[ClearCase_guy]

Threatening the environment? Landslides, avalanches, floods, expanding lakes -- all of these things "threaten an environment". It happens.

The world changes. All the time. These nimrods want stasis where nothing changes, nothing is "threatened".

My position is always the same: Global Warming is occuring on Mars. Fix it there first, to see if we can do it without unforeseen consequences. After we figure out how to stabilize Mars, then we should try to change things on Earth.

[stboz]

Threatening the environment? Landslides, avalanches, floods, expanding lakes....

Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!

[i.l.e.]

The greens, conservation international and the nature conservancy would revert back to the dinosaur days if they thought they could get away with it. These self proclaimed keepers of the planet are oblivious to the fact that you can't make an end run around state sovereignity by simply buying up lots of land everywhere on the planet and declaring it off limits to humans.

We are so conditioned to hearing tales of woe from the eco-nistas that a description of overflowing lakes to be a catastrophe doesn't even raise an eyebrow.