These kind of reports make my blood boil?
<< The US has the same amount of forest coverage and natural forests that it had 80 years ago. >>
I have to laugh every time I see quotes like this. When you break down the sentence you can see that it should have come from the mouth of Rush Limbaugh, the biggest liar and apologist for the right wing nuts: the same amount of forest coverage AND natural forests that it had 80 years ago means that you have x amount of acres that are designated on maps as ?forest.? That does not mean that there are actually trees on that ground, or that the trees on that ground are of a diverse nature and the forest they supposedly inhabit is healthy. You lump in the forests that the loggers have raped with the forests protected by the US government as well. The figure in itself is leading and incomplete.
An example of where these ?statistics? lie:
If the loggers cut down 5,000 acres and turn the forest ground to mush, and replace those trees with saplings, all of the plants that used to live in the shade die, the fauna that lived on the dead trees and used the smaller plants for protection die, and the variety of the ecosystem is greatly reduced. But hey, there is nothing wrong with that, because those 5,000 acres are still considered forest. And isn?t it interesting that he chooses to go back 80 years? Would you care to bet that we only have HALF the number of acres of forests that were here a hundred years ago? This kind of lying reminds me of the time that Rush said there were more Indians in America now then there were 200 years ago.
<< Global warming is happening, however the earth is MUCH cooler now than it used to be. (Is it worth it to spend TRILLIONS of dollars on sketchy science?) >>
Yeah, 200 million years ago, the earth was a sauna. And the oceans were a couple hundred feet higher than they are now. That ?sketchy science? is trying to figure out a way to prevent places like New York City and the entire state of Florida from ending up underwater.
<< One landfill that is 11 square miles and 100 yards deep would be big enough to take all of AMERICA'S garbage for 100 fricken year! >>
What is this supposed to prove, that we don?t produce that much trash? You are never going to get a hole like that dug, you are never going to get Americans to agree on a location for such things, and you are still going to have toxic waste dumps fouling up our groundwater. The statement is just plain stupid; I don?t know why I spent 1 minute refuting it.
<< Pollution is DOWN significantly from where it was in the early 1970's. >>
I am sure that our good buddies, the Republicans were responsible for the reduction in pollution, right? Also, just because it is down, does that mean we are in good shape? I tell you what, take a glass and fill it with gasoline. Now pour half of it out and drink it. Hey, you only are half as polluted as you would have been! You will die just as quickly, but what the hell?
Genetic foods and BGH increase productivity and help people in starving nations with NO evidence of harm to humans. >>
When Marie Curie died of radiation poisoning, the so-called ?experts? said that Uranium was harmless as well. The jury is still out on BGH and the like; to say that these things are safe is jumping the gun at best and dangerous oversimplification at worst.
Just because the infant mortality rate, childhood cancer rate, and genetic diseases have exploded in this country does not mean we have environmental factors to blame. It must be the liberal brainwashing that caused my healthy neighbor to have a child with multiple birth defects.
Finally, one has to wonder how a report like this even aired, considering how ?liberal? the media is in America.
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