6.29.2002
I'm not coherent enough to make a formal protest - having just woken up in the infant hours of the afternoon at 1:30PM. But after reading (all of) Jeff's post, a frustrated, wordless, sleep-heavy indignance has seized my fingers. So excuse the meandering post and try to sift out my meaning...
Jeff says - "Let's all just get along, because there is nothing we can do about anything after all. " And Chad calls me Cypher.
Do you work for Texaco Jeff? Just wondering. And did an environmentalist run over your puppy? Because you seem pretty Hell bent on showing everyone how futile it is to even try to stand up for the only planet we have. It may be a difficult fight, but just because the opponent is big and bad, does that mean you have to roll over and let them rape your "pristine wilderness"? And no, I've never been to Alaska, and no, I don't plan to ever go, but for God's sake (or should I say Mother Nature's), it sounds like you're fighting to have old Georgie tromp up into your woods and tundra and start hacking away. You never gave an explanation as to why - other than the shaky thriving caribou setup (which, by the way, is a fine explanation if you're fighting for a wilderness that depends on one of the most damaging industries man has created - and then you end up later on fighting to keep that one little bit of nature alive by continuing an otherwise all-harmful aspect of mankind - so the explanation is crap, to put it lightly). The only thing I'm left to deduce is that you're primary interest is in money. What would that drilling contribute to the Alaskan economy, Capitalist Jeff? Let's hear a run down of the engorged budget. Would you be getting new telescopes at the university's astronomy lab? Hooray for money, right? Fuck that. Roll over, you say. Things will happen. Ease them along. Bull shit. (I'm clearly getting too worked up for this.) You say not to fight the unwinnable war against the destruction of the planet and make environmentalists sound like crying children. Is our government wise and all-knowing? Would you have us not question their other policies as well? Because, if you stick to your logic (which, let me reiterate, seems to be "It's too hard to fight oil drilling, so why even try?"), than we might as well apply that to all our branches of government... (And then Jenny gets that tingling feeling as her political receptors sense that Jeff might be a {insert finger cross to ward off evil spirits here} conservative or, gasp, even worse - a Republican. So, do we just let the government take turns at our asses just as you say they should be given free reign to pound away at the environment? Because fighting the government is indeed hard... Yawn, we must be bored with that trivial fight too, I think.
"a developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods.
an environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods."
Let's revise this trite little piece of conservative, Rush Limbaugh-friendly, witticism, shall we?
"a developer is someone who wants to build a house so he/she can buy a new gas guzzling SUV for their trip to the capitalist pig convention.
an environmentalist is someone who already has an energy efficient house in the woods from which to watch and ponder ways to stop the devastation caused by the developer."
(I'm still asleep.)
So, whatever.... Maybe I'm way off base here. But I can't see other people in this blog supporting that same kind of "just get on your knees and like it" mentality.
And just for your information, Jeff, Jenny's a hardcore liberal, aspiring environmentalist who is looking into buying Honda's newest electric hybrid addition to nature's arsenal, recycles everything she can, running this computer off of hydroelectric power and doesn't see the point in letting bullshit continue just because some people think it's "inevitable."
Jeff says - "Let's all just get along, because there is nothing we can do about anything after all. " And Chad calls me Cypher.
Do you work for Texaco Jeff? Just wondering. And did an environmentalist run over your puppy? Because you seem pretty Hell bent on showing everyone how futile it is to even try to stand up for the only planet we have. It may be a difficult fight, but just because the opponent is big and bad, does that mean you have to roll over and let them rape your "pristine wilderness"? And no, I've never been to Alaska, and no, I don't plan to ever go, but for God's sake (or should I say Mother Nature's), it sounds like you're fighting to have old Georgie tromp up into your woods and tundra and start hacking away. You never gave an explanation as to why - other than the shaky thriving caribou setup (which, by the way, is a fine explanation if you're fighting for a wilderness that depends on one of the most damaging industries man has created - and then you end up later on fighting to keep that one little bit of nature alive by continuing an otherwise all-harmful aspect of mankind - so the explanation is crap, to put it lightly). The only thing I'm left to deduce is that you're primary interest is in money. What would that drilling contribute to the Alaskan economy, Capitalist Jeff? Let's hear a run down of the engorged budget. Would you be getting new telescopes at the university's astronomy lab? Hooray for money, right? Fuck that. Roll over, you say. Things will happen. Ease them along. Bull shit. (I'm clearly getting too worked up for this.) You say not to fight the unwinnable war against the destruction of the planet and make environmentalists sound like crying children. Is our government wise and all-knowing? Would you have us not question their other policies as well? Because, if you stick to your logic (which, let me reiterate, seems to be "It's too hard to fight oil drilling, so why even try?"), than we might as well apply that to all our branches of government... (And then Jenny gets that tingling feeling as her political receptors sense that Jeff might be a {insert finger cross to ward off evil spirits here} conservative or, gasp, even worse - a Republican. So, do we just let the government take turns at our asses just as you say they should be given free reign to pound away at the environment? Because fighting the government is indeed hard... Yawn, we must be bored with that trivial fight too, I think.
"a developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods.
an environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods."
Let's revise this trite little piece of conservative, Rush Limbaugh-friendly, witticism, shall we?
"a developer is someone who wants to build a house so he/she can buy a new gas guzzling SUV for their trip to the capitalist pig convention.
an environmentalist is someone who already has an energy efficient house in the woods from which to watch and ponder ways to stop the devastation caused by the developer."
(I'm still asleep.)
So, whatever.... Maybe I'm way off base here. But I can't see other people in this blog supporting that same kind of "just get on your knees and like it" mentality.
And just for your information, Jeff, Jenny's a hardcore liberal, aspiring environmentalist who is looking into buying Honda's newest electric hybrid addition to nature's arsenal, recycles everything she can, running this computer off of hydroelectric power and doesn't see the point in letting bullshit continue just because some people think it's "inevitable."
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