Note to Environmentalists-God Provides via the Entrepreneur

SHans Küng’s Malthusian Moment - The Acton Institute
Samuel Gregg Ph.D in answering Fr. Hans Kung's recent article makes an interesting point.

What Ehrlich and others who have imbibed the “overpopulation” Kool-Aid perennially discount is humanity’s entrepreneurial genius. The economist who did the most to highlight this point and discredit Ehrlich’s thesis was the late Julian Simon. In his book, The Ultimate Resource (1981/1996), Simon illustrates that the price-rises associated with increasing scarcity of a desirable resource generate incentives for entrepreneurs to discover more quantities of that resource, more efficient uses of that resource, and, eventually, substitutes for that same resource.

I have attended two meetings in our local diocese regarding environmental stewardship and they have always pointed to some evil business doing harm to the poor in their lust to make a profit. The story is one-sided (the horrible bottle water industry and agribusiness) and does not talk about the needs of the greater community including the poor that have been met. A return to feudalism would cause masses to starve, where today we have an abundant food supply. Our major problem is the distribution chain that gets interrupted by political corruption, war and natural disasters. Food is affordable and people do not need to spend their extra limited resources on shovels, seed etc. instead of shelter etc. Bottled water is a way to get water to areas of natural disaster, but it can remain on a shelf for a limited time. It needs to be moved in a profitable manner. People are not forced to buy it. The creation of the school lunch programs were influenced to a great degree by farm subsidies, two programs advocated by the social justice crowd. Yet, they attack the products that link the two. In a place like Santa Clara County, where the social engineers have pushed the population into areas of great density and have removed open space in a large extent from public use and taxation, where would the school lunch program find the locally grown foods and dairy in adequate supply without agribusiness of the Central Valley?
America has led the way in cleaning up its environment with its fostering of private sector innovation.We stand to lose our edge with the current government attitude that business and finance are evil. We are biting off the hands that truly feed us.

Maybe the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change Should Catechise Algore

Welcome to ManBearPighaven: the lovely new home that your carbon taxes bought – Telegraph Blogs
Another property of mansion like qualities. Perhaps he should get some spiritual direction from someone who took the pledge and signed the covenant. Of course, maybe he might finally admit that this is a case of edukating for a false premise that makes people feel if they contribute to the noncause they have done something without really doing anything. Algore is a man for the well-educated duped class of society that has their ability to reason clearly in the deep freeze.

Alinsky loving groups are not going away anytime soon.

The Social Action Summer Institute Program Peacebuilding for the 21st Century will feature our local bishop.  Sadly, it appears to be yet another booster shot to the community organizing bug for political action and lobbying....including CCHD, PICO, and Catholic Charities.  Nice to know our diocese will be paying for the social.
Instead of building a new world order or utopia, it would be nice to see Catholics building an army of the New Evangelization to catechise poorly catechised Catholics and new Catholics.  For all the outreach programs for immigrants, why aren't our Catholic Churches in California overflowing with Catholics in the pew?  Why aren't our CCD (don't correct my reference...that is how we all know what to call them and the name works) programs operating morning, noon and night?  Why aren't they the best financed programs of the dioceses and parishes?  Where are our priorities?  Are we existing to be a huge lobbying program for more collectivist programs or are we here to propogate the faith to any and all who are interested.  Why are we still trying to push the 70's model that seems to lead people to the impression that you just have to be a nice person instead of a believing person who demonstrates it in every conscious act?  Why do our parishes and their schools worry about being too Catholic as if that is a bad thing?  Wouldn't it be nice if PACT actually stood for People Attending Church Today and lobbied for more people to attend daily Mass or People Attending Confession Today to encourage more Catholic to grow stronger in the faith through the Sacrament of Reconciliation?  Just think how that would recharge the community spirit when the faith would flourish when people would again "grow where they are planted".  "Oh, but that is too Pollyanna, that would never work," is the suspected response we would get from the community organizers.  No, they by their actions say we need the action of the state to get that kind of response.  One would suspect that they thing Rome and its faithful with their clarion call for the New Evangelization are well-meaning, but naive.  One would suppose that is how the wider society felt about the Apostles in the newly born Church.  Bring on the New Evangelization movements.  We need them.