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

To: pezz who wrote (811)	4/13/1999 1:56:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 36917

Probably I view the environment as religion. Well, excuse me if I and others don't practice your particular form of zealous faith. And apparently neither does Mother Nature. She has been responsible for far more extinctions and global shifts of geology and climate than anything man has yet achieved. Examples of this would be the Ice Age, Krakatoa, Mt. St. Helens, the meteorite that snuffed out the Dinosaurs and spread a layer of Iridium across the entire earth (as well as ash and soot), the Yellowstone forest fire (which, foolish humans that we are, chose not to fight until a huge percentage of that national park was scorched), volcanic "black smokers" that spew a poisonous chemical cocktail into the water, and finally, about any Force 5 Hurricane/Tornado that rip across the landscape. Once you start looking beyond the immediate and look back at the history of the earth's existence, you will find forces far more destructive that those of mankind. Forces that irreversibly alter and destroy that very nature that you consider so precious (and which I also consider mighty important as well). No, we don't have the right to irresponsibly destroy and devastate the earth or its life, but let's deal with this issue in a logical and contextual manner and leave the religiousity and extremism out. Regards, Ron