Conservation Archive

1.14.2007 - CONSERVATION vs. ENVRIONMENTALISM: Sprinkled throughout these extremists are a whole host of rational, concerned citizens who believe, as did Theodore Roosevelt: "To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."  These people need a rational home for their views, and they don’t want to share it with a man shouting "murder" every time a fly is swatted... |

1.7.2007 - A LESSON IN CONSERVATION: If drilling in ANWR were a question of developing all 19,000,000 acres of land, there are some who would still support the effort, recognizing the staggering importance of energy independence in a world where massive stockpiles of oil are controlled by Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and duplicitous Saudi sheiks... |