Ann McElhinney presents Frack Nation
Irish journalist and documentary filmmaker Ann McElhinney, whose new project Frack Nation challenges assertions made by radical environmentalists.
Ever notice how Progressives never want to admit of progress? I grew up near the egregiously polluted Kill Van Kull, a heavily-trafficked tidal straight dividing Bayonne, New Jersey from Staten Island. The goo on the stony shore could melt the soles of your sneakers. The stench in the summer was overpowering and nauseating. So I am highly sensitive to the need to maintain a clean and healthy environment. But I’ve also got eyes, ears and a rather prodigious nose, all of which tell me that we’ve made great progress in the last four decades. Forty years ago, contact with liquid from any of the waterways from the Hudson River to the Passaic, while not exactly a death sentence, was cause for alarm. Today people kayak and jet ski on the Hudson River and in New York Harbor. And while no one will ever confuse the industrial shore of Bayonne with the Riviera, there’s now an attractive path for pedestrians and joggers, outfitted with benches and fringed with greenery. The island of Manhattan is also ringed with bike paths and lawns. This is progress! Just don’t try telling that to a Progressive.
The Bayonne Bridge spanning the Kill Van Kull. Once a repulsive, polluted swamp, this industrial shore is now an attractive pedestrian walkway.
You see, the Progressive movement is not about making society better, it’s about making society more “fair,” by which they mean more “equal,” by which they mean “equally impoverished.” Since the United States has the highest standard of living in the world, the United States is greedy and evil. Progress can only be made by making us morally pure, which can only be achieved by enforcing parity with nations whose standards of living are lower. So, “progress” in the mind of a “Progressive” is achieved when life in the United States inches closer to life in Somalia. Forget that impoverished countries do more damage to the environment than advanced societies. The environment is not the issue. The environment is the pretense for imposing economic equality with the poorer nations of the world.
This is the reason for the Liberal, Progressive, anti-capitalist energy policies which have shackled American industry, raised energy prices and unemployment levels, and stalled actual progress, which would lift people out of poverty, rather than reduce us all to an equal level of poverty. And since the environment has actually improved over the last four decades, “Progressives” can’t rely on facts to win arguments for their cause. They must invent crises, including global warming, climate change, or whatever else they’re calling it these days, in order to constrain energy resources, drive up prices and enforce global equality.
Ann McElhinney produced the film rebuttal to Al Gore, Not Evil Just Wrong
First they attacked nuclear as too dangerous, and I confess I joined that chorus in the 1970s. I felt then that the industrialists who brought us planned obsolescence should not be trusted with nuclear material. Fortunately, the American nuclear industry seems to have taken their responsibilities seriously and have earned my trust. Not so the progressives, for whom three decades without a major incident is not enough. Next they attacked coal as too dirty, despite technology to keep it clean. The Progressive tactic is always to raise the standard just above what the current technology can achieve, because for Progressives, progress is never enough. Then they attacked oil, in the most self-contradictory manner. Domestic oil is bad, because it pollutes our land and shores, better to leave the drilling to Third World countries who have the resources to do it right. Pipelines are bad because they disturb caribou. Better to transport oil across the seas on rickety, old, should-have-been-decommissioned-decades-ago tankers. Oh, and rather than drill here, giving jobs to unemployed Americans, Progressive energy policy requires us to buy oil from our enemies, giving them billions of dollars a year which they funnel to terrorists bent on destroying us. Does any of this sound progressive?
Throughout the last four decades, Progressives have extolled the virtue of natural gas. Why? Because it was clean? No! Because we weren’t prepared to use it. Now that we are prepared, with the technology to extract it affordably, the Progressives are, predictably, attacking progress.
Conservatives rebut radical environmentalists in Frack Nation
Last week at CPAC, impassioned Irish documentary filmmaker Ann McElhinney spoke about her attempt to expose the lies of environmentalists who are thwarting progress and forcing so many Americans to suffer economic misery unnecessarily. Ann and her husband Phelim McAleer are responsible for the effective rebuttal to Al Gore, entitled, Not Evil, Just Wrong. Below is a video of Ann making her case for their new project, Frack Nation.
Wife and husband team, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, producers of the conservative documentary, Frack Nation.
If you feel, as I do, that Ann and Phelim should be supported in their efforts to bring truth to the debate dominated by Left-wing extremists, I hope you’ll visit their kickstarter page to learn more about Frack Nation and the other films they’ve produced. Now is the time for all good Conservatives to come to the aid of true progress.
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