[Justanumba]

If you are actually a teenager, then you have been subjected to a barrage of propaganda, from your school, the media and numerous other sources. People that actually live in the areas that are affected and also harvest the resources of the land which we all use to survive realize that there is an environmental agenda out there which is anti-private property, anti-American and anti-development (read anti-prosperity).

If you have lived in the Rural West and seen the incredibly poor management of the forests by the Federal government which have resulted in wildfires which destroy the very environment that the environmentalists say they wish to protect, you would not take the stance you are taking.

I once belonged to the Sierra club when I was a teenager. When I studied up and researched (using my own brain and my own b.s. meter instead of believing regurgitated propaganda), looking at both sides of the issue, I rejected much of what the environmental movement purports.

Do your homework. Investigate. Read the other side. It's here on Free Republic. Go to Sierratimes.com and read. You have been hoodwinked and it's not your fault, unless, having been warned, you continue to wallow in ignorance.

[poet]

Good advice