{"id":2215285,"date":"2024-04-08T03:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-cherry-blossoms-arent-safe-around-climate-activists-and-neither-are-we\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T03:33:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:33:26","slug":"d-c-cherry-blossoms-arent-safe-around-climate-activists-and-neither-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-cherry-blossoms-arent-safe-around-climate-activists-and-neither-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Cherry Blossoms Face Climate Activists&#8217; Threats &#8211; A Concern for All"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fd-c-cherry-blossoms-arent-safe-around-climate-activists-and-neither-are-we%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2215285&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u200b National Park Service\u2062 plans to cut down 300 trees in Washington, D.C., including 158 \u2062cherry \u200btrees, after the 2024 National Cherry Blossom Festival. This contradicts their mission to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-dcnr-to-close-beloved-legacy-golf-course-return-to-grassland\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania DCNR shuts down cherished Legacy Golf Course, reverts to grassland.\">preserve natural resources<\/a>. Concerns arise \u2062over the impact on the environment and future generations, as \u2064the trees are removed to construct a seawall against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-says-fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-each-year-than-the-holocaust-heres-the-truth\/\" title=\"CNN Says Fossil Fuels Kill More People Each Year Than The Holocaust. Here\u2019s The Truth\">sea-level rise<\/a>. The National Park Service&#8217;s\u200b decision to cut down 300 trees, including 158 cherry trees, in Washington, D.C. following the 2024 National Cherry Blossom Festival raises concerns about environmental \u200cpreservation. This action \u200dcontradicts the organization&#8217;s mission and sparks worries about the impact on future generations, as \u2064the trees are cleared to make way for a seawall to combat sea-level\u2063 rise.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The National Park Service \u2014 the organization supposedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/aboutus\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">missioned<\/a> to preserve \u201cunimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations\u201d\u2013 will, after the 2024 National Cherry Blossom Festival, cut down 300 trees in Washington, D.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/158-cherry-blossom-trees-will-be-cut-down-in-dc-in-effort-to-withstand-sea-level-rise-180983999\/#:~:text=After%20the%20end%20of%20this,rise%20and%20extreme%20precipitation%20events.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">158 of which<\/a> will be cherry trees. Their reason? To \u201cfight\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-i-got-a-covid-test-four-times-in-one-day-two-came-back-negative-two-came-back-positive-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Elon Musk: I Got A COVID Test Four Times In One Day. \u2018Two Came Back Negative, Two Came Back Positive.\u2019 | The Daily Wire\">climate change<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the 300 will be disposed of to make room for a reconstructed seawall around the Tidal Basin and Potomac River so D.C. can \u201cwithstand about 100 years of future sea level rise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At this point, climate change is like the dishrag punchline of a washed-up comedian \u2014 predictable and disappointing. As the bit goes, climate change is exacerbated by CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere \u2014 except that CO2 levels today are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/04\/09\/nolte-scientists-prove-man-made-global-warming-is-a-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">same<\/a> as they were <em>3<\/em> <em>million<\/em> years ago. The oceans are going to cataclysmically rise \u2014 except that in the last <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/al-gores-30-years-of-climate-errors-part-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">122 years<\/a>, the oceans have risen a grand total of eight inches with, at this rate, another 1,800 years before they reach apocalyptic levels. This must be why climate change activists like the Obamas and Neil DeGrasse Tyson keep buying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/x-users-blast-establishment-scientist-neil-degrasse-tyson-buying-condo-climate-change-flood\">beachfront<\/a> properties. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-293459889\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-975640e94e211f06cfe90c189390859f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-975640e94e211f06cfe90c189390859f\"><\/div>\n<p>The Pravda media are no different, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/158-cherry-blossom-trees-will-be-cut-down-in-dc-in-effort-to-withstand-sea-level-rise-180983999\/#:~:text=This%20spring%2C%20Washington%2C%20D.C.',consistent%20with%20climate%20change%20trends.\">insisting<\/a> the cherry trees reached their earliest peak bloom in 20 years because of \u201can abnormally warm winter, consistent with climate change trends.\u201d They scream, \u201cBe afraid! The end is nigh!