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To: teevee who wrote (22778)	8/19/2010 10:36:53 AM
From: Eric	Respond to of 86356

Well... You are entitled to your "opinion".

To: teevee who wrote (22778)	8/19/2010 10:48:25 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 86356

they are enviro-statists For the Statists, Earth must come first, before man. If Earth must come first, Levin asks, is not man expendable? Levin calls the Liberal approach to environmental issues “enviro-statism.” According to Levin, enviro-statists gain power from public fear. During widespread health emergencies, the people expect the government to act despite traditional limitations of governmental authority: “The more dire the threat, the more liberty people are usually willing to surrender” (p. 114). Laws are created and implemented to help protect the population from health risks that, according to Levin, are miniscule next to the amount of publicity they are given: “examples of this pathology are numerous and include such “scares” as alar, sweeteners, bird flu, swine flu, dioxins, E. coli, listeria, the Ebola virus…All were blown into huge panics, far beyond the actual scope of any health threat” (p. 115). An early example of environmental misinformation was DDT. While it actually saved millions of lives by protecting from malaria and typhus, according to Levin, because of a book by Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring.” In the book, DDT is blamed for the rising rate of child cancer. According to Levin, DDT has never been directly linked to the death of a human. DDT was still banned in 1972 though in 2006 the WHO announced it would again use DDT to control malaria outbreaks. Had DDT been used in third world countries to control the spread of malaria, millions of humans could’ve been saved in the years of this chemical’s banning. Enviro-statists believe that man is no better than any other living organism, which “preaches human regression and self-loathing” (p. 121). The government now controls the flow of water in toilets, has banned incandescent bulbs by 2014, and statists have attacked “lawn mowers, chainsaws, leaf blowers, and barbeque grills” as environmental targets (p. 123). hubpages.com

To: teevee who wrote (22778)	8/23/2010 8:04:18 PM
From: russet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Sockeye are back in possible record numbers,...who can we blame,...global warming? cooling? santa? :-) RECORD RETURNS ON MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL CERTIFIED FRASER SOCKEYE FISHERY AND VERY TASTY FISH newswire.ca VANCOUVER, Aug. 23 /CNW/ - "Fraser River sockeye returns look set to top 20 million fish, and could go to 25 million, making it the second, possibly even the largest run in 60 years," said independent fisherman and long time Pacific Salmon Commission Fraser Panel member Mike Griswold. "This vindicates our long quest to obtain Marine Stewardship Council certification that Fraser sockeye is well managed. We are thrilled." Last year, Fraser sockeye failed to return in the numbers expected, prompting Fisheries and Oceans Canada to close the fishery amid claims that it was commercially extinct. "2010 has proved that when environmental conditions are good, Fraser sockeye is enormously resilient. Management remains extremely cautious with harvest rates at less than half the levels of the recent past in order to rebuild weak populations," said Griswold. Eminent UBC fisheries scientist Carl Walters notes that the problem in 2009 was extremely poor marine survival of the fish in 2007 when they went to sea. "Very low numbers of fish made it through the Georgia Strait, and those that did had very poor growth. And there were several species that had the same poor growth pattern. So we think it was just a one-off bottleneck in the survival during their life in the ocean." Walters goes on to add that returning sockeye could be harvested at much higher harvest rates than DFO has allowed over the last 15 years, including this year, without detriment to long term productivity. According to Griswold, MSC certification has helped keep prices to the fishermen fairly high because of international demand for sustainable seafood products. "MSC certification has meant more than $10 million to us by letting us market our fish to high value niches domestically and internationally." As harvests increase, Griswold, said prices will come down, making it a good buy for consumers. Chef Robert Clark of the renowned Vancouver seafood restaurant "C" said the fish currently harvested en route to the Fraser, is "outstanding, just the right amount of fat and oil content, making it the best sockeye I have ever seen." Christina Burridge of the Canadian Pacific Sustainable Fisheries Society added that MSC certification with its action plan for improvement and rigorous annual public audits, "is the best means to ensure that management responds to environmental conditions so that we have more record runs in the future. "Fraser River sockeye is back."