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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (23174)	10/27/2008 11:52:37 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36923

Neo, have a look at the Man in the Sun, having some fun. Really like a face laughing and winking now.... sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov You can see right through the sun to the stars on the other side [through his mouth] = I am kidding and do not REALLY think you can see through. Mqurice

To: neolib who wrote (23174)	10/27/2008 12:10:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36923

Neo, fifty years ago my parents were forced to give up their perfectly fine septic tank and pay money to connect to sewerage which took effluent and dumped it in our harbour, poisoning it and killing it. That was stupid socialist bureaucratic kleptocracy in action. The harbour is now coming back to life. When I say killing it, I mean literally stone dead with not a living thing evident, even buried in the mud. I suppose there were bacteria. For 30 years it was dead. The first life started showing again about 15 years ago [a few worms ond algae]. The various polluting sources were shut down over a decade or two. The socialists used to just dump urban waste straight into the harbour at Pikes Point rubbish dump as land-fill. The socialists allowed lead to be put in petrol which washed off the roads into the stormwater drains and into the harbours. [In NZ, the socialist are both the right and the left]. When I was 4, the harbour was seething with life. Full of fish. At 15 it was still going quite well. I am all for regulations to protect the commons and was an environmentalist before most of them were born and long before most were converted to irrational beliefs. It's annoying to have ignorant newbie Greenies lecturing me about saving the planet by recycling a supermarket bag or using paper. Of course the commons must be protected and the expression The Tragedy of the Commons is why. Mqurice