[TheRealVille]

Well, recorded history only goes back around 6000 years. How many thousand are we talking here? You're saying mankind should in effect go into a sort of national/global economic hibernation, while science catches up with the whimsical notions of the liberal la-la's? How clean would the evironment necessarily need to be to allow man to once again, live life to the fullest?

I don't mind a bit to tell you what I think. All this foolishness about the sky falling, is the stuff of children's books. Simple minded ideology without taking the practical issues it entails into serious consideration. You are proposing to enslave mankind by the manifest destiny of John Lennon's "imagine". A pipedream where snail darters play and everybody drives a clean electric car around on clean streets with wind turbines all awhirl overhead.

I prefer to have things the way the Lord intended and clearly stated as follows;

Genesis 1:26-28 (KJV)
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.


God made the earth for man to enjoy and use for his needs. I agree as much as anyone that stewardship is important and we are responsible as such to be good stewards. Therefore, clean air isn't a bad idea by any means. Man learned as he achieved, and became aware of threats and likely threats to the environment. America, unlike the entire world around us, has answered the call to be diligent in our use of this world's resouces and the pollution that we have caused. Our response has been entirely adequate and we now treat the world around us with respect and have been become very good at understanding, protecting and policing the environment. Where conservatives and liberals part ways is at the altar of worship the environmentalist insists on at the expense of what is best and necessary for the good of society.

We can and will get better. We don't need the environmentally obsessed, sociological imaginations of some liberal ideologue, with dillusions of grandeur, choking the life out of the folks that work for a living, especially in the white house. America works, we don't need to be fundamentally transformed.

Actual history goes back about 3.5 billion years. Tell that 6000 year stuff to someone that believes it. The 6K stuff is only one thing that makes religious people look like kooks. I read a Louis L' amour book once that talked about the Big Sandy valley, and that was more real. It had actual facts in it.