Maggie's Farm

Geoff ... The problem with "environmental issues" and environmentalists today is that most of them are willfully lazy and ignorant about what truly damages the environment and what is merely made-up emergencies. The get all excited about polar bears drowning without doing any research on polar bears which are, according to the official taxonomic definition, "the world's largest land-based marine mammal." These marine mammals don't drown even if all the ice around them melts. They have been tagged and tracked by polar bear scientists swimming 500 miles at a clip, with cubs in tow. These bears dine on seals [also 'marine mammals'] and the so-called environmentalists don't seem to worry about them.

That's only one example. These "poor pitiful" animals and their plight are used to arrogate more power and money to the environmentalists and their politicians, and to stifle free enterprise wherever possible.

I agree we need to control theft and fraud in a successful economy, but time after time we have seen naked power grabs by so-called environmentalists using false and misleading information. My husband is a naturalist, and has devoted many years of study to various animals and ecosystems, and he has observed this many times over the years. And no one seems to be willing to do the tough thinking, of putting up relative values of the snail darter, for instance, against the welfare of the humans in a territory which surrounds them. That would take some hard thinking. And politically correct folks are not supposed to make value judgments.

Which is pretty lazy, don't you think?

Marianne