Originally Posted by rporter314
I like your approach to the environment .... frak it

Suppose we had a Darwinian approach to the environment. Every land owner could do whatever they wanted to do.

You would be in favor of strip miners denuding mountains and poisoning ground water
You would be in favor of oil companies spilling oil all over creation and poisoning ground water
you would be in favor of refineries polluting the atmosphere
you would be in favor of cutting all the trees down without replacement
you would be in favor of farmers overusing land until it couldn't grow a weed
etc

I believe the federal government is legitimate and has my approval to provide for the general welfare. Whereas you would prefer a wasteland for your window view, I prefer something more. Something which will provide generations of Americans the opportunity for continued use of the land.

Again in one word.
NO!
Those are your own wicked misunderstandings of what I say.
Why do you and others presume that I or other landowners would destroy our property?
Why do you presume that faceless agencies representing a collective of misinformed voters would do a better job? Or even more, that it be necessary to have them do it?

All the experience from history of collective care of anything, proves that what even the greens call the tragedy of the commons is true. The experience from the Soviet era is a striking example. We covered this already in another thread. Did you not pay attention?

Cowardly men always plot to label Freedom as anarchy!