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[https://sites.google.com/site/dralberteburke/the-burke-center-for-environmental-and-international-studies The Burke Center for Environmental and International Studies]<br>
[https://sites.google.com/site/dralberteburke/the-burke-center-for-environmental-and-international-studies The Burke Center for Environmental and International Studies]<br>
[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9p4MWhDfKq4ia99uaLkMEgCCksBzTw8ZQkYUw_WBguahAv5hI-hGcGwjizmPrINTgxv9HZJrv5Fc99W_GCMMj0ThDNOo40G6MgPDNreRkAl3PVBkcvc_8c8CHMXe66AbsQ=w1280 Hartford Times article 1956] — showing Dr. Burke's advocacy of resource conservation long before many other environmentalists<br>
[https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9p4MWhDfKq4ia99uaLkMEgCCksBzTw8ZQkYUw_WBguahAv5hI-hGcGwjizmPrINTgxv9HZJrv5Fc99W_GCMMj0ThDNOo40G6MgPDNreRkAl3PVBkcvc_8c8CHMXe66AbsQ=w1280 Hartford Times article 1956] — showing Dr. Burke's advocacy of resource conservation long before many other environmentalists<br>
<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://sites.google.com/site/dralberteburke/environmentalist Environmentalist]</span>
The excerpt below from <mark>''Enough Good Men'' [Nov 1962]</mark> in the <mark>chapter ''Dirt, People and History—I''</mark> is a fine example of how Dr. Burke related historical events to the environment around us. The only aspect missing in this merely the printed word, is the timing and the inflection in the way Dr. Burke presented it: <mark>Origin of "A Pact With the Unborn" —</mark>
    That kind of freedom grew among a people with <mark>elbowroom</mark>; few Americans in a big land. With plenty of elbowroom, twenty-three million Americans back in 1889 were free to turn their Oklahoman upside down <mark>irresponsibly</mark>; and they didn't mind too much when the United States government stepped in to help them. Today's much larger American population has less of that "elbowroom," on farmlands, in mines, in good water, good air, or in any natural resource. Today's American has less, and poorer quality resources to work and live with. We are no longer free to do as we please with them; but many among us today still mind very much that, since stepping in to help deal with problems like that emergency in 1890, the government has never really stepped out of what were once our private affairs.
    This <mark>resentment</mark> has led to a new parlor game in this country during the <mark>last thirty years ['30s-'50s]</mark>, a dangerous <mark>game of name-calling</mark> called "<mark>creeping socialism</mark>." It is played by too many Americans today who <mark>simplify things too much</mark>. Often they <mark>know little to nothing</mark> about the kind of American history made by <mark>irresponsible men who forced the government into what were then our private affairs</mark>. That record clearly <mark>shows what happens when individual Americans misuse their private affairs by making them public problems</mark>. When that point is reached, the government always steps in.
    Americans who play this dangerous new <mark>game of "creeping socialism"</mark> see that government, their <mark>government, as one of the greatest dangers to our future as a free people</mark>. In doing so they <mark>misuse the word "socialism"</mark> and they <mark>misread their own history</mark>. The <mark>problem has never been "creeping socialism" in our American government. It has always been creeping irresponsibility among too many Americans</mark>.


  <html><div class="left vid margin-r" style="width:160px; clear:both;"><div><iframe width="150" height="80" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hwqdQ0SkjQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>Daniel Boone (TV series) — theme song</div></html>Elbowroom was a prominent theme in early 20th century poem ''Daniel Boone'' by American poet Arthur Guiterman.
  <html><div class="left vid margin-r" style="width:160px; clear:both;"><div><iframe width="150" height="80" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8hwqdQ0SkjQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>Daniel Boone (TV series) — theme song</div></html>Elbowroom was a prominent theme in early 20th century poem ''Daniel Boone'' by American poet Arthur Guiterman.
