An Earth Day Salute to America’s Real “Environmentalists

Humberto Fontova

Today is Earth Day -- the last one I'll celebrate as President. Looking back over the past seven years, I'm hopeful that the work we've done will allow my daughters and all of our children to inherit a cleaner, healthier, and safer planet. But I know there is still work to do. (President Barack Obama, April 22, 2016.)

In fact, the work of genuine American environmentalists has been ongoing for much longer than seven years—more like SEVENTY plus. Alas, many of these (genuine) environmentalists belong to those insufferable rustics who “cling to guns and bibles.” To wit:  The Pittman-Robertson Act (1937) imposed an excise tax of 10 per cent on all hunting gear. Then the Dingell-Johnson act (1950) did the same for fishing gear. The Wallop-Breaux amendment (1984) extended the tax to the fuel for boats. All of this lucre goes to “protect the environment” in the form of buying and maintaining National Wildlife Refuges, along with state programs for buying and maintaining various forms of  wildlife habitat.......To Read More....