Sarah Karlin, an editorial intern at Campus Progress, attended an event at Heritage Foundation hosting industry lobbyist and anti-environmentalist crusader Steven Milloy. Check out an excerpt of her piece exposing the hipocrisy of the speaker and the insanity of his claims.
… one might find it hard to trust the scientific credibility of a man who has spent years lobbying on behalf of tobacco and energy companies. For example, in 1993 Milloy was hired by Philip Morris and their public relations firm to defend the tobacco industry. The Americans for Nonsmokers Rights report found that in 1993 Milloy dismissed the US EPA’s studying linking second hand smoke to cancer as a “joke.”
When I asked Milloy about his credibility he became agitated and defensive. “That’s a great spin you put on that,” Milloy said. “You take some contributions to organizations I’ve been affiliated with and spin it into this advocacy for hire and I really think that’s nothing but spin. Let’s look at Al Gore who stands to make more than 2 million dollars for all his energy stuff….So when you guys start doing some introspections looking at your own motivations them you can start throwing stones at other people.”
Milloy repeatedly dodged other tough questions. When a concerned woman wearing a polar bear mask, claiming to “represent the polar bears,” asked Milloy if he believed the polar bears were being threatened, he simply laughed her off. “Well you seem to be doing quite well, you’re down here and its 50 degrees.”
Read the whole story and check out a video of the Polar Bear Ambassador here.
If I may be so bold, environmentalists do tend to resort more to regulation. I certainly do NOT believe it is a hidden agenda, it is just what most environmentalists hold as their world view. As I have read on IGHIH before, there are many ways to solve our environmental problems and often there is disagreement. I don’t think anyone has a master plot, just we all think of these problems and solutions with different eyes.