A little clarity for you Cheryl

My words tried to deal with reality..

Many of us are well aware the impact man has / is having on this planet... you'd have to be blind not to.

1. Plant and animal extinctions/population decline are perhaps the most obvious.

2. Landscape modification & habitat changes are also very obvious.

3. Natural/Mineral resource exhaustion is obviously rapidly approaching

4. Environmental pollution is also pretty obvious and still plagues much of the undeveloped world even though some headway has been made in developed states.

5. Currently there are measurements of increases in global sea temperature.. some suggest its related to a global warming, caused by man, rather than by nature or just plain cyclical. My opinion (along with many others) is there may be something in this..but its by NO means CERTAIN.

Given that there is a link from sea temperatures to weather formations like Katrina then ... the link from 5.) above to Katrina being cuased by MAN is tenous given the already recorded CYCLICAL nature of such weather formation.

WHAT I and many others complain about is the SCARE MONGERING... just like with "paper" in the 80's.

SCAREMONGERING that links every natural EXTREME of our weather system with MAN-MADE global warming.

I dont want to see jackbooted greens telling me that I've goto do this, that, or other JUST like they did over PAPER in the 80's.

I really *** HATE *** people who KNOWINGLY LIE and DECEIVE the mass of ignorant (and we are all ingnorant to some extent in some subject areas) fellow citizens who RELY sound advice and solid analysis from them who purport to KNOW what they are expounding.

My experience of the 80's was that educated environmentalist WHO KNEW (and were told for certain) that there was NO link between PAPER and RAINFOREST trees (remember the footage of all the Amazonian tree fellings?).
Wre so FULL of their OWN hunger fior POLITICAL power that they KNOWINGLY DECEIVED (lied to) the public.

Cheryl, there are public standards for drinking water. If there is a problem then you all need to get together, have some samples professionally analysed, and then start a class action, if the authorities dont take any action themselves.

Complacency it NEVER to be encouraged but satisfaction is to be applauded and excellence is attainable everywhere.

Today the environmentalist lobby has NO clear DIRECTION much of hwat it wants is contradictory made up of things it doesnt want.

I've seen environmentalist BIRD watchers (ornithologists) STOP the building ALL over the world of SEA-TIDAL power stations & dams. These would have slowed global consumption of fossils fuels 20 years ago. BUT NO .. theyt dont want them. They make too big an impact on certain animal (mainly bird) populationa. Such short sightedness. Each piece of OLD habitat destroyed brings an opportunity for new colonization in the new habitat.

Hitting us with badly thought out DONTs will not work...TRY coming up with some solutions that your own lobby will agree to.

And please dont say .. we must shut down planet earth inc. - its not an option at the moment.

Options that are available - TIDAL POWER - really - there is millions of times more energy in the TIDAL power of the SEA than EVERYTHING mankind uses today, even without an enrgy conservation strategy.

Take America/Europe/S.E Asia for example..

There are many many CROSS estuarine/channel road bridge/barrage/dams that could be built to power nearly ALL of Europe and much of Canada. But your *birdmen* wont let them be built! Simple TIDAL turbines generating energy with roads and ports and aquaculture / aquasports in pay for much of the build cost.

Take Nothern Europe for example - Britain to Irleand, Britain to France, Holland, Belguim, Norway etc. Scandanavia could build dozens of them. N. Ireland has Loch Foyle and Eire has Sligo bay as well as many potential sea dams to small just offshore islands. Its tidal current you are after. This passes 4 (2 in & 2 out) times a day in huge quantites. Scotland has Lochs, Norway has Fiords, & England has the HUGE channel to its south and east.

All the way down the French coastline to Spain ansd all the way down the African Coastline.

What about Canada .. truely massive.

The trick is to initially build these dams for multiple USE and you dont really need to DAM the tide off completely. It should flow naturally - you just take a PERCENTAGE of its power. Have you seen the signs that spin round outside of shops - thats basically all you need - on a larger scale.

Look at all the bridges there are in the Florida area down towards the Keys. Instead of building roads on STILTS build on WIDE banks/causeways punctuated by bridges and power generator facilities.

Thats just for starters.. there SO much more!

RENEW