Ray's Thought for the Day - Enviropreneur Camp
All I have done all day long is cook supper and write this. I didn't wake up until 2:30 PM and wouldn't have woken up then, if the dog hadn't been licking me in the face. Tha's what happens sometimes when you don't go to sleep for a couple of nights. So I probably wrote this because I'm grouchy, maybe, from reading about enviropreneurs in the paper, right after the dog woke me up.
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Whoa! Enviropreneur Camp. I just heard about this Enviropreneur Camp in Montana where the environmentally clueless and careless may go to learn envirospeak, "Free Market Environmentalism".
Okie Dokie. Here's an example of what the environmentally clueless and careless learn how to do at the camp. Let's take a hypothetical example based on a real example. There's 1000 acres of land that's just sitting around somewhere not making any money. For whatever reason the land owner has not done much on it for 30-40 years so it has lots of flora and fauna and is big enough to contain functioning natural community fragments, that is, there would be identifiable associations of the flora and fauna within the 1000 acres if anyone bothered to check them out.
But an environmentally clueless and careless enviroprenuer (or two, or group or corporation or quasi- state agency: Who the heck knows?) buys the property with a view to making lots of money from the property. "What did we learn at enivropreneur camp" the enviropreneurs ask themselves. "Oh yeah, we are better stewards of this property than anyone else could be, because we own it. We just need some incentives to be good stewards. And we have a yearning desire that everyone should feel as swell about our stewardship of this property as we do. So first off, to make everyone feel swell, we will announce to the public that our property is a "Nature Park"."
Naturally, a clueless and careless public, once they read in the newspaper or see on TV or drive by and espy the sign out front, Nature Park, enthusiastically support the new enviropreneurs decision, “Nature Park”, or most likely don’t care. Almost everyone, clueless and careless, loves nature and parks, except for nature haters, a minority, and of course those who are worried about the potential impact of the Nature Park on their property if it happens to be in the same taxing district as their property.
Public support for the Nature Park generally assured the enviropreneurs get down on the best part of all the stuff they learned at camp, incentives. "Yeah! We get incentives to be good stewards of this property" the enviropreneurs congratulate each other happily.
First on the incentives agenda is selling off 500 acres of the Nature Park so the enviropreneurs will have plenty of money to be good stewards on the remaining 500 acres of their Nature Park. That accomplished, the entrepreneurs congratulate themselves. "Yippee, now we have lots of money to make our Nature Park the best ever" and the enviropreneurs also inform the clueless and careless public, via the handy clueless and careless Media Liberal, that the Nature Park, though a tad smaller than before, will be the best ever. Everyone's happy. And that’s important, everyone should feel happy and have a positive outlook.
Next on the agenda is more incentives. "Yikes! We need some more incentives to conserve our nature park! Let's see, there are all sorts of publicly financed programs, tax exemptions and grants that will help us put in some nice environmentally friendly facilities that will make the public more comfortable and help entertain the public when they visit our nature park so they will want to return, again and again. Plus, all these programs,tax exemptions and grants will help everyone to focus on how we are saving nature. The incentives roll in for environmentally friendly roads and parking lots and buildings and water treatment facilities and sewage treatment facilities and electric utility lines and nature trails to show off the nature park to the public. The nature trails are carefully designed to avoid conspicuous intersection with the utility facilities.
“Yippee, we did it. We saved some nature and we have a nice “Nature Park. But look what’s happening. All sorts of people want to move in next door to our nature park. because it’s so natural. It sure is a good thing we built our environmentally friendly water and waste water facilities to sufficient capacity so we can share with these new comers ” the enviropreneurs happily congratulate themselves. “Yikes! But now we may need some more environmentally friendly roads.”
Best of all, the enviropreneurs accomplished all this without government oversight. Everyone's happy. And that’s important, everyone should feel happy and have a positive outlook.
As for the identifiable associations of the flora and fauna within the 1000 acres, the little natural community fragments. They are now somewhere else, maybe. Ha! Everyone’s happy.
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Except me.
