Re: SER1 Greenpeace

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I'm so with you Ian.  Nicely put.

Matthew
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On 5/16/05 9:35 AM, "Ian Balcom" <ian.balcom@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:

> Surprising to hear such anti-green sentiments being tossed about under
> the guise of humor.  Let's face it.  Unless we (humans from all sides
> of the planet) makes some concessions there will drastic and
> long-lasting negative quality of life repercussions for us and
> generations to come.  Why is it that people who are "consider myself
> green" types so quick to point towards the faults of the green
> movement?  I mean get real! no effort is without error! Especially one
> so huge and important as saving the environment.  If I protest to save
> a one-thousand year old tree (just a symbol mind you) from the
> clutches of a developers machine I will, without fail, anger not only
> the developer, but the land owner, the future renters or residents,
> and sometime even people who have no stake in the place but have a
> sort of allergic reaction to everything green, etc.  Those of you who
> are complaining about the relatively minor inconvenience of changes to
> fire break policy, archaic documentation for the Rainbow Warrior, or
> the observation that the latest generation of Land Rover is a gass
> sucking SUV with very little of its original utility left, or some
> some short haired hippy in a suit chaining himself to a tree to save
> it from the likes of another WalMart Mega-Store have got to ask your
> self where are your priorities?  Mine: good water, good air, healthy
> children, and lots of hopping, chirping, fuzzy creatures to keep the
> food chain functioning.
> 
> PS what the heck is an enviroterrorist? Have you ever met one? I feel
> personally attacked by such labels as I am whole heartily dedicated to
> such causes.  It would behoove us to stop labeling people we do not
> agree with.  A developer is a developer but not a developoterrorist.
> 
> On 5/16/05, Diana Alan <dianaa@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote:
>> Hi Guys
>> 
>> I've got a greenpiece in fact almost the whole car in green!
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Diana
>> 
>> P.S.  You can't have a decent discussion with many enviroterrorists.  Green
>> activists have had most of the fire access trails in virtually all of our
>> national parks closed to the public and even specialist groups.  The result
>> is that now the volunteer fire-fighters don't know where most of the trails
>> go and the effect of keeping the trails un-blocked by fallen trees which
>> used to happen with public access no longer occurs.  Lives of volunteer
>> fire-fighters will be lost with this closure if they haven't been already.
>> But the green terrorists don't care, what's one less human, they want
>> wilderness where only the exotic feral animals and exotic weeds are free to
>> breed.
>> P.P.S  I consider myself green and what's more I did Zoology as one of my
>> majors in my undergraduate science degree.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tom Wykes" <tw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>> To: <series1@xxxxxxxxx.xxx>
>> Cc: <Thomas.heap@xxx.xx.xx>
>> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: SER1 Greenpeace
>> 
>> A car company, who has 70% of all the cars it has ever made still on the
>> road, is as far as I'm concerned pretty "green".
>> 
>> Likewise every endangered species or humanitarian effort has had help from
>> a Land Rover in some form or other.
>> 
>> I'm fully in support of "green" issues but I wish these extremist would get
>> their facts right.
>> 
>> (Thomas I thought this would amuse you)
>> 
>> At 10:57