The Environment Strikes Back

I remember eagerly awaiting the sequel to Star Wars. After the sci-fi movie went to become the bigger than life space opera, the whole world (or at least the fans) clamored for the next installment. We got a bigger and better vision of the adventures of Luke and Darth. But this is not about the '80 box office. This is about what not to do to fix non-problems. Well now we have proof of what happens when we try to interfere with mother nature. (Didn't there used to be a butter commercial that said that.) We have tried to save the environment and due to the interference of man, we have destroyed what we wanted to save.

Dateline: An island off the coast of Australia.

Feral cats were removed from the island of Macquarie causing an ecological disaster. The cats were removed to save the native seabirds. Unfortunately they did not see the outcome of removing the natural predators from the island. Once the felines were removed, the rabbit population exploded and destroyed the vegetation the sea birds depended on for cover. Now the sea birds are even in greater peril and it will cost $24 million to fix the problem. Once again the attempts of the liberal environmentalist wackos to force their agenda on us not only makes the problem worse but costs tax dollars to clean up.

Now look at global warming. It is a natural Earth cycle or just plain random weather making people think that "things they are a changin." We are being goaded into changing what we are doing, trying to force higher taxes to burn fossil fuels, and even suggesting that America bare the brunt of the cost to clean up a non-existent mess. If they truly get their way and we put system in place to reverse the percent of carbon dioxide in the air, we may end up killing all plants on Earth. After all, they depend on CO2 to live. Oh well. They didn't mean to kill us all, it was just their short sightedness.

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Cobb