Posted on 04/15/2006 3:43:11 PM PDT by Coleus
Yes.
That is the fundamental problem.
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Are these stats for the U.S. or for the whole world?
The whole report can be viewed and downloaded here:
http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/sab/enviro/06_enviroindex/00_features.html
To all
Notice how all the claims about the disappearing ozone layer has sort of 'disappeared'!
Unfortunately, the truth doesn't sell newspapers.
"Environmentalism" is all about replacing capitalism with global socialism. "The environment" serves only as a ploy to (try to) hide the true agenda of the demented ideologues while also serving as a righteous-sounding gimmick to raise lots of money and lure in platoons of naive goofballs.
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"What can you do with pine cones?"
For starters, that's where the pine tree seeds are...so you can plant pinecones for more trees to sell a few years down the road. :)
Crafters love pinecones. We collect them in the spring, dry then in paper sacks during the summer (shake out the seeds) and then sell them to crafters who make wreathes and use them for decorations or add pine-scented oil to them for Christmas decorations and if you dip them in wax, you can make firestarters for your fireplace or wood stove or camp fires. Smear 'em with peanut butter, roll them in birdseed and hang them out for the birds as feeders in the winter months.
See? Plenty of ways to make a buck off of a "useless" old pinecone. :)
You could say to your customers "Well,I don't know, I love that tree so much...I'll let it go sniffle sniffle.. for 2000 bucks. Take it before I change my mind."
I'm stealing that one, LOL! I'm also going to greet EVERYONE with a "Happy Earth Day!" that day.
I'm encouraging the kids (nieces & nephews that are always underfoot) to set up a little stand and make up pitchers of green Kool Aide and sell it as "Earth Day Juice." Maybe we'll bake chocolate cupcakes with green and blue frosting and sell them as "Earth Cakes?" LOL! We'll see how motivated they are. ;)
LOL! It's hard enough to explain the difference between a Red Pine and a White Pine to City Slickers; you have to look at the needles; clump of 5, clump of 3, not to mention the differences between a "spruce" and a "pine" and a "fir" and a "cedar"...Oh, nevermind.
Naming them is probably the easier way to go, LOL! :)
Let me send you some cockleburrs. You could sell them as porcupine eggs.
I like your style....
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It'll always be something for the enviro-nazi's. If they didn't have gasoline to gripe about... it'd be the big, methane bubbles released in the oceans. Their goal is is not a clean environment... it's an environment clean of capitalism.
I soak them in hot wax and use them to start wood fires in the fireplace.
One bushel lasts a season.
The only problem with a good article like this one is that it never makes it's way to the public thanks to the mainstream media's Bias.
That's the spirit! Ham it up. Mutter things like "Everybody needs to carry their weight but they aren't so we "Earth" people need to carry more, buy more trees." "Spending all the proceeds to grow more trees." "Surely you can find space for another tree."
Hope you have a great day and I hope the weather's nice. I figure you're out in now.
See? Plenty of ways to make a buck off of a "useless" old pinecone. :)
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Cool! I had no idea!
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