by Jerry Agar

A little boy noticed that his sister had a chocolate bar.  He asked for half of it, and she turned him down.  He screamed to his mother that the situation was unfair.  The mother divided the candy between the two of them.  The boy then provoked a fight with his sister, causing an unpleasant scene, resulting in the mother taking the candy away from both of them.  The girl was angry and confused.  The boy was happy.

What happened?

The boy was never really all that concerned about chocolate for himself.  He just didn't want his sister to have chocolate and to be happy.  He enjoyed pushing her around.  Some people are like that.

Apparently, some of those people are "environmentalists."

In California, green power has come up against green people and a green tortoise. 

BrightSource Energy is seeking permission to erect 400,000 mirrors in the Mojave Desert.  Two dozen rare tortoises would have to crawl around the mirrors and greenie activists say that is unacceptable.

According to the Huffington Post report linked above, "In government filings, the company depicts the site near the Nevada line as far from untouched: It has been used for livestock grazing, has been crisscrossed by off-roaders and the boundary of a golf club is a half-mile away."

If a solar energy project on public land is not enough for some environmental groups, perhaps we should ask them what it is they really want.

Or maybe not.  Even when they are offered the candy bar they said they wanted, they say "No."

Maybe we should just stop listening to them.