Thursday, November 13, 2008
One last chance to screw the Earth
Mountain top coal mining (note the huge swath of
gray, dead area in the middle of otherwise green forest lands.)
One last chance to do something bad to the Earth or its inhabitants, and well you know the George the II is going to dive in head first. The lame duck and widely loathed Bush the II administration moved this week to destroy the environment any way it can before it leaves office.
Bush II officials are going to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks and on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. Once again Bush-Cheney will put the interest of big energy companies ahead of our (collective) ecology. Once again, sustainability is pushed to the rear in a greedy rush for profits. This is only further underlined by the limited time the President has remaining in office and the near certainty that an Obama administration will reverse these rules. The evil Bush the II cares not that the rules will be reversed as soon as he leaves office. "Mine now!" "Degrade the environment as fast as you can," is his administration's mantra.
How long before he and Dick "Friend of Satan" Cheney are collecting fat fees for serving on the boards of multi-national energy companies? Weeks after leaving office? Days?
Bush the II also plans to make it easier to wreak environmental havoc in the Appalachians by removing limits on mountaintop-removal coal mining.
He is also moving to relax limits placed on development by the Endangered Species Act.
There is warm cell in hell waiting for this demon! The sooner he is inhabiting it, the better.
Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon, in addition to scarring one of America's most beautiful national landmarks, raises the risk of uranium leaching into the Colorado River, a source of drinking water and crop irrigation supply for several western states.
Mountain top removal coal mining devastates whole ecosystems. It has been called mountain top strip mining. The Bush the II administration wants to relax rules that prohibit mining companies from dumping mining waste over the top of streams, because ruining the top of the mountain isn't enough when you can kill that what lives in the valleys, too.
Special thanks to one of our Los Angeles area readers for being the first to bring this issue to the Clarion Content's attention.
Labels: ecology, Politics, science
Comments:
Please note in this article hell is just a metaphor and the Clarion Content does not actually wish any physical harm befall the President.
Just know that if America had a Robespierre, surely he would have taken this fucker out! Problem is he probably would have taken Obama out too, eventually, and quite likely the Clarion Content's staff.
Which is why we don't roll like that in our pacifist hearts...
Just know that if America had a Robespierre, surely he would have taken this fucker out! Problem is he probably would have taken Obama out too, eventually, and quite likely the Clarion Content's staff.
Which is why we don't roll like that in our pacifist hearts...
I do believe that your house was a clear grassy piece of land before it was chewed up to make room for you.
# posted by 
: 11/13/2008 3:34 PM
: 11/13/2008 3:34 PM
Actually, the house that I live in was at the edge of Duke Forest before the area was developed.
Man has been screwing with the environment for quite a while already. In fact, there are only three states in America where "grass" as it is conventionally thought of in suburbia is native; Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
The lesson is as old as the planet itself. There have been six major species extinctions to date. Change our behavior or slip down the slope to extinction seven.
Man has been screwing with the environment for quite a while already. In fact, there are only three states in America where "grass" as it is conventionally thought of in suburbia is native; Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana.
The lesson is as old as the planet itself. There have been six major species extinctions to date. Change our behavior or slip down the slope to extinction seven.
So what's next, will we be drilling off shore, or better yet, in Alaska.
# posted by : 11/23/2008 11:10 AM
: 11/23/2008 11:10 AM
How about building wind farms in the depopulated midwest of America? Or an infrastructure of natural gas filling stations for vehicles?
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