Are you suggesting we'd be better off if we put you on our Ignore Lists?
I wouldn't know....I have no 'ignore list.'
But, if you fear knowledge.....go right ahead.
We all have Ignore Lists. The software provides them. Whether or not we put anyone on them is a different matter. I had not considered putting you on my ignore list, but you seemed to be getting on Mamooth's case for being unable to ignore your posts.
I find it amazing and a little surprising that you and Foxfyre (and perhaps FreedomBecki?) hold and express such starkly anti-conservationist and anti-environmentalist views. It smacks heavily of the Shepherd view, in which it is opined that God created the Earth and everything in it to be at the service of humans - that there is NOTHING we can do to the Earth that is not an act blessed by God. Do you believe anything like that?
Do you believe in God?
Do you believe God created the Earth solely to serve humanity?
1. Again....as I have not availed myself of the function, I have no ignore list.
I feel competent to respond to any comments I choose to respond to.
If you feel inadequate.....ignore away.
2. "It smacks heavily of the Shepherd view, in which it is opined that God created the Earth and everything in it to be at the service of humans - that there is NOTHING we can do to the Earth that is not an act blessed by God. Do you believe anything like that?"
Now, see....you offered a response.
Wasn't that easy?
3. My view is that of Teddy Roosevelt and Pinchot:
Teddy Roosevelt, icon of conservation, along with his ideological soul-mate, Gifford Pinchot, head of the Division of Forestry (later the Forest Service), strongly believed in the preservation of forest lands. Their view of conservation saw waste as the problem…..not people. “He was a progressive who strongly believed in the efficiency movement. The most economically efficient use of natural resources was his goal; waste was his great enemy.”
Gifford Pinchot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4.
TR and Pinchot did not intend to set aside forests for perpetual pristine preservation. Their conservation was anthropocentric, a very different concept from modern environmentalists. No, their aim was to set aside resources for future development, for profit, and for the benefit of the many:
“The greatest good, for the greatest number, for the longest time” (the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham).
a. While John Muir fought against dams in Yosemite, TR and Pinchot felt that San FranciscoÂ’s need for water took precedence.
“With the creation of the National Forest Service within the Department of Agriculture, and with Pinchot as its first director, his view prevailed in Washington:
forests would be treated like a crop, not a temple. Pinchot prevailed again when he persuaded President Theodore Roosevelt to allow the construction of the Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite, despite Muir's vociferous objections.”
The National Parks: America's Best Idea: Historical Figures | PBS
5.
TR and Pinchot believed that the first duty of the human race is to control the earth on which we live; nature, they believed, is unable to do the job on its own.” Pinchot was generally opposed to preservation for the sake of wilderness or scenery, a fact perhaps best illustrated by the important support he offered to the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.”
Gifford Pinchot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
6. The TR/Pinchot plan was for
the preserves to be multiple use forests: for logging, for grazing, for mining and for recreation. The saw that efficient use is a way to maintain AmericaÂ’s position in the world.
7. Now get this, it will help you to understand the current motivation:
Today, the meaning of ‘environmentalism’ has been corrupted. More
Left-wing politics than science, it is correctly, if pejoratively, called the “Watermelon Movement:” green on the outside, but red on the inside.