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To: TimF who wrote (150170)	8/23/2002 1:34:08 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1584019

David most liberals buy in to the environmentalist agenda. Tim, you have said many intelligent things on this thread, and occasionally something stupid. But this post shows a lack of awareness that is surprising. I've often wondered why conservatives rarely show any passion; even people like Coulter and Limbaugh when they rant don't do it with any passion. If they did, listening to them might at least be interesting if not enjoyable but their monologues typically are just words said with a grating, jarring kind of sound. They don't inspire or uplift. And some like Bush can't even talk at all. To inspire you have to have passion.....without it, words are just words. Tim, one doesn't "buy into the environmentalist agenda", one feels it. Its why environmentalists are so passionate about the issue. Its something that emanates straight from your gut. And when you visit one of the many places in this country where the environment has gone amok, you feel, not think the very wrongness of the place. There are many unusual environmental events that are occurring in this country and can't easily be explained away by science. Events that when taken individually don't seem all that bad.......frogs mutating in FLA, a lack of bees one summer in the upper Midwest, individual species disappearing at a rapid rate, New England leaf eating caterpillars that normally appear every 10-15 years, suddenly reappearing every 5.......the list is a long and varied one and seems to be worsening. And then there are the environmental 'accidents' like the guy who dumped some Chinese carp in one of the ponds near you. Now all life in the three ponds must be eradicated because the threat these fish present is huge. They have a voracious appetite and within two-three years can eliminate other species within a lake. Ironically, the guy who dumped them got tired of the cost of feeding them and had no idea the damage they could cause. Stupid is as stupid does. When they have done with a lake, these fish then are able to 'walk' to another lake or waterway. I believe their only predator is not native to this country and in turn, it has no natural predators of its own here. So the only solution is to kill everything within those three ponds and hope none of these fish have escaped. Then there is the kitsu[sp?] vine in the South that is smothering other vegetation and the African bee that's invading from S. America and the fire ant making its way through the South and most currently, the mosquito carrying the West Nile virus.......these kind of accidental disasters are wreaking havoc with our environment and with our health. Someday they will learn that the damage done to are environment is directly damaging our own individual ecosystems; that both our psyche and physiology are negatively impacted when the environment is damaged; that man works best when the environment is sound and in balance; that it effects us in ways we have yet to understand. Unfortunately, we may find out too late.......and all the environmental damage could well lead to our own extinction. ted