Posted on 04/19/2002 11:35:27 AM PDT by cogitator
So you would generally agree with the article's gist. Where are the least-altered areas around Tampa Bay?
They will drop all of these rural/coastal/forest cleansing schemes and just start to kill all humans who dare to live in the druid cathedrals.
Eco enviralists threaten the Americans in America who dare to live in the druid cathedrals!
Remember Earth Day is next Monday. So every Green Nazi Lie that has been dragged around for 3 decades will be trotted out by the Enviral Nazis. The Green Enviral Nazis hate Americans who dare to be alive!
Leon Panetta, former White House chief of staff and current chair of the Pew Oceans Commission, which is conducting the first independent review of national ocean policies in over 30 years."
To make the claim that Pew is an independent commission with Leon Panetta as chairman is a lie, so the conclusions and information contained in the article must be lies as well.
You don't have to be an environazi to realize we need to build and develop responsibly.
That's easy, The EU/UN/NATO people makes the decision!!!
Is the ocean dead as per their previous prediction? If not why believe this prediction. BTW we could reasonibly limit growth i ncoastal by getting rid of federal subsidies for coastal homeowners insurance.
Sell the coasts to the highest bidder. Private individuals care more about their property than public interests.
You haven't read everything I post, obviously.
Yeah, I'm a conservative. I think taxes are too high. I think government intrudes in our lives too much. I think the State of Maryland is the most socialist state in the nation. I think the public schools are doing a poor job of serving our kids and something needs to be done about it.
But I'm also environmentally conscious, and I have a deep concern about particular environmental issues. One of them is the preservation of the coastal environment. It's hard to live in Maryland and not be concerned about the health and welfare of the Chesapeake Bay, particularly given the pressures of urban growth around it. I also realize that coral reefs, a unique and beautiful environment, are endangered. So I diverge from the hard conservative line on the environment in many cases.
I washed out of a chemistry Ph.D. program because my math skills weren't adequate, but I part-timed in some interesting geochemistry and geophysics classes while learning some information technology skills that could keep me employed. That's why I'm interested in determining the real scientific view on issues like climate change.
And... I live on the periphery of an growing urban area, Frederick, Maryland, that I hope doesn't get too much bigger, or it's going to infringe on the semi-rural community I live in. So issues like sprawl (particularly the sprawl in Northern Virginia, just a few miles south across the Potomac River) also interest me. Frederick is an interesting case history in itself because last year they basically terminated future developments because the water supply infrastructure can't handle more.
Finally, I am very concerned about the plight of children in Third World countries that are suffering due to what may be preventable diseases, like cholera, that they die from due to environmental degradation. I don't know the exact numbers, but I know that thousands, perhaps tens or even hundreds of thousands of children die each year from diseases that we don't even think about because our water and air are clean and healthy.
So I think it's possible to be environmentally conscious and to examine these issues for ways that conservatives can support improvements. I hope that's OK for you.
Leon Panetta is still connected with the government in some official way? News to me.
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