Here’s a funny word in addition to enviropreneur; biostitute. Biostitutes have jobs advising the enviropreneurs about how to preserve parts of nothing, virtually. But most of their work is to help make the enviropreneurs feel good and happy about themselves.
_____
Whoa! Enviropreneur Camp. I just heard about this Enviropreneur Camp in Montana where the environmentally clueless and careless may go to learn envirospeak, "Free Market Environmentalism".
Okie Dokie. Here's an example of what the environmentally clueless and careless learn how to do at the camp. Let's take a hypothetical example based on a real example. There's 1000 acres of land that's just sitting around somewhere not making any money. For whatever reason the land owner has not done much on it for 30-40 years so it has lots of flora and fauna and is big enough to contain functioning natural community fragments, that is, there would be identifiable associations of the flora and fauna within the 1000 acres if anyone bothered to check them out.
But an environmentally clueless and careless enviroprenuer (or two, or group or corporation or quasi- state agency: Who the heck knows?) buys the property with a view to making lots of money from the property. "What did we learn at enivropreneur camp" the enviropreneurs ask themselves. "Oh yeah, we are better stewards of this property than anyone else could be, because we own it. We just need some incentives to be good stewards. And we have a yearning desire that everyone should feel as swell about our stewardship of this property as we do. So first off, to make everyone feel swell, we will announce to the public that our property is a "Nature Park"."
Naturally, a clueless and careless public, once they read in the newspaper or see on TV or drive by and espy the sign out front, Nature Park, enthusiastically support the new enviropreneurs decision, “Nature Park”, or most likely don’t care. Almost everyone, clueless and careless, loves nature and parks, except for nature haters, a minority, and of course those who are worried about the potential impact of the Nature Park on their property if it happens to be in the same taxing district as their property.
Public support for the Nature Park generally assured the enviropreneurs get down on the best part of all the stuff they learned at camp, incentives. "Yeah! We get incentives to be good stewards of this property" the enviropreneurs congratulate each other happily.
First on the incentives agenda is selling off 500 acres of the Nature Park so the enviropreneurs will have plenty of money to be good stewards on the remaining 500 acres of their Nature Park. That accomplished, the entrepreneurs congratulate themselves. "Yippee, now we have lots of money to make our Nature Park the best ever" and the enviropreneurs also inform the clueless and careless public, via the handy clueless and careless Media Liberal, that the Nature Park, though a tad smaller than before, will be the best ever. Everyone's happy. And that’s important, everyone should feel happy and have a positive outlook.
Next on the agenda is more incentives. "Yikes! We need some more incentives to conserve our nature park! Let's see, there are all sorts of publicly financed programs, tax exemptions and grants that will help us put in some nice environmentally friendly facilities that will make the public more comfortable and help entertain the public when they visit our nature park so they will want to return, again and again. Plus, all these programs,tax exemptions and grants will help everyone to focus on how we are saving nature. The incentives roll in for environmentally friendly roads and parking lots and buildings and water treatment facilities and sewage treatment facilities and electric utility lines and nature trails to show off the nature park to the public. The nature trails are carefully designed to avoid conspicuous intersection with the utility facilities.
“Yippee, we did it. We saved some nature and we have a nice “Nature Park. But look what’s happening. All sorts of people want to move in next door to our nature park. because it’s so natural. It sure is a good thing we built our environmentally friendly water and waste water facilities to sufficient capacity so we can share with these new comers ” the enviropreneurs happily congratulate themselves. “Yikes! But now we may need some more environmentally friendly roads.”
Best of all, the enviropreneurs accomplished all this without government oversight. Everyone's happy. And that’s important, everyone should feel happy and have a positive outlook.
As for the identifiable associations of the flora and fauna within the 1000 acres, the little natural community fragments. They are now somewhere else, maybe. Ha! Everyone’s happy.
_____
Except me.
Here’s a funny word in addition to enviropreneur; biostitute. Biostitutes have jobs advising the enviropreneurs about how to preserve parts of nothing, virtually. But most of their work is to help make the enviropreneurs feel good and happy about themselves.
posted by ray pistrum at Monday, June 05, 2006
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