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=="Creeping Socialism"==
=="Creeping Socialism"==
<span style="font-family:sans-serif; font-size:120%;">[https://sites.google.com/site/dralberteburke/environmentalist Environmentalist]</span>
The excerpt below from <mark>''Enough Good Men'' [Nov 1962]</mark> in the <mark>chapter ''Dirt, People and History—I''</mark> is a fine example of how Dr. Burke related historical events to the environment around us. The only aspect missing in this merely the printed word, is the timing and the inflection in the way Dr. Burke presented it: <mark>Origin of "A Pact With the Unborn" —</mark>
    That kind of freedom grew among a people with <mark>elbowroom</mark>; few Americans in a big land. With plenty of elbowroom, twenty-three million Americans back in 1889 were free to turn their Oklahoman upside down <mark>irresponsibly</mark>; and they didn't mind too much when the United States government stepped in to help them. Today's much larger American population has less of that "elbowroom," on farmlands, in mines, in good water, good air, or in any natural resource. Today's American has less, and poorer quality resources to work and live with. We are no longer free to do as we please with them; but many among us today still mind very much that, since stepping in to help deal with problems like that emergency in 1890, the government has never really stepped out of what were once our private affairs.
    This <mark>resentment</mark> has led to a new parlor game in this country during the <mark>last thirty years ['30s-'50s]</mark>, a dangerous <mark>game of name-calling</mark> called "<mark>creeping socialism</mark>." It is played by too many Americans today who <mark>simplify things too much</mark>. Often they <mark>know little to nothing</mark> about the kind of American history made by <mark>irresponsible men who forced the government into what were then our private affairs</mark>. That record clearly <mark>shows what happens when individual Americans misuse their private affairs by making them public problems</mark>. When that point is reached, the government always steps in.
    Americans who play this dangerous new <mark>game of "creeping socialism"</mark> see that government, their <mark>government, as one of the greatest dangers to our future as a free people</mark>. In doing so they <mark>misuse the word "socialism"</mark> and they <mark>misread their own history</mark>. The <mark>problem has never been "creeping socialism" in our American government. It has always been creeping irresponsibility among too many Americans</mark>.
     I have listened to communists and other groups that can only be called enemies, accuse us of the worst intentions, the most inhuman ways of doing things, as the most dangerous people on earth, to be stopped and destroyed at all costs... But nothing I have heard in or from those places around us compared with the experience I had <mark>in the Dallas home of an American, whose hate for this country's leaders, and the way our institutions worked, was the most vicious, venomous and dangerous I have known in my life</mark>. No communist ever heard, no enemy of this nation has ever done a better job of degrading or belittling this country. <mark>That American was one of this nation's richest and most powerful men!</mark>
     I have listened to communists and other groups that can only be called enemies, accuse us of the worst intentions, the most inhuman ways of doing things, as the most dangerous people on earth, to be stopped and destroyed at all costs... But nothing I have heard in or from those places around us compared with the experience I had <mark>in the Dallas home of an American, whose hate for this country's leaders, and the way our institutions worked, was the most vicious, venomous and dangerous I have known in my life</mark>. No communist ever heard, no enemy of this nation has ever done a better job of degrading or belittling this country. <mark>That American was one of this nation's richest and most powerful men!</mark>
     It was a very special performance by <mark>a pillar of the American community, who influences things in his community</mark>. It was a very special performance because in that living room during his performance - in which <mark>he said things had reached the point where there seemed to be 'no way left to get those traitors out of our government except by shooting them out'</mark> during that performance, there were four teenagers in that room to be influenced. His views were shared on November 22, 1963.
     It was a very special performance by <mark>a pillar of the American community, who influences things in his community</mark>. It was a very special performance because in that living room during his performance - in which <mark>he said things had reached the point where there seemed to be 'no way left to get those traitors out of our government except by shooting them out'</mark> during that performance, there were four teenagers in that room to be influenced. His views were shared on November 22, 1963.
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