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You know how it is. When a beaver builds a dam, it’s natural and admirable. When a human builds a dam, it’s destructive and unnatural.

The global warming hysteria is a similar expression of the idea that things must not be allowed to change. The assumption that we live in the best of all possible worlds belies nature’s propensity to upset the order from time to time.

Somalia’s loss is Greenland’s gain. Who’s to say the Greenlanders won’t do a better job with a decent climate than Somalia has done with theirs?

Nailing where these losses are is the key and the reality of of what their population should be is the other key. It is a man made scale with no REAL knowledge...just a simple perspective.

My first comment to an environmentalist in training was: How many pairs of shoes do you have? How many feet do you have? She got the message real quick.

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who “love Nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.’ “
The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature”, but beavers and their dams are.
But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity.
In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers’ purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the “Naturist” reveals his hatred for his own race, i.e. his own self-hatred.
In the case,of “Naturists” such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot.
But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have.
Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women, it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly “natural.” LAZARUS LONG