Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Environmentalists to put humanity on endangered species list

Several environmental groups today filed a federal lawsuit against big power companies today, stating evidence that shows that all electricity generation is harmful to the environment. In other news, in the event that they win their lawsuit, the environmental groups are planning a lawsuit against all people in order to prevent them from defecating, urinating, getting sick, or dying. The environmental groups plan to present evidence that this human biological waste is devastating to the environment, especially when there is no electricity to aid in safe waste treatment. They plan on asking the courts to ban the practice of human life immediately. Then they plan to petition the Federal Government to put mankind on the endangered species list.

Okay, none of the above is true, but it illustrates my point. Environmentalists fail to understand one simple fact about our environment: We are part of it. Because of that, we will always have an impact on it, for better or for worse. I am willing to give the environuts kudos for wanting to be good stewards of the environment, but too often they don't factor into their thinking that humans will always have the biggest footprint in our environment because we are the most advanced species on the planet. This short sightedness leads them to chase initiatives that sometimes can be more harmful than the status quo.

This post was inspired by a couple of items in the news recently. The first is this story from the USA Today about the carnage electricity producing wind turbines creates amongst predatory and migratory bird populations. The second is this story out of Oak Creek, Wisconsin, where an environmentalist lawsuit has halted work on a new coal generator which is important to meeting Wisconsin's power needs.

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