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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (22800)9/18/2007 1:16:38 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Let's put it this way. A couple of places where I've bought houses were in fields when I got them by virtue of previous clearcutting in the far distant past. Trees came in voluntarily and before I left they were making the place so dark I had to cut some just to get daylight in.

Most Americans, particularly those in the east, live on ground that was once forested. They don't realize that THEY THEMSELVES ARE A LITTLE CLEARCUT ON NATURE, AND EACH KID THAT THEY HAVE IS A MINIATURE EXXON VALDEZ OIL SPILL. Unlike my place, which was overrun by trees because of the way I managed them, these hypocrites keep their little clearcut cleared off by mowing their automatically sprinklered lawn a couple times a week.

They just try to make themselves feel better by interfering in the legal activities of others out of pseudo concern for the environment.

Like I asked National Geographic in a letter I wrote about a recent article. The article complained that the sorry state of Ellis Island is in part due to man's neglect and part to a triumph of nature (their words). If you restore Ellis Island as advocated by the article, you are WITHSTANDING nature. "Do you stand WITH nature? Or do you WITHSTAND nature? You can't do both." Man is a pipsqueek compared to the power of nature. If we don't STAND WITH her, we are toast.

PS, most of the South has already been clearcut at least three times. Or to put it more properly, the South is on its third or fourth forest.

Hypocrites underestimate nature. I don't.
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