What Enviros Are Saying About Obama's Speech

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An organic farms kills with the plow. What do you suppose happens to all those lizards, moles, gophers, ground squirrels, snakes, mice, rats, skinks, salamanders, butterflies, toads, frogs, ground nesting birds, rabbits, insects and the "eco-system in general when the plow cuts through it?
Furthermore, I have seen all of the above listed animals happily co-existing on a cattle ranch - none survive on an "organic farm".
I suspect most enviros live in a city. What do you suppose lived where you do before somebody poured 4 inches of concrete or hot asphalt over that "eco-system", before we had to make way for your clan?
You use electricity? Natural gas? Petro Chemicals? What do you think - hydroelectric dams don't come with a price in animal life. Do you suppose that mines, industry, factories and transportation don't have an environmental price?
Even if we retreat back to the caves - leaving 99% of the human race to die in the process - do you suppose we would remain there, watching our children starve and our parents die at 35?
Do you ever think below the warm and fuzzy surface of an issue? You have the permission of the Nature Goddess - retreat back into her nurturing embrace - not for an "eco-trek weekend", wearing a fanny-pack and sipping bottled water, but forever - in your frail human nakedness. See if the animals you love so much "cut you any slack" - show you any charity... They won't even say "Grace" as they devour you.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:48PM April 05, 2009

It doesn't matter whether someone emits CO2 in The US or another nation, it ends up in the same atmosphere. If an immigrant to the US uses less oil, and emits less greenhouse gases, because of a change in our national policies, then the whole planet benefits. If they come here and adopt the wasteful, over-comsuptive lifestyle that the Bush administration promoted and subsidized, then the whole planet suffers. Immigration has nothing to do with the urgent need for global CO2 reductions - wherever we live, we still have to reduce.
The myth of "immigrant hordes" is intended to play to unconscious race-based fears. The fact is that immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, contribute far more to the US economy than they take out. They do difficult, low-wage work, pay taxes for social services they use at about half the rate of native-born, and many pay into social security accounts which they will never draw on. Without immigrants our recession would be even deeper.
It is the relatively well-off individuals and corporations in the US, Europe, and Japan who emit the majority of greenhouse gases, even though we are a small minority of the golbal population. Let's stop blaming immigrants and start cleaning up our own act.

Daniel of CA 8:20PM March 02, 2009

The Dems want to bring in a hundred million immigrants and illegal aliens to perpetuate Dem rule. Comprehensive immigration "reform" is an Obama priority. How is this consistent with CO2 reduction and oil conservation?

Luther of IL 9:46PM February 25, 2009