Monday, May 23, 2005
Pollution...
This Is Near Criminal
Cheat Seeking Missles is doing a series of posts on letters that sixth graders are writing the California Coastal Commission concerning a development near a wetlands. Here is the first quoted letter.
There is no way on God's green earth that a child in sixth grade could understand the scientific or political issues involved in a situation like this. Needless to say, I was a fairly exceptional science student, but in sixth grade I could not have begun to understand whether this development was a good or bad thing -- I would have had to take my teachers word for it.
Which is the problem. Development cases like this usually use environmental matters as a smokescreen simply because people don't want the neighborhood to change. That's enough of a misdirection/lie to honk me off, but to involve children in it that have no concept of what is going on reduces the child to less than human status -- an object to be manipulated for political gain. That's just heinous.
There Are Problems And Then There Are People With Nothing Better To Do
Star Wars figurines could create disposal problem, group warns
Some things don't need comment
Where Are The MSM Headlines About This?
Turns out the air can clean itself much better than we thought.
Someone Agrees With Me
James Watt had a op-ed in WaPo this week. I have taken a lot of heat for saying that environmental issues are not really a "Christian" issue. Way goes farther and states the left is trying to use it as a wedge in the values coalition. Maybe I have better political instincts than I thought...
Now Here Is A Real Environmental Problem
The NYTimes had a editorial this last week about the possibility of terrorist attack on a chemical plant. They are largely right on about the danger, if misguided in their suggestions on how to improve the situation. When I read their suggestions, I tend to think the piece is a new excuse for environmental regulation since that is really what most of the suggestions would do. They have; however, identified a serious probme that needs serious consideration - by people with far less of an agenda.
Cheat Seeking Missles is doing a series of posts on letters that sixth graders are writing the California Coastal Commission concerning a development near a wetlands. Here is the first quoted letter.
There is no way on God's green earth that a child in sixth grade could understand the scientific or political issues involved in a situation like this. Needless to say, I was a fairly exceptional science student, but in sixth grade I could not have begun to understand whether this development was a good or bad thing -- I would have had to take my teachers word for it.
Which is the problem. Development cases like this usually use environmental matters as a smokescreen simply because people don't want the neighborhood to change. That's enough of a misdirection/lie to honk me off, but to involve children in it that have no concept of what is going on reduces the child to less than human status -- an object to be manipulated for political gain. That's just heinous.
There Are Problems And Then There Are People With Nothing Better To Do
Star Wars figurines could create disposal problem, group warns
Some things don't need comment
Where Are The MSM Headlines About This?
Turns out the air can clean itself much better than we thought.
Natural chemicals in the air scrub away pollution more effectively than previously thought, according to new research.Now about all that melting ice.
Chemicals in the air produce natural air cleaners called hydroxyl radicals, which gobble up smog hydrocarbons and break them down.
A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of iceThis article goes out of its way to preserve the global warming scare inspite of this contrary evidence, but at least it's a start
Someone Agrees With Me
James Watt had a op-ed in WaPo this week. I have taken a lot of heat for saying that environmental issues are not really a "Christian" issue. Way goes farther and states the left is trying to use it as a wedge in the values coalition. Maybe I have better political instincts than I thought...
Now Here Is A Real Environmental Problem
The NYTimes had a editorial this last week about the possibility of terrorist attack on a chemical plant. They are largely right on about the danger, if misguided in their suggestions on how to improve the situation. When I read their suggestions, I tend to think the piece is a new excuse for environmental regulation since that is really what most of the suggestions would do. They have; however, identified a serious probme that needs serious consideration - by people with far less of an agenda.
