Re: Yellowstone: Visitor's Truck Damages Geyser Area

Kent Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> I doubt the guy is smart enough to vote, but your stringing together of 
> "Republican" to "losers" and "white trash" doesn't add much to the 
> debate. After all, some would argue that the "ecofreaks'" favorite 
> president came from Arkansas.

My "Republican" angle was about that party's general disrespect for
nature, documented consistently in their selfish rhetoric and voting
records.

Conservatives used to say "waste not, want not." Now it tends to be
"waste a lot, want more!" Greed has replaced restraint. I don't think
Republicans were ever huge champions of nature, save for a few like
Teddy Roosevelt, but now they rarely champion conservation unless it
involves preserving hunted species, etc.. Everything has to have a
payoff and nature isn't "cost effective" if left untouched.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the few Republicans in recent years
who seems to respect nature beyond its monetary value (and his true
Republican status has been questioned in part because of that). Yes,
there are Republicans who understand that we need nature more than it
needs us, but they don't speak out enough.

E.A.

http://enough_already.tripod.com/
If any other species behaved like Man we'd call it a plague.