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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 235685" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>I’d love for someone to tell me when was the precise moment that environmental conservation flipped from being a conservative value to a liberal one. Protection for the environment would seem relitive to the title "conservative"—apt to conserve ones resources, ones traditions, resistant to change. What could be more conservative than acting to preserve and protect and, when necessary, restore the environment? The greatest environmentalist ever to serve as President of the U.S. was conservative icon Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt did it himself, with the stroke of his pen, because he thought it the just and responsible thing to do. </p><p>If you dropped from Mars onto the American scene, nothing would seem more natural than to assume that environmentalism would be a conservative enthusiasm. Among other obvious things, <em>conservative</em> and <em>conservatism</em> share the same grass roots definition with <em>conservation</em> and <em>conservationism</em>, and while conservationism and environmentalism may not be identical, they are clearly blood relatives.</p><p> </p><p>For the religious non-believers,the stories of the Bible contain a great deal of wisdom and truth, as do those older myths from other cultures, but to look to the Bible for a scientific understanding of the way the world works is absurd. Why can’t we look to religion for our spiritual needs, and look to science for our more practical concerns? For many religious people, especially the most zealous and devout, reconciling their faith with science is sacrilege. Fortunetly, not all religious conservatives feel that way. Some are behaving reasonably and prudently, and joining with scientists to raise awareness of global warming and encourage measures to fight it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 235685, member: 9859"] I’d love for someone to tell me when was the precise moment that environmental conservation flipped from being a conservative value to a liberal one. Protection for the environment would seem relitive to the title "conservative"—apt to conserve ones resources, ones traditions, resistant to change. What could be more conservative than acting to preserve and protect and, when necessary, restore the environment? The greatest environmentalist ever to serve as President of the U.S. was conservative icon Teddy Roosevelt. Roosevelt did it himself, with the stroke of his pen, because he thought it the just and responsible thing to do. If you dropped from Mars onto the American scene, nothing would seem more natural than to assume that environmentalism would be a conservative enthusiasm. Among other obvious things, [I]conservative[/I] and [I]conservatism[/I] share the same grass roots definition with [I]conservation[/I] and [I]conservationism[/I], and while conservationism and environmentalism may not be identical, they are clearly blood relatives. For the religious non-believers,the stories of the Bible contain a great deal of wisdom and truth, as do those older myths from other cultures, but to look to the Bible for a scientific understanding of the way the world works is absurd. Why can’t we look to religion for our spiritual needs, and look to science for our more practical concerns? For many religious people, especially the most zealous and devout, reconciling their faith with science is sacrilege. Fortunetly, not all religious conservatives feel that way. Some are behaving reasonably and prudently, and joining with scientists to raise awareness of global warming and encourage measures to fight it. [/QUOTE]
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