The Sierra Club protected millions of acres of western forest land for a few spotted owls. Hundreds of unemployed loggers and sawmill operators lost their jobs, leading to depression not only of the economy in forestry industries, but of the men who used to work there. Unable to treat their depression, it leads to suicide.
The Sierra Club is fine with that. They may have saved a dozen owls.
Exactly right. When I was a kid in the late 50s and early 60s visiting relatives in Idaho, the northern part of the state was all about mining and lumber. Those industries are a shadow of their former selves. When I started my career, I did a lot of field engineering work in coastal Oregon where it was all lumber and pulp & paper. Today it’s nothing but Indian casinos.
The environmentalists killed honest work that paid a fair wage.
Won’t be a place for the owls when the forest burns. Stupid people.