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BRhaco
at Fri Feb 12 10:03:32 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BRhaco ]
You can always find reasons to not do something new. But I've been on this planet now a half-century, and I have seen with my own eyes the great good that environmental regulations have done in this country. These things are not always apparent over the short term. For example:
The White River, near where I grew up in Indiana, ia now a great place for kids to go fishing and wading, thanks to the Clean Water Act. When i was a child-no fish at all, and we were not allowed to go near the White, it was THAT toxic! This success was repeated countless times throughout North America. Remember the "river that caught fire, the Cuyahoga in Cleveland? Well, that river is so clean now that it sports runs of salmon and steelhead! That is something to be proud of.
Thanks to the Clean Air Act, lead levels and sulfur dioxide have been reduced to trace amounts-when I was young these substances were causing a variety of health problems, especially in Urban areas. Also, Acid rain has been substantially reduced, to the point that life is returning to many high-altitude lakes.
Endangered species like the eastern peregrine falcon, whooping crane, California condor (there were only a couple dozen individuals of these three left)and even bald eagle were literally on the brink of extinction-all exist now in multiple, safe populations, thanks to the ESA.
Now we're supposed to believe that we should go on like we always have because change would be "too hard"??? Well, you can stuff it.
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Brad Chambers
WWW.HCU-TX.ORG
Breeder of:
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You know what? - BRhaco, Fri Feb 12 10:03:32 2010
