Originally Posted by BrendaEM  Everything you mention only came about because someone worked to protect the environment. DDT could have made all the eagles extinct.Overhunting and poaching could have made all the alligators and crocodiles extinct.
With that said, when people become extinct, the world will recover generally. We make something out of this planet that looks like our moon, but not for long it will recover, but we won't be around to see it.
Lastly, a few nuclear accidents like Chrenoble, and our economy is finished, for good. It would never recover. I lived on the East Coast when it happend. I had to breath that crap in--it isn't going to make me live any longer is it? |
Want to talk to someone about DDT, try the Argentine Gov't. Since the price supports for peanuts has gone out a whole lot more of this nations peanuts are coming from there. They use DDT all the time, along with other outlawed (US) chemicals. DDT was bad for us and the envronment then but the Gov't allows our produce that is imported to be treaded with many chemicals that the US deems harmful to the envronment and humans.
Overhunt: Alligators were never actually as endangered as once thought, they simply moved into less accessable area where even they couldn't be counted. Once the pressure from man backed off they made a near overnight recovery, ie they spread out to relieve pressure from overpopulation of the safe areas.
The US needs to be responsible for itself, that I agree. However listening to every blubbering alarmist screaming about unfounded envronmental concerns is not responsible. I'm much more worried about the rest of the world. We are a pretty clean country compared globally.
Chernoybl was a fluke, that is why the dozen (11) identical sister plants operating in the former eastern block countries and Russia are still pumping out power vitally needed to allow them to grow their economies and support their citizens. Nuke power is the future, if ever the politicos will stop worring about pollsters and start worring about our fellow citizens. California will desperately be needing power this summer it could have in abundance if it wasn't for alarmist eco crazies. Amazing that the envronment hasn't crashed for all of eastern Europe which was under the fallout path for most of the time. Read an article in National Geo a few years back, I personally was amazed that the effect weren't felt farther afield than had been documented in the more immediate area of the disaster and the worse of the fallout path.
My .02
Scott