I love the environment. I also consider myself an ecologist and an environmentalist. Now, before you go whacko and call for my head on a stick, I also believe in the policies that call for using our natural resources, not abusing them. I was raised in Alaska and Arizona, where wide-open spaces called for adventures, camping, hunting, fishing, hiking, and yes, four-wheeling. It's in my blood, and I really get excited and thrilled to be in the great outdoors. It's what humans are supposed to do. We are part of nature. A lion or bear or tadpole is no more or less natural than we are.
It makes me cringe when I see the blatant destruction of our natural habitat for no legitimate purpose. But what I feel is worse are those who declare themselves saviors of our environment, who go to great lengths to brainwash America as well as the world to "save the planet" from the dreaded humans.
And I finally figured out who "they" are. It must be aliens taking over our world, as blatant man-bashing is representative of this new way of thinking. It has to be aliens. No human could be so nuts. It is simply counterproductive to the human race. I first realized this on a hike in Yellowstone, where an official sign proclaimed, "The area behind this sign was destroyed by a fire started by humans." So humans are bad and do terrible things to our world. Damn humans! But it got me thinking: If we are so bad, then we really should just let the nonexistent greenhouse gases and bogus global warming kill us off. That way the aliens would have this planet to themselves. It must be their way of gaining control.
It's insidious in fact. This started years ago when misguided humans did indeed foul the water and air and run roughshod over the land. After the adoption of laws to clean up pollution and prevent further damage, our water and air have never been better, but this goes ignored by the aliens. Now they are brainwashing our children in school with scare tactics and misleading statistics. Children actually believe that sea levels are rising at an alarming rate, and we will all drown. They are taught that the ozone hole is growing and we will boil in our own juices, and that big oil and big industry are greedy and bad. The truth is that most scientists know this is Chicken Little science ("The sky is falling!") but their voices go unheard.
In actuality, the earth changes its climate as often as we humans change our underwear. That's a fact. One look at the geologic record and anyone (even aliens) can see that the planet changes dramatically over time. The miniscule changes we have recently been able to measure are of no concern to the earth. Humans are but a tiny blip on the radar screen of a planet six billion years old, and in 10,000 years we probably won't even be around to see what damage we didn't really do.
Does this mean we should go and trash the earth? Absolutely not. There is a difference between those of us who want to take care of the land through stewardship and those who demand land closures. If the aliens win, we will never be able to go off road again. That is a fact. Do your part and teach your children the truth about our world, and let them make up their own minds rather than letting them be brainwashed by a bunch of aliens.-Rick Pw