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To: Toby Zidle who wrote (50504)5/26/2004 3:36:45 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Toby, environmentalists seem to be against everything. These days, it takes about a decade for a road to be built in New Zealand. The whole second world war was fought in less time.

The whole environmental bureaucratic and judicial process is absurdly expensive and lengthy. Private property is confiscated for public purposes. Trees are more sacred than humans these days, with greater fines and even prison sentences for murdering privately owned trees, though emancipation of trees means one doesn't own trees on one's own property any more than one can own slaves.

I'm all for environmental protection, but not for legalistic bureaucratic bossy-britches gravy trains.

Environmentalism is a religion, with Gaia thrown in as the holy mother, complete with dogma, high priests, excommunication, heresy trials, exorcisms and burnings at the stake of the guilty - though the burnings are problematic due to greenhouse gas emissions.

Coal mining means digging dirt. All that's needed is to stop the sediment from polluting waterways. That's easy enough. What's required is posting of a bond sufficient to ensure the mining company doesn't pollute. It's no use waiting until they make a mess then declaring themselves bankrupt.

Mqurice

PS: <"coal mining is clean." You can say that, but environmentalists don't buy that. > I am an environmentalist. dictionary.reference.com Though maybe you mean a baptized one, with communion having been taken. I don't agree with definition 2 regarding intellectual development.
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