BushCo wants you to know: Caring about the environment is for pinko terrorist idiots

SF Gate / SF Chronicle ^ | 01/28/04 | Mark Morford

[Jinjelsnaps]

As if 600-year-old redwoods give a damn for your politics.

As if struggling salmon care a whit for the Catholic Church's sneering homophobic stance on gay marriage. Like Alaskan elk think your viewpoints on war are far too lopsided to hold sway in the national dialogue.

[finnman69]

"San Francisco used to be filled with deviant enviro wackos as you can see in this newspaper...until the Third World War"

[Cicero]

Conservative and conservation are related, or used to be. The two go together. I live in the country and I know that you have to cut down some of the trees to improve the woods, and clear some brush if you want pasture. We also are happy to share our trails with our neighbors, and we like snowmobilers because they help groom the trails through our part of the country.

As you suggest, city folks have to be educated. Right now, they are listening to a bunch of extremist freaks who don't know what they are talking about. The best answer to that is to take back the environmental organizations and the media and do some reeducating.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[11B3]

Ms Morford is obviously a couple of quarts low on man milk. Why doesn't he just go ahead and have the surgery and get it over with?

[Romulus]

He has openly sodomized the Clean Air Act.

Possibly, but given the column's provenance, I'm not sure if the author is complaining about the President or congratulating him.

[presidio9]

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[marsh2]

The fires in southern California demonstrate that green extreme preservationist policies can "love" nature to death. Land and water courses are not static, they change in known cycles over time. A wetland becomes a grassland, becomes a forest then climax and decay or die. If the agent of death is pervasive enough - (insect, fire, etc.,) the forest can drop a few seral stages back into grassland.

Man has learned a lot about managing the natural process through practical sciences such as silvaculture, geomorphology, ecology. Management can be used to mimic the effects of natural process, (such as clear cutting,) or enhance growth, (such as thinning,) or reduce danger (fuel reduction.) The forests produced through management can provide wood products and biomass on a sustainable harvest level. They can enhace recreational use, increase habitat, provide opportunities for multiple use.

Somehow this is "Bad" in the eyes of extremists. According to them, it is not "stewardship" to actually manage resources so that they can be better utilized by humans and other species. The extreme environmentalist considers "no management at all" to be proper stewardship of "the planet" and human use of resources to be an exploitive capitalist sin.

Look at the land that was in the S. California fires, the Biscuit fires, etc. Are we better stewards to have soil that is sterilized, rivers that are clogged with silt, surviving endangered species who have are stressed to extinction from loss of critical habitat? That is what this hysterical extremist would have readers believe with his rant.

[RichInOC]

You cannot want the U.S. Navy to knock it off with the goddamn high-powered sonar that damages whales without being cast as some sort of New Age freak.

Michael Moore is still alive. How bad can it be?

Mark, this weekend, do something different. Have a normal party with some normal friends (if you can find any). Watch the Super Bowl. Eat too much red meat and other fatty foods. Drink too much beer. Belch. Break wind. Repeat. It'll be fun, and educational for you to see what life is like for us who don't spend our weekend nights pulling a train for a bunch of leather freaks.

[Oliver Boliver Butt]

Morford and some of his stablemates at the SF Chronicle often provide entertaining glimpses of how out-of-touch they are. Those who enjoy reading Morford's lunatic rantings might also enjoy Harley Sorenson; neither let facts get in the way.

[sergeantdave]

I love it when hippy freak eco-fascist commie liberals shoot watermelon seeds outta their arses.

[spacewarp]

At first, it was so daggone far over the top I thought it was going to end up being a slap at the commie pinko enviro-terrorists. But then he kept going as if serious. As if any of it was true. Sheesh.

[Libertina]

You cannot think solar power is cool without being labeled a hippie. You cannot want the U.S. Navy to knock it off with the goddamn high-powered sonar that damages whales without being cast as some sort of New Age freak
Cool, we're making a difference.. ;)

[samtheman]

Environmental Pol Pots

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

He's Maureen Dowd on steroids

I thought Ms. Morford was Maureen Dowd on estrogen.