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To: tejek who wrote (138719)	8/9/2001 3:28:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1588462

The issue was has things gone too much in favor of the environmentalists; to whit, look at all the improvements in the environment. My answer is no as evidenced by all the disasters still waiting to be fixed and by the fact that improvements in and of themselves do not make things good ie. the air still sucks in LA at least a third of the year. I don't think improvements in the environment mean that things have gone to much in favor of the environmentalists not do I think continuing problems with the environment mean that things have not gone far enough. There will always be some problems and if we are doing a good job and the problems are still significant there will always be some progress. My comment was more about things going to far to the environmentalist side politically and in the media. If you oppose things like fining a man for shooting a threatening grizzly bear on his land, or support a strong property rights you are some sort of fringe ogre. And ideas like analyzing the costs and benefits of major environmental legislation, regulation, or treaties, with great care before they are implemented and then rexamining their effects later and possibly eliminating some of the regulation, do not get much traction. If an environmental law passes it is probably in force for ever. If it fails because it is not needed or is poorly designed or it goes to far, it will be back again and again until it eventually passes. Tim