\u201d while failing to mention the just-as-crazy winters from decades ago. For example, in mid-February of 1930, there was an abnormally warm 10-day period with recorded temperatures including 89 degrees Fahrenheit (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremeweatherwatch.com\/cities\/jefferson-city\/year-1930#february\">Jefferson City, MO<\/a>), 76 degrees (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremeweatherwatch.com\/cities\/burlington-ia\/month-february\/highest-temperatures\">Burlington, IA<\/a>), and 82 degrees (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremeweatherwatch.com\/cities\/richmond\/year-1930#february\">Richmond, VA<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, this \u201cunusually warm winter\u201d was not all that unusual when considering the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/10\/19\/tonga-volcano-eruption-ozone-depletion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eruption<\/a> of the underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha\u2019apai volcano in January 2022 followed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/news\/230706-ElNino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrival<\/a> of El Nino in 2023. Under the circumstances, the unusual event would have been having a normal winter in the middle of this convergence.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fraserinstitute.org\/article\/putting-the-con-in-consensus-not-only-is-there-no-97-per-cent-consensus-among-climate-scientists-many-misunderstand-core-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">common knowledge<\/a>\u201d that 97 percent of scientists agree climate change is man\u2019s fault is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/You-Lie-Omissions-Fabrications-Falsehoods\/dp\/0062347500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">about as<\/a> reliable as Barack Obama\u2019s autobiography. And the cherry on top is that we could very well be heading for an extended period of <em>cooling <\/em>caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americaoutloud.news\/global-warming-is-not-the-problem-earth-is-entering-a-new-era-of-global-cooling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">diminished solar activity<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The Park Service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/158-cherry-blossom-trees-will-be-cut-down-in-dc-in-effort-to-withstand-sea-level-rise-180983999\/#:~:text=After%20the%20end%20of%20this,rise%20and%20extreme%20precipitation%20events.\">says<\/a> it will plant a variety of new trees following the project, but why chop down 300 trees in the first place, just to start over with immature trees and needless walls to the tune of $113 million? Money and power are the surface answers. Climate change is not science, but it is big business, with the federal government doling out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/progress-report-on-president-bidens-climate-finance-pledge\/#:~:text=Total%20U.S.%20climate%20finance%20increased,million%20was%20for%20sustainable%20landscapes.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">billions of dollars<\/a> a year on the subject and the spending only increasing. The power comes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/roadshow\/news\/states-banning-new-gas-powered-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restrictions<\/a> on peoples\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/03\/travel\/traveling-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">travel<\/a> (in both cars and airplanes), international carbon taxes, attempting to prosecute \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/ecocide\/#:~:text=Advocates%20want%20to%20make%20ecocide,they%20seem%20willing%20to%20fight.&#038;text=At%20many%20moments%20in,demanded%20legal%20and%20moral%20restraint.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ecocide<\/a>\u201d as an international crime, and shutting up anyone who raises a hand to question \u201cthe science.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-077f7aeb6b7fb4d11e8a9d28a6ccb6e2 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-077f7aeb6b7fb4d11e8a9d28a6ccb6e2\"><\/div>\n<p>But there may also be a more disturbing and painfully ironic reason, both for the cherry tree demolition and the perpetuation of climate change fearmongering: the love of destruction for the sake of destruction. <\/p>\n<p>Maintaining order and enforcing justice are the bare-bones requirements for any civilization. But the real, gold-standard civilizations \u2014 the Roman Republic, Victorian Britain, and the United States up to 1963 \u2014 go above and beyond the basics by promoting the arts and sciences and encouraging what de Tocqueville called the manly passion for equality \u2014 encouraging each individual to be the best he can and reach full, 100 percent capacity. <\/p>\n<p>Look at the feats of architecture or entire artistic movements like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.re-thinkingthefuture.com\/architectural-styles\/a3020-10-example-of-art-deco-architecture-in-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Art Deco<\/a>. Look at the accomplishments of Dickens, Frost, Hemingway, Tennyson, Disney, and Ford in the arts or at the Hoover Dam, the moon landing, and the rebuilding of Europe and Japan after 1945 \u2014 a civilization is supposed to <em>create<\/em> with purpose, and what it creates has to be good and beautiful. It needs to fill and lift the soul. Even dads in their garages were, once upon a time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-demise-of-the-garage-inventor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">encouraged<\/a> to manifest themselves in this way.