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Activist group says Utahns are living beyond ecological means
The Deseret News ^
| 6/28/2007
| Joe Bauman
Posted on 06/28/2007 7:48:22 PM PDT by Utah Girl
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Along the Wasatch Front, it is getting crowded. I-15 is a nightmare at times. But several of these activist groups have caused a lot of the problems themselves in the long run. They have filed lawsuit after lawsuit to stop any new highways (Legacy Highway, the Provo Canyon road, which is Highway 89, etc.) They want us all to drive Yugos and bicycles and use mass transit. Well, mass transit isn't that well established yet in Utah (TRAX is working really well.) And the commuter rail has been started from North Ogden to Salt Lake City. But it will be at least until 2011 until commuter rail will reach from Provo to Salt Lake City. And of course, they have no solutions that are realistic.
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posted on
06/28/2007 7:48:23 PM PDT
by
Utah Girl
To: Utah Girl
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posted on
06/28/2007 7:51:20 PM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: Utah Girl
Ever notice how those on the left are ‘activists’ and those on the right are ‘extremists’?
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posted on
06/28/2007 7:52:30 PM PDT
by
Hazcat
(We won an immigration BATTLE, the WAR is not over. Be ever vigilant.)
To: Utah Girl
These people are idiots.
Don't you have any hungry bears lurking about, looking for an easy lunch? ; )
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posted on
06/28/2007 7:53:25 PM PDT
by
Northern Yankee
(Freedom Needs A Soldier)
To: Utah Girl
“ecological footprint credit”???
Ah, it’s a protection racket. My condolences.
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posted on
06/28/2007 7:53:48 PM PDT
by
kallisti
(stop making sense)
To: bill1952
LOL. Great stuff. It looks just like the activists. :) And acts like them too. They’re like chickens running around with their heads cut off screaming “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”
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posted on
06/28/2007 7:54:31 PM PDT
by
Utah Girl
To: Utah Girl
They won't be happy until you are all living in tents with bicycles to ride on dirt roads to your "homes" with no indoor plumbing, no electricity, no heat, no cooling, no refrigeration of any kind.
Of course THEY, the nutjob elitists will be living in what you are forced to "surrender" for the good of the community and state......driving their suv's......shopping at the grocery stores filled with chilled food.......but the ecological balance will be saved.....
The insaniacs are very very close to taking full power. Stand up in Utah and tell them they are nuts!
To: Utah Girl
What wasn't mentioned was how in-migration from other states might affect Utah's ecological footprint, whether that change reduces the other states' footprints or if Utah should get an ecological footprint credit for taking in people from other states.
How about in-migration from other countries? Does the United States get an 'ecological footprint credit' for taking in a tenth of the population of Mexico?
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posted on
06/28/2007 7:56:26 PM PDT
by
goldfinch
To: Utah Girl
The group Utah Vital Signs examined the amount of the world's resources used by residents in a nine-month study. Just a thought, but does membership in the nut group Utah Vital Signs consist of 2.4% of the population? If yes, they should act, instead of sermonize. I understand Wyoming and Montana have foorprint "deficits".
If not, then their support is mostly delusionary, and they should go out and get real jobs, and stop being society parasites.
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posted on
06/28/2007 7:57:21 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: Northern Yankee
Unfortunately, we do. There is no food in the higher elevations, so the bears are coming down the mountains to search for food. A brown bear killed an 11 year old boy a couple of weeks ago, dragged him from his tent in his sleeping bag and mauled him to death. Gruesome. However it is the first death in Utah ever by a bear.
To: bill1952
What’s ONOZ stand for ?
By the way that graphic is hillarious, I’ll have to save for future use.
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:00:35 PM PDT
by
farlander
(Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
To: Freedom'sWorthIt
We do. In the article it sounds as if they want us to live like the pioneers did, in log cabins. Then they would gripe about more air pollution because of all the smoke from the fires in the fireplaces in the log cabins. What they actually want to do is eradicate people from anywhere they can.
To: Utah Girl
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:00:54 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
To: farlander
Giggle. I just noticed the graphic and the source is ?? So true.
Someone not living beyond their ecological means:
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:03:10 PM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: Utah Girl
Look at D.C.!Look at LA!!!!
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:04:13 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Is the amnesty bill the REASON our Founding Fathers insured our RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS?)
To: Utah Girl
Maybe the problem could be resolved by shipping all the environmental activists to New York City.
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:06:54 PM PDT
by
B Knotts
(Anybody but Giuliani!)
To: Utah Girl
The world is nuts; it has to be when even the nuts are going nuts.
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:10:23 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: Utah Girl
"It's important to think about how much we produce," said Wayne Martinson, a member of the UPEC board of directors, "how self-sufficient we are. ..."Well, since you ask, this map shows the GDP of each state as if it was compared to a country in the world:
As you can see, Utah is comparable to Peru in GDP. Utah has 84904 square miles; Peru has 496414 square miles, almost 6X the size of Utah. It's apparent that the "activists" need to be scolding the Peruvians on their excessive "ecological footprint"
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:12:42 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: Utah Girl
“When in danger or in doubt,
run in circles, scream and shout”
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posted on
06/28/2007 8:17:46 PM PDT
by
Atchafalaya
(When you are there thats the best)
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