just another persons waste of time
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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.: From Matt Bivens Daily Outrage :.
01 March 2004
.: From Matt Bivens Daily Outrage :.
Shortsighted men ... in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things. -- Theodore Roosevelt.
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Even those of us familiar with this Administration's record can be shocked when someone pulls us back to show us the big picture. The March/April 2004 issue of the Sierra Club's magazine (which, vexingly, isn't available on-line yet) takes a look at what George W. Bush has been doing with our public lands.
The article, "Our Great Estate," notes that Teddy Roosevelt preserved for the public 240 million acres -- while the Bush Administration has weakened protections on 234 million of those acres.
Under the headline "The Big Bite," the article sports a graphic of the United States -- minus Texas and Oklahoma. Sierra Magazine reports, "The Bush Administration has already opened an area larger than Texas and Oklahoma combined to logging, mining, and oil extraction."
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Posted by: Peter - 8:26 PM MST
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