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To: Delacon
WHY DO EVEN CONS THINK EARTH NEEDS CARING FOR?

Excuse me, but I do habitat restoration, nearly full time. I can show you deserts created by neglect, where once they had been three feet deep in grass when they were grazed. We have 140 million acres of Forest Service land alone, at risk of catastrophic fire, which will result in watershed degradation. We have 50 million acres Forest Service land alone consisting of decadent chaparral ready to blow up. We have thousands of square miles of desert where once there was savanna, resulting from grazing restrictions. We have 22 million acres of starthistle drying out the ground in California alone. All are due to neglect, and if you think it doesn't matter economically, I give you the fires in San Diego and San Bernardino Counties in only the last five years.

Some of us know how to couple the commands of Genesis 1 with the strictures of Parashiot Behar Sinai and B'chukotai (Leviticus 25 & 26). Some of us understand that a healthy rural economy is dependent upon healthy habitat, the core of national defense. Apparently you don't.

28 posted on 02/29/2008 9:34:28 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Islam offers three choices: surrender, kill them, or die.)
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To: Carry_Okie
Ok, what I said was an oversimplification. But you took it out of context. I went on to say “we adjust to the earths adjustments to about a billion adjustments it has to make” which is in line with your comments. You said “Without people on the land, it can’t be cared for. It’s a huge problem.” I still disagree. So long as there aren’t people on the land, there is a good argument to let fires and other catastrophic natural disasters run their course.
29 posted on 03/01/2008 7:22:38 AM PST by Delacon (“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H. L. Mencken)
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