It amazes me how often people stop short of thinking issues through for the sake of political correctness. Either they don't really think things through because they're lazy or because they are unable to, not having learned real reasoning skills.
The most perfect example I can think of this is from a singer I had tonight at a local coffee shop. He started by explaining his inspiration for his song, which was never having understood why we put so many piles of "stuff" in the ground. The title of the song was "Use Less". Now I'm sure most people will immediately jump to what they believe is the point of his song which is that we use more than we need and therefore are wasting resources. The thing that is wrong with this is that he either doesn't believe in the conservation of engergy which is a fairly liberal tenet. It is one that is almost necessary to the idea of the big bang and thus to such things as evolution and everything else that flows from the big bang.
The question that he never asked and could be simply answered is, "where did all that stuff come from in the first place?" Did we simply make it out of thin air? Of course we did not. All that stuff came out of the ground and as such if we are putting it back in the ground then is there really any difference than if we had never taken it out of the ground at all? Now if this is true then it means there is no waste at all. Everything we're not actually using is going right back where it came from in the first place.
When we consider this, isn't it true of everything we have and use. It is all just being reused over and over. I have met people who are against plastic because it isn't biodegradable, but these same people never consider that rocks are not really biodegradable either at least not for 1000's of years the same as plastic. Didn't the plastic ultimately come out of the ground? And if it should sit there for a thousand years what matter, so do rocks but we do not complain about that, because "they're natural". What makes them natural and plastic not? Because man has worked it into what it is. Does this mean that if we carved a statue and then left it in the desert this would be evil?
This is typical of the politically correct crowd. It doesn't have to make a lot of sense, it only has to be something that bothers them and everyone should cower after that because it is offensive to someone. You would think they would think through their premise a little more thoroughly, but it is just a simplistic idea that because man made it, it must be nasty and needs to be stopped. These people feel that man in general is a blight on the land. Because we change things in a determined way, instead of the mindless way that animals do it must be bad there need be no real reasoning to explain this; it only needs to be asserted. If you say it enough eventually it seems that people begin to believe it or at least won’t say anything against it.
If we were to dig something up and immediately put it back I fear the environmentalists would have a problem even with that just because we moved it away no matter how short the period. Of course if it was a dog or some other animal digging the hold then it would be fine. Really what it comes down to is that if environmentalists like something they are will to do whatever it takes to keep it that way and if they don’t then it is fine in their mind to violate it however they like. Let me explain this a little further. On the end of Long Island, NY there is severe natural erosion taking place that is causing much of the end of the island to disappear, at least this would be the case if environmentalists weren’t stepping in and constantly bringing sand and rocks to replace what is being eroded. It is amazing that they do not want to let nature take its course there and are more than willing to interfere with what “nature wants”. It is equally amazing that no one questions what other place or places are being destroyed to supply all the sand and rocks being used to replace the erosion. These are the sorts of questions that are never asked by the environmentalists.
If we were to mine all the silver in the world, use it for whatever we wanted and then put it all back in the ground in one place, wouldn’t that just be a new silver mine? As for paper, all it is, is wood. If trees grow, die and fall down on the ground what is the difference between that and paper? Oh you might say, but the paper has glue in it… and just where did that glue come from? How about concrete? All it is, is various forms of rock, dust, and water, so again what does it matter if we leave it lying on the ground with all the rest of the rocks. It might be true that there are certain chemical combinations that are toxic that don’t exist naturally or at least commonly in nature as a combination, and yes in those situation I believe it would only be wise to dispose of them properly.
Is there a reasonable side to ecology, and taking care of the environment? Most certainly! Does the fact that some men have been irresponsible mean that other men have to be unreasonable in the way they deal with protecting the environment? I don’t think so. We have reached the point where we have certain days we’re allowed to burn things on. We also seem to think that by depriving ourselves of modern conveniences such as heat and fuel, that this will make the planet cleaner. It is much like the issue of the pipeline which has been in the news of late. We behave as though our not using that oil is going to protect the environment when we are clearly aware that if we don’t use it other nations will. The byproducts from using it will be the same to planet there as here. All we are doing is trading off what will happen locally, but then this shows that the environmentalists are not really thinking about the planet, there is some other agenda afoot, or they would insist that the Canadians and for that matter the Arabs and other oil producing nations would simply stop using oil altogether. This is certainly not going to happen.
Again I ask, “Should we be responsible?” And again I also say, “This does not mean we should be unreasonable!” It is long past the time that we get a handle on this insanity. We need to realize that the earth is not a finite source of material for us to use. It is self replenishing and most every resource on it is either renewable or reusable. Most people act as though man is the only one putting oil in the oceans through shipping disasters. They do not seem to realize that more than a 100 times the amount man has put in accidently over all the time of shipping we’ve had does not equal the amount that naturally leaks into the ocean from the ocean floor in a year.
We behave as though our use of CO2 generating fuels is adding some significant amount of CO2 into the Earth’s atmosphere, but we want to look the other way when we find out that ONE volcano going off puts more CO2 into the air than all the cars in the world produce in a year. Now consider that in any given there are 50-60 volcanic eruptions. That means that in the last 2 years volcanoes have put more CO2 into the environment than all the cars ever driven by men since we invented them. We think too highly of ourselves when we think that we are really capable of such grand things, even on purpose.
Yet the politically correct crowd of environmentalists would have us believe we alone are responsible for pushing the planet over the edge on global warming. Global warming is not only not a settled science, but there are even scientists, and not a few, who now believe we are heading toward a mini ice age. Have we changed our behavior that much? Or are we now responsible for that as well?
What we need are more people with a spine to start pressing back against the insanity and unreasonable allegations being made by whacko environmentalist and politically correct nay sayers. They act as though they are the only repository for truth and if you believe differently than they do you must be wrong and must be pressed into silence. SHOW SOME SPINE!
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