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WORRIES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT


	I have friends in the environmental movement and more friends
who  believe  ideas  they  have  gotten  from  the  movement,  but  I
personally find  the  attitude  that I  take  to be  typical  of  the
movement repellent and I find its goals for the country and the world
threatening.  The purpose of this article is to express my views in a
way that hopefully will  be comprehensible to people in  the movement
or influenced by it. 

	Expressing  these views is  made more complicated  by because
like any movement it is  composed of people with differing  attitudes
and goals.  So if some of the  attitudes complained about don't apply
to  you, ok,  but I would  be surprised  to find many  people calling
themselves  environmentalists who  wouldn't  admit  to  some  of  the
attitudes. 

	1.   The   simplest   and  most   unobjectionable   part   of
environmentalism  is objection to sewage on  beaches and other things
that everyone objects  to.  Presumably  the environmentalist gives  a
higher priority to cleaning up the beach than the mayor who has other
worries, but  this is  ok.   It is  normal for  people to  differ  in
priorities and legitimate to urge others to share one's own.