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offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-23 06:48 [#00281144]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



The Sierra Club is going to be responsible for even more
deaths of our our national forest service firefighters.

For fucks sake their endless litigation of efficent and
neccessary forest cleaning has already caused some of the
worst fires in the West Coast's history, and this shit is
just going to get worse.

Fucking hate those tools, ruining our environment one
lawsuit at a time :-(


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-23 23:40 [#00282028]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



no opinions on these evironmental wackos fucking our forests
as they get paid big? damn


 

offline Loogie from Oxford (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-23 23:43 [#00282029]
Points: 1371 Status: Lurker



Please explain for non-US people


 

offline Ctrl Alt Del from Ft. Worth (United States) on 2002-06-23 23:46 [#00282032]
Points: 2190 Status: Lurker



Fucking environmentalists. They tell us to "save the trees".
And then they go chop down a whole shit load of them to make
flyers that tell you about their next meeting. Then the
fliers blow everywhere and litter the place. I say we throw
the stupid environmentalists in the fire, and watch them
burn. It seems harsh, but its doing more help than harm.


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-24 00:49 [#00282141]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



Loogie-

On the West Coast of the US we have lots of national forest.
Huge areas of gigantic old trees.

Part of nature is to have fires burn down parts of a forest,
it's healthy. Creates new life, gets rid of all the dead
growth, and is part of the nature cycle.

With humans more and more in these forests, we can't let
them burn, they won't let them log any trees, so what MUST
be done to keep the forest healthy is clearing the
underbrush.

What a fire normally must do, burn out the small trees, burn
the fallen trees, we must do. Otherwise you set up a huge
fuel supply just waiting to burn.

What the Sierra Club does is prevents companies from comming
in and harvesting the already fallen trees. They say it
hurts the environment. So all this brush piles up that the
Sierra Club blocks the clearing of with lawsuits.

Their lawyers get rich and stop the forests from being
cleaned out.

A normal 150 year old pine tree is hard to light on fire,
but if you light the brush under it that naturally shouldn't
be there, then the whole canopy goes.

We are having the worst fires in Colorado, California and
Arizona. Why? The "environmentalists" are getting
paychecks from their litigation, and our fire fighters are
battling the worst shit nature can throw at them.

The Sierra Club roles in their dough as our boys die. They
have stopped the natural proccess with endless lawsuits, and
more people are going to die while they get fat with our
money.

One lawsuit at a time....our enviornment is dying


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-24 02:31 [#00282245]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



I was watching CNN, and even they were reporting that many
of these fires are being caused by fucking environmentalists
blocking the neccesary clearing of some of our forests.

Fires continue to burn at an alarming rate. Fuck the Sierra
Club.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-24 05:50 [#00282484]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



ignorant-ass thread, all i have to say is: www.pirg.org


 

offline nanotech from Sukavasti Amitaba Pureland (United States) on 2002-06-24 06:08 [#00282506]
Points: 3727 Status: Regular



here's somthing that caught my eye in a recent edition of
the "U.S. news" mag. last week or so, they had a snippit
article that explained that seal skins are a big problem in
canada. Over 80,000 skins were exported from the country.
The graphic acompaning the article was too guesome. It
actually showed a clubbing, while a HUGE boatload of skins
floated by in the background.

I know in america we have laws that make this illegal, which
is what the article was based on, but i'm sure we too have
our poachers.

So, to re-sumarize my point: Do you canadians think this is
a problem? are there any enviromental organizations tring
to get legislature passed? What are your personal opinions?


 

offline nanotech from Sukavasti Amitaba Pureland (United States) on 2002-06-24 06:21 [#00282514]
Points: 3727 Status: Regular | Followup to nanotech: #00282506



anyone? i thought this board was DOMINATED by canadians!


 

offline Amonbrune from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-06-24 06:28 [#00282516]
Points: 7327 Status: Addict



I hate the word Sierra Club...probably cause it reminds me
of the video game maker Sierra...I really dislike that word.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-24 06:35 [#00282519]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



sierra made leisure suit larry, that makes them cool. but i
digress. i must admit, i hate the sierra club too, but for
selfish reasons. i worked for a different environmental
group, one which does a whole lot more important and
dignified things and yet receives a fraction of the credit.
essentially, sierra club just hold press conferences and do
publicity things while PIRG actually gets environmental laws
changed and enforced (PIRG also upholds consumer rights and
fights for people's health, as you'll find out at pirg.org).
so it just pisses me off when people talk highly of and/or
contribute to sierra club when PIRG is doing all the work.


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-25 04:19 [#00283952]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



titsworth-what made this thread ignorant if you claim to
understand the situation.

The Sierra Club is killing the environment and people should
know. Please explain how that is ignorant.


