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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (85)	8/28/2000 1:48:41 AM
From: pezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Listen Ron trying to categorize all of the ecological disasters and compare man's activities to Natures is a task that I haven't the time for . Let me just point out a few things. I don't care about Mt.St Helens or what ever.One hundred years from now only a trained scientist will be able to tell it happened. The same for these fires. For all practical purposes the same could be said for the ice ages......More time of course but Nature heals herself. <<Most damaging of all human activities is causing loss of habitat. Actually, that's quite incorrect.>> No this correct. this is far and away the most damaging aspect of man's activities. According to all environmental groups. The fact that some species such as deer and coyotes have flourished does in no way make up for much greater losses in other species.........Common sense will tell you that there is a greater diversity and larger bio-mass in a forest than a city. <<Nothing man has ever built has proven invulnerable to erosion or any other of nature's slow grinding destructive forces>> LOL...... Except of course that we keep rebuilding it! <<Besides, haven't you ever heard of fish ladders? ?>> Total failure! Along with trucking the young salmon downstream etc.This is the reason some species of salmon are on the verge of extinction today . Today there is serious consideration of tearing down dams for the very reason that all these programs have failed . <<Before the white man came to America a squirrel could have traveled from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi without ever touching the ground.>> Clearly you misunderstand my point here. The above was meant to point out that we had continuous forests from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi.......What do we have that compares to this today? I do believe that the rain forest is well over 100 million years old. You're fighting a losing battle here Ron . Let's look at it this way . 500 years ago the white man came to the Americas. Would you dare try to equate the condition of the environment then to it's current state?........With a straight face that is. Nature brought us to that state over millions of years. Man has done his dirty work in 500 years . <<undertake a massive genocide of the developing world population, >> Just a little birth control would do the job..... Thank you.