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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: pezz who wrote (59)8/24/2000 10:26:12 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 10042
 
Natural fires although of short term environmental concern are not the real threat to our wild lands and the wildlife that lives there.

Human activities are.

Hey Pezz, here's a challenge for you.

Name for me one human threat to nature's wilderness and wildlife that isn't replicated in one form or another by Mother Nature itself. (eg: Hunters killing wildlife for food and fun, Cats killing mice for food and fun)

In my opinion, nature herself is the most destruction force on this planet. She has been responsible for altering weather conditions over the past million years that have resulted in numerous extinctions and mutations. Nature has temporarily destroyed uncounted acres of habitat through fire and volcanic activity such as the explosion of Mt. St. Helens. Just think of all the air pollution that is being created right now as a result of those forest fires.

And you know once in a while nature even relies on explosive power that rivals the largest Nuclear weapons ever created or tested by mankind. You can look back to the fireball over Tunguska in 1908 that flatten hundreds of square miles of Siberian forest, killing everything within its radius. Or how about Krakatoa that sent ash and poisonous greenhouse gases into the air in such a quantity that 1883 was referred to as "the year without a summer".

What bothers me about liberals like yourself is that you secretly are on a path of self destruction. You believe that mankind is the only devastator of the environment and thus somehow a criminal who must face justice at the hands of a victimized Mother Nature, maybe to the extent that we have to kill ourselves off so that Nature can exist without us.

But the reality is that Mother Nature victimizes herself and her creatures. She does everything possible to kill off all of her creatures, either with tornadoes, fire, or any number of predators. Survival is not a right, not even for us. It is something that we insure through our own actions. There is NOTHING that mankind does to this planet that isn't reflected in nature itself. But life goes on, nature recovers and regains it's ecological equilibrium.

If you think human activities are such a threat, look at how you have derived your lifestyle from those very same activities. Think about the metal used in your home and car that was derived from mining. Think about the wood and paper that was derived from our forests. And ponder how the plastics in your computer were derived from oil pumped from drilling rigs on the North Slope of Alaska. But then dwell upon how the electricity that you are using on that computer may well be derived from an hydroelectric dam blocking the "normal" flow of water.

Your very activities RIGHT NOW are impacting the environment Pezz. But unless you want to turn into a eco-terrorist like Theodore Kascynski, you will have to learn to live with your guilt and create the conditions where man and nature can find an equilibrium of our own that ensures that we disturbed as little as possible, but we still recognize that human's have as much a right to survive and prosper as any other creature within Nature.

I can guarantee you that no other animal in nature would concern themselves in the least about how much damage they do in the name of ensuring their survival.
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