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To: fireman15

It’s easy to be glib when you’re completely ignorant of the subject.


35 posted on 01/21/2024 2:34:53 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
It's easy to be glib when you're completely ignorant of the subject.

I agree completely with that. You don't really know anything about that which you are complaining about.

I grew up on acreage. We had cows and horses. The property had been used the same way since the mid 1800s. My grandmother's house was built in the 1870s. When I was a kid I often had to chase the cows out of the lower pasture that the creek ran through. There was still salmon that came up the creek to spawn. Somehow they didn't seem to be affected by cows and horses and wildlife drinking from the creek.

The surrounding area began to get more and more developed. storm drains were routed into the creek. Fertilizer from people's yards would run into the storm drains when it rained and this caused weeds to start growing in the creek which caused the flow to be impeded. When it rained the creek stated flooding. An area which had been used to grow hay for a hundred years stated turning into a marshy mess.

Of course, all the ecologically conscious neighbors began complaining that our cows were getting too close to the creek. At first we were allowed to put a fence up on both sides of the creek to keep them away, but after a while we were not allowed to have cows in the lower pasture at all which made up the largest part of our land and had been the most productive.

The salmon of course no longer made it up the creek not because of our cows but because of the weeds and the lowered oxygen level in the water from the fertilizers and other chemicals from people's yards.

But what really finished the salmon run off for good was the chemical form release compound from the company above us. They made concrete manholes, pipes and other large items. When they rinsed off their forms the runoff was allowed to run into the creek. The creek smelled like the concrete company. Nothing was done about that for years despite our complaints.

Instead, hearings were held about whether we should be allowed to have cows or horses on our property at all. Yes, our property's value was destroyed by all the flooding and chemicals that were washed down the storm drains which clogged the creek. Yet we found that we were the scapegoats who were blamed for the salmon run dying off.

So yes, unfortunately, I do know something about environmentally conscious leftist eco-warriors such as yourself. I found out that they were all a bunch of virtue signaling goons who blame everything on others when they are sometimes the primary cause of the problem.

So, you go ahead and lay naked in the middle of the highway somewhere to protest the oil industry, hydroelectric dams, and global warming... but watch out when a hostile farmer driving a big tractor. He might not see you.

69 posted on 01/21/2024 5:30:18 PM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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