[Jinjelsnaps]

Wow. I mean ummm...wow. Makes me embarassed to be living in the SF Bay Area. I hardly know where to begin with this one...

[leadpencil1]

[aviator]

Typical. Lots of emotional-impact words and no facts.

He really should inquire about a French work permit.

[JoJo Gunn]

Another dime-a-dozen estrogen crazed girlie-man screed, available 24/7 on the various Leftist and "bareback rider" sites. Yawn....

[m1-lightning]

Wow. This guy is some liberal tree hugging hippie whack job. I agree with the GOP's labeling of these eco-terrorists.

Oh my God! My face is melting when I go outdoors! Bring back the Kyoto treaty before it gets any hotter! Oh wait, it's like negative 16 degrees WCF here in Illinois...

[finnman69]

Because when that beautiful bitch Mother Nature really begins to strike back, nothing else will matter.

Moroford is arrogant enough to think we can control nature. When the time comes, we will go the way of the dinosaurs, and there is nothing to pre-empt that or change it. You hear that whingin eco-wackos? Short of leaving Earth itself, it's INEVITABLE we will be extinct. I vote to leave Mark behind with the other commie hippie homos who should move to France.

[finnman69]

The truth is, no matter which party you align yourself with, nowadays it takes more guts, more outright nerve, to care about this planet, to work to strip your life of the plastic and the poisonous and minimize your waste and your impact, eat more consciously and support local farming and cherish the flora and fauna, than it ever could be to load up the Escalade with Malaysian-made crap you bought at Wal-Mart that's now 89 cents cheaper because it's made in a sweatshop and not at the local factory that was forced to shut down.

Hey Mark, the dinosaurs did not have Wal-Marts or Escalades and they aint around. The lame attempt to blame all our problems on SUVs and Wal Mart is the sign of a deranged out of touch entrenched San Franciscan.

[Jonah Hex]

He has openly sodomized the Clean Air Act. He has given the green light to clear cutting the nation's largest old-growth forest, Alaska's stunning Tong-ass National Forest.

Ms. Morford, your panties are showing....

[onedoug]

Hitler worshipped nature, too.

[tdadams]

Seeing a Mark Morford article is like seeing those videos on America's Funniest Home Videos where some kid is lining up in front of a t-ball stand ready to swing the bat and his dad is standing just to the side, with the bat at crotch level.

You know what's going to happen, you don't really want to see it, but you watch anyway, and despite your best effort to think it's juvenile, it's still pretty funny.

[finnman69]

IF ONLY.....

[Cicero]

As a matter of fact, I have to agree that conservatives make a mistake when they allow themselves to be seen as anti-environmentalist. Instead, conservatives need to take back the environmental organizations that have been kidnapped by leftist idiots and extremists.

Clean air, clean water, preservation of nature, are things we can all agree on. Where we disagree is that conservatives should pursue these goals rationally.

But the truth is, Mark Morford could make absolutely any argument, no matter how sensible, into pure trash just by the way he writes. He's Maureen Dowd on steroids.

[okie01]

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

Seems to me Morford himself proves that BushCo's claim is absolutely correct.

Morford cares about the environment.

And he is a certifiable pinko.

Not to mention an idiot.

That's two outta three...

[Made In The USA]

Someone should put an oil derrick in his back yard just see if he self-implodes.

[tdadams]

This is the other thing: Bush is the worst environmental president in the nation's history. Period.

Really? Let's test that theory.

Who was president during the Love Canal environmental disaster which displaced nearly a thousand families from a 10 square block area in New York?

Who was president in 1969 when NBC aired a documentary called "Who Killed Lake Erie?" focusing on the lake, which had been called "dead" by environmentalists due to high levels of pollution and algae?

Who was president during the Three Mile Island disaster?

[Abe Froman]

"The truth is, no matter which party you align yourself with, nowadays it takes more guts, more outright nerve, to care about this planet, to work to strip your life of the plastic and the poisonous and minimize your waste and your impact, eat more consciously and support local farming and cherish the flora and fauna, than it ever could be to load up the Escalade with Malaysian-made crap you bought at Wal-Mart that's now 89 cents cheaper because it's made in a sweatshop and not at the local factory that was forced to shut down."

Actually I don't think it's hard at all to do what he's talking about here, and we're all perfectly free to do so.

As long as we don't try to have government force our wishes on OTHER PEOPLE's old growth forests, salmon, and elks, we're fine. We can each love our own forests, salmon, and elks to death if we wish. No problem. And other people should be free to cut down their own forests, and kill and eat their own elks and salmon.

[ArrogantBustard]

Hey Morford! I've just spent 3 successive mornings (and afternoons) scraping that global warming BS off my truck. You want I should send you a bunch of it, so's you can shove it up your....????

[cwb]

"Dubya, by way of his industry cronies, have initiating more than 200 major rollbacks of America's most significant environmental laws."

This is the biggest con-job being perpetrated on the American people by these eco-nuts. Many of these so-called "rollbacks" were never even laws...and were rejected by many Democrats, as well. The fact is, many of these were either "proposals" or EOs that Clinton signed during his last week in office. And why did he wait until his last day in office? Because even he knew that many of these acts would've had a damatic effect on his glorious economy...and that he could never get them through congress.

Oh, it was a beautiful political maneuver; Clinton could propose all these wonderful environmental proposals on his last days in office, knowing full well that the next administration would have to re-evaluate them. Of course, once the next administration did just that, the democrats could claim Bush "rolled back" all these environmental protections. If these were so important to the Democrats and the environmentalist, why did Clinton ignore them for his entire 8 years in office?

Mumford ignores just how extreme environmental policy has gotten over the last decade. From out-of-control forrest fires thanks to brush build-up and reduced access to policies that have impaired our energy resources, including meeting the demands of a growing populous and economy.

Blackouts, brownouts, shortages and a fail to modernize our own electrical grids have been the result of enviromental policy that punishes companies for modernizing. Instead of allowing a company to replace a failed component with a new, more effecient component, Clean Air Act laws require companies to completely retrofit entire systems. As a result, companies try and keep the old inefficient pieces working as long as possible. In other words, it's all or nothing with the environmentalists, because "they" won't compromise.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[boris]

They are not pro nature; they are anti human.

[theyibby]

He must be right. Bush has done nothing to reduce earthquakes in California, hurricanes on the south and east coast, tornados in the midwest, sunspots which have got to be damaging us in some way,not to mention, blizzards, floods, and dead skunks in the roadway which cause terribly hazardous slick spots.

He's right, Bush is no environmental whacko.....thank God!!