Re: A few points...
Posted by curt on May 23, 2002 at 01:34:35:
In Reply to: A few points... posted by hank jr on May 22, 2002 at 17:45:23:
Since you’re a betting man, can you to name one environmental act that has come down the pipes from George’s office in the last year that hasn’t benefited development and expanded and accelerated resource extraction? Grazing, Mining, Timber, Waste storage and incineration, and other Commercial and Residential Developments. Look who takes the most money from all the biggest corporations or industries that gobble up wilderness. These industries overwhelmingly fund Republicans over Democrats and I don’t need to tell you about how money works in politics. Not that the Democrats won’t take money from wherever it comes. I was hoping that a discussion of California's dwindling wilderness areas wouldn’t get stuck in a pointless partisan debate.
On the other hand, if you’re in favor of opening up more land to development that’s fine, just don’t say that you are trying to protect the land by doing it. That’s starting to look too much like a Chevron commercial with their ‘people do’ tagline. So, as I understand your post, you believe that stripping Death Valley of protected status and letting in industry, the parks will decrease in their popularity, and thus be altogether better ecosystems. On that note, I’m going to sign off for a while. Thanks for letting me into your world. A place where the Republicans are the true environmentalists and the Sierra Club wants to see our beautiful land and precious resources trashed forever. (?)