Of course he didn't have to laboriously type everything he had to say and neither did she. Maybe you can find the exchange on the free part of his site. Even though I doubt you care to explore either Rush's, or my points of view, the experience would do you good, even though I'm sure it wouldn't change your mind.
I did hear Rush on this and the segment I caught emphasized that she was talking about Africa. So Rush was ridiculing the notion that the industrialized world is the only polluter. I would part company with Rush when he started saying that he has seen the Mississipi turn brown after a rainstorm, implying the astronaut's comment on deforestation in Madagascar could be an observation of something totally benign. I don't know anything about madagascar river flows, but it's certainly possible the astronaut knows something about what she was observing. Why do we have a need to ridicule the idea that madagascar might be pursuing some bad policies that are observable from speace? I don't see why a conservative has to assume Madagascar is well run and can't screw up its environment.
Since Rush is only right 98.7% of the time, this is one of those times he's clueless.
hmmm