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"Why does environmental concern have to be taken to the outrageous extreme of "hippie" tree hugging?"

Well, see there? Your trying to "flip the argument" and make me out to be doing what 99 and 44/100% of those "concerned about the environment" have done as extremists for the past 40 years!!!

If you're even brave enough to challenge the pejorative style condemnation, you get the "Oh Pulleeze" treatment right off the bat. Like, "how dare you even question my high minded motivations of calling into question every singel enviro-crime ever committed by mankind?"

This phony sense of "moral superiority" has gotten way over-done and is offensive to those who would truly like to encourage non-GovernMental environmental methods that did not attack property rights, free enterprise and individualism in this nation!!!

It's aggregious to me to find the tired tirade being spewed on a conservative website, complete with trite expressions one would hear from a hard leftist Berkely professor, trying to convince his class that mankind, especially American mankind... are all evil, hopless polluters and desacrators of the entire planet's environment with man-made erosion... a natural process!!!

Thank you for your very cogent thoughts. I agree exactly with you. It is a bit disgusting to have so many Freepers sound like leftist professors.

what on earth are you talking about, being concerned about the environment has nothing to do with superiority. it sounds like you have an emotional bias and little understanding of the real issues.

Sorry if that is not the case but your entire argument is nonsensical

I'm sorry to delve further into this debate because in being honest some conservative icons must be gored. First, the astronaut's comments were benign and the article went way overboard speculating she wanted things like putting natural resources back in the ground.

Second, of course the environmental movement is largely bogus and a left wing attack on capitalism. BUT there is a need for legitimate protection of the environment. In making fun of the environmentalists many commentators imply there can be no manmade damage to the environment, and that all environmental regulations are unecessary. That is ridiculous. As good conservatives, we all loved recounting how the communist countries devastated their environments because they didn't give a damn about their people.

There are very real poisons like heavy metals and soot belched into the soil and air by industry and I for one don't want to breathe or ingest them. Astronauts for decades have been commenting on the fragility of the earth as seen from space and I think they've got a pretty good vantage point from which to make that observation.