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Originally Posted by Jives
I grew up in the wilderness of Montana and Colorado. My father and I went to places men had ever been, untouched, unspoiled. When we camped, we opened a hole in the sod to make a fire pit, when we left we replaced the sod and even fluffed the grass back up. You literally couldn't tell we had been there. The deer were so tame they would eat out of your hand. Herds of Pronghorn Antelope crossed the highway in thousands.
(We were backpackers, true nature lovers, and we disdained anyone who even rode horses into the back country as lazy bums who stunk up the trail with horse manure.)
Now....quadrunners and dirtbikes howl down the trails. Snowmobiles shatter the silence of the Winter. People go "camping" in house sized RV's with satellite TV and microwaves.
Even the canyons around my house, which were once beautiful cedar and spruce forests, are now illegal dumping grounds, the sandstone covered with graffitti, and the trees cut by illegal loggers.
Mankind will destroy all nature soon. I give us about a millenium, possibly as short as a couple of hudred years. It'll be all gone.
Ever see that movie, "Silent Running"? It's going to come true. I long ago gave up fighting the inevitable, nature and all it's beauty is under a death sentence from mankind. So all you hunters out there...you'd better hurry up and get your quota!
Put those heads up on the wall for your grandchildren to see, because that and an occasional TV documentary are all that they will ever have.
You can argue against me, but you know in your heart it's true. The Earth is doomed.  |
I love this line "true nature lovers" as opposed to what? "un-true nature lovers"? You back packers would not know horse ***** from bear *****!! I was raised running cattle in the Sierra Nevadas' of CA., just as my father, grandfather and his father had for years. Weird that all the conservation minded people say these same lands that have been abused (their words) for years are the "LAST OF THE PRISTINE LANDS LEFT ON EARTH". Weird huh. Explain why that might be?
Did you bother to read the article? Do you believe that this land was managed by Native Americans prior to our arrival? Heaven forbid.......
Do you dipute the proof that resting the land for years is more detrimental than "Smart Grazing"
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"Oh God forbid, no! In the classroom, my message is universally positive and optimistic! I would never let out a single pessimistic view there!"
I find it hard to believe with your Nay_Sayer attitude, that it is not rubbed off on your students to some degree. I know I had a few Nay-Sayer teachers in my day.