, within that context. We can\u2019t even measure how small this precision is that. If we were just off, if our planet was just off a couple of million miles in the relationship to the whole universe is nothing. I mean, it\u2019s literally zero, statistically zero, and yet for this to be recreated somewhere in the universe, the odds of this — and I heard a NASA scientist say this. The odds of the life producing conditions that are so precisely <\/emphasize>met on this planet with its atmosphere and all of its ecosystems that produce the necessities for life and the sun, to find this duplicated somewhere is going to be pretty statistically difficult. I just don\u2019t believe that we have the ability to destroy the earth. Damage? Yes. Can we fix the damage? Yes. But can we stop the cycles that are going to happen regardless, the heating and the cooling and the climate and the weather? No we can\u2019t. We\u2019re not responsible for destroying the ozone because we can\u2019t create it if we did and yet the ozone hole closes. How do you explain this? You explain it by telling people…. Well, you can\u2019t explain it. The environmentalists will say, “Well, it\u2019s a natural phenomenon but the whole wouldn\u2019t exist at all if it weren\u2019t for us,” and then we had stories years ago about how islands were sinking so fast in the sea because the ozone hole and people getting skin cancer. You don\u2019t see those stories anymore. You saw them once or twice and that was it. They\u2019re trying to gin up a bunch of fear, and they\u2019re trying to get to people and make them afraid — and, by the way, when it gets to a hundred degrees in the summertime, what\u2019s the first thing people think? Oh, global warming!<\/line>CALLER: (laughs)<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s how subtle and seductive it\u2019s all been. I\u2019m just trying to tell you I don\u2019t buy any of this notion that we are causing it because we couldn\u2019t if we wanted to.<\/line>CALLER: Well, then how does the public who wishes to be informed, like myself, on environmental facts, which scientists do I listen to and which do I dismiss?<\/line>RUSH: Common sense. Common sense! Of course you can (sigh). Look, this will go on forever.<\/line>CALLER: I know, sorry.<\/line>RUSH: No, but you could certainly engage in some destructive things, but do you destroy the ability of man to survive? No. But I mean there\u2019s damage done to the planet… To use this kind of thinking that is seductive, we should never have built the first house in this country because something got destroyed to do it, something necessary to prolong life.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: They didn\u2019t want us cutting down trees now. Of course beautiful things happen when you do cut them down. You get baseball bats, you get houses, all kinds of things — and trees are a renewable resource. Common sense much the common sense, and don\u2019t forget that the people who try to make you feel guilty are a bunch of liberals and if you keep that in mind you\u2019ll have a healthy skepticism about what they say.<\/line>CALLER: That\u2019s what I wanted. That\u2019s why I called, for you to elucidate this subject for me. I feel better informed now.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m happy to have helped. I\u2019m a little long in this segment, folks. I deeply apologize, but I as host considered it to be worthwhile.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We go to Whitney in Roanoke, Virginia. I\u2019m glad you held on, Whitney. Thanks for your patience.CALLER: Oh, thanks for having me.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I had a rational and intelligent argument, but now I\u2019m a little nervous. 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