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that to the regime under which we currently live. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qi6cssDM63U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">works of art are attacked<\/a> \u2014 in some cases <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScooterCasterNY\/status\/1766113531433230615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">completely destroyed<\/a> \u2014 with only a whimper of counter-energy. In fact, when the suggestion is made to make beautiful things again, it\u2019s decried as <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2020\/02\/trump-classical-architecture-executive-order.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dangerous and fascist<\/a>. Our institutions do worse than nothing \u2014 they aid and abet this mindset. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d4b28721bd6bee42ed5770f8fafccafd fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d4b28721bd6bee42ed5770f8fafccafd\"><\/div>\n<p>Look at the National Endowment on the Arts and Humanities, whose prime job is no longer to inspire and push people to the stars, but to applaud the latest manifestation of the zeitgeist. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openthebooks.com\/assets\/1\/7\/OpenTheBooks_Oversight_Report_-_National_Foundation_on_the_Arts_and_Humanities_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">These include<\/a>: plays with \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d themes; Shakespeare performances that showcase an anti-Trump bent; \u201cqueer\u201d theatre; mime performances about racism; an art exhibit dedicated to the life of Yuri Kochiyama, who once claimed Osama bin Laden as one of the people she \u201cadmired\u201d; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2017\/07\/15\/from-cactus-theater-to-the-met-us-government-pours-hundreds-of-millions-into-well-heeled-arts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">theatre performances<\/a> that allow people to \u201ccommune\u201d with a cactus. The education system does its part by graduating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/06\/21\/1183445544\/u-s-reading-and-math-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-decades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fewer and fewer<\/a> students who can read and add, meaning fewer students who can differentiate between art and slop. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, most acts of creation involve some destruction; our own Republic was created by destroying the British Empire circa 1763. And, oftentimes, the destruction that does take place will be a compromise to prevent something even worse. But<em>, <\/em>destruction for the sake of itself \u2014 or for the sake of a fiction \u2014 threatens what is good, instills fear, and is a sign that a civilization is in decline. <\/p>\n<p>Fear is the antithesis of hope \u2014 the mind-killer that eventually dissolves our humanity into a spineless glob, eager to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jwsherrod\/status\/1766120264331321379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hand over the keys to the algorithm<\/a>. Whether it\u2019s through skewed warnings about the end of \u201cdemocracy\u201d or the claim that the planet could burst into flames and floods at any moment, the Borg is determined to control our lives through fear. This is why, in the eyes of the elites, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/23\/by-discarding-religion-and-tradition-modern-art-turns-men-into-morlocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beauty itself<\/a> is too dangerous. It causes people to dream, to push themselves, and, at its highest, imparts <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GMQTzYp756o?si=-OKk7jsmRCKJtm_1&#038;t=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hope<\/a> \u2014 it <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GMQTzYp756o?si=-OKk7jsmRCKJtm_1&#038;t=18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatens<\/a> their ability to wield fear. <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, beauty \u2014 from an Art Deco building to a blossoming cherry tree \u2014 makes us human. But that is what the Borg cannot allow, at any cost.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5cc7128f2228b90c352596ee0033b5d9 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5cc7128f2228b90c352596ee0033b5d9\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 2024 National Cherry Blossom Festival, the National Park Service plans to remove 300 trees in Washington, D.C., 158 of which are cherry blossoms. This action contradicts the organization&#8217;s mission to preserve natural and cultural resources, raising concerns about the impact on the environment and future generations&#8217; enjoyment and education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1686,"featured_media":2215286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/andy-he-PuJc2Sodi94-unsplash-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/andy-he-PuJc2Sodi94-unsplash-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2215286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}