 

offline MAGICNINJA from G-ville of tha FL (United States) on 2002-06-25 04:28 [#00283956]
Points: 174 Status: Lurker



I'll be honest, I never knew about this method of cleaning
forests or the Sierra Club. But I already hated the type of
liberal people that would be affiliated to the club. Crap
like this is making our country look like a bunch of
panzies. I will now educate people that i know about this.
Thank you BlatantEcho.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-26 04:21 [#00285185]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



oh please, like someone living in fucking oregon (the most
pro-logging state in the nation) is going to tell ME (a huge
environmentalist and a former employee of the most important
environmental/consumer advocacy organization) that i'm
ignorant of the environment.


 

offline MAGICNINJA from G-ville of tha FL (United States) on 2002-06-26 04:54 [#00285211]
Points: 174 Status: Lurker



hey titsworth, you sound pretty ignorant yourself when you
relate location to who a person is. by that means, you must
be deeply into drugs and poverty, youre from DC after all.


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:01 [#00285276]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



I live in California.


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:01 [#00285278]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



born in New York too


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:02 [#00285280]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



college in Oregon

so, your math, that makes me a surfing, jewish, hippie?

hum......listen to MagicNinja


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:06 [#00285282]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



*rolls eyes* i don't care if you were born in new jersey,
sodomized in venezuela, and baptized in oregon, it's still a
hugely anti-environmental movement state


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:08 [#00285284]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



but what does Oregon have to do with anything?

You aren't thinking in a very rational maner. Nor are you
in any way citing evidence that can lead to any other
conclusion than the one I gave.

Please use some facts or something?? maybe?


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:11 [#00285289]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



some facts about what? we're not debating oregon here, but
the environment. and i can't really even debate you on the
environment cos i don't know what you're on about.


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:16 [#00285292]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



My thesis was effectivly that the Sierra Club is one of the
ultimate culprits responsible for the tremendously
destructive and deadly fires the west coast is suffering.

You claimed the thread was ignorant. Cited no evidence.

I assume you disagree, as you took quite a stance opposed to
my argument, yet have offered no evidence other than a state
in which I attend school.

Put up or shut up.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:21 [#00285297]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



because since the beginning you've ignored other factors
that are more to blame, such as the government's pro-logging
and mining industry stances/(lack of) regulations and the
tactics used by loggers that got us into this mess to begin
with. although sierra club aren't blameless, they wouldn't
have done what they did if it weren't for far more serious
problems such as very weak forest protection (which is
desperately needed, as you'd understand if you went to the
PIRG site).


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:27 [#00285302]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



I visted the PIRG site, and browsed my home state's specfic
site a bunch.

If we had such a pro logging government, there wouldn't be
trees to burn.

Responsible logging and small scale burning, even in our
National Forrests, is the only way to prevent more
impossible fire storms such as we are seeing now.

Of course, non of this can happen with the lawyers of the
Sierra Club keeping anyone interested in natural forrest
managment at bay.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:33 [#00285310]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



wouldn't be trees to burn!!!!! like trees don't ever grow!!
haha!

there's a difference between pristine wilderness and tree
farms. we have very little pristine wilderness left because
of logging and weak regulation. i'm not opposed to logging,
just it needs to be better regulated. i suggest you
familiarize yourself better with logging practices and
exactly WHAT groups like PIRG and sierra club are battling
for.


 

offline BlatantEcho from All over (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:45 [#00285314]
Points: 7210 Status: Lurker



"wouldn't be trees to burn!!!!! like trees don't ever grow!!

haha!"
This was your reply to my query about how you could ever
consider us a pro logging society. If we were so, there
wouldn't be the fuel that is currently burning away on the
west coast. You laughed at me and pointed out that trees do
in fact grow......

With that titsworth, and with all due respect, I will not
continue a dialouge as I do not believe you will continue in
a socratic or charitble manner. Both are imperative if
anything is to be reasoned from our words.

I can't speak for PIRG, and I have made no claims abut them,
i simply don't know enough to make any educated statments.

For clarification, on the outside, the Sierra Club is for
protection of the environment. Also on the outside, our
country is figting a war on terrorism.

I feel that extremists in any form are harmful, and in this
case, the extreme environmentalists are very much
responsible for the enourmous fires that are sweeping our
country. Their attitued is not a logial one, nor will they
faciliate a plan or dialouge that will result in pro active
measures to be implemented to protect our forests and our
people around them.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-06-26 06:51 [#00285323]
Points: 14550 Status: Lurker



sierra club are far from extreme environmentalists (like
green peace). anyway, it's fine you don't want to continue
cos you don't know your environmentalist facts which makes
the whole discussion moot anyway. some of what you say i
agree with (some environmentalist groups aren't rational or
willing to make compromises), and some of it just baffles me
with its misinformation. it just seems like
anti-environmentalist propoganda, something right wing nuts
would spread (without caring to know the truth on the
matter).


 


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