The Race for Survival

There are mothers in Darfur cuddling their starving infants much as the mama polar bear in this article. Where do you think that we ought to go first?

Harvest those hides before they fall into the crude oil slush pits.

Hang in there, bears. The ice will rise again.

This is more like what the environmental movement promised the Northwest when it moved to place the Western Spotted Owl on the endangered list. Archived newsletters from the AUDUBON Society,the SIERRA CLUB ,and Friends of the Earth painted blithe pretty pictures in laying out the new timber-less futures of the residents of vast swaths of the rural areas of this geographic region. ''Retraining''[for loggers and mill workers]. A new ''tourist-based''industry where such towns would be magically transformed into versions of a Telluride,an Aspen,or a Jackson Hole,encourgaging the rise of ''service economies''in order to serve the tourists which would pour into the region.
To put plainly,they lied. All of them. Areas of southern Oregon and northeastern[and western]California are neatly paralled by the West Virginian Applallacia and Mississippi Delta for their sheer expanse of poverty. In seeking to explore the ''new technologies''[where have we heard this one before?] of building materials replacement,starting with SIERRA CLUBS pie-in-the-sky treatise in 1989,we now import more lumber than ever before in the history of America. Hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs have vanished,and it is the express purpose of the environmentalist that ranchers[the Sage Grouse becomes the next ''spotted owl''],miners,drillers,and already,loggers,are eliminated in such a fashion that what will be left is high-schools bearing the names of such professions that they do not know and that future generations will have no understanding of. The Blue seeks to destroy the economy of the Red[by which the Blue yet benefits],by the useage of the biggest land grab in our history behind that which was taken by the Native American,kept in a government ''trust'',and all the while,ensuring that America for decades,if not hundreds of years to come,will grow ever more dependant on the whims of foreign countries for our needs which further erode our ability to remain a sovereign nation,and render enhanced economic instabilty upon the nations citizens. Make no mistake. ''Compromise''does not exist in the lexicon of the enviro. Put this image on a t-shirt instead:

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Origination, survival, and final extinction of life forms is a constant process. You have only to crack open a piece of limestone to find remnants of creatures long gone, or go to the frozen steppes of Siberia to find remnants of a mastodon, or dig up the bones of a dinosaur in Montana or Texas to illustrate this. Nature has been in control of extinction until now and now it is our turn. One day, either by nature or our own hand, we, too will join the ranks of the extinct. But don't worry. New things are originating every day.