03-12-2003, 08:22 PM
Hi,
. . . I don't see anything in that article to further that opinion.
On the one side are the extremist who feel that anything mankind wants or needs should just be taken and damn the environment. On the other side is a bunch of extremists who feel that the environment should remain totally pristine without regards to mankind's needs. Both sides make so much noise that the quiet voice of reason is totally overwhelmed. Neither side wishes to give an inch, when indeed there may well be a way for both sides to get what they want.
Environmentalists want to forget about the nonsense they spouted before the Alaska pipeline was built. And anti-environmentalists want to ignore that the reason the pipeline wasn't an ecological disaster was that pressure put on by the environmentalists.
But, frankly, all that article does is reinforce my belief that both extremes are, as usual, idiots. As to the Shrub, that article does nothing one way or the other to change the low opinion I have of him.
--Pete
. . . I don't see anything in that article to further that opinion.
On the one side are the extremist who feel that anything mankind wants or needs should just be taken and damn the environment. On the other side is a bunch of extremists who feel that the environment should remain totally pristine without regards to mankind's needs. Both sides make so much noise that the quiet voice of reason is totally overwhelmed. Neither side wishes to give an inch, when indeed there may well be a way for both sides to get what they want.
Environmentalists want to forget about the nonsense they spouted before the Alaska pipeline was built. And anti-environmentalists want to ignore that the reason the pipeline wasn't an ecological disaster was that pressure put on by the environmentalists.
But, frankly, all that article does is reinforce my belief that both extremes are, as usual, idiots. As to the Shrub, that article does nothing one way or the other to change the low opinion I have of him.
--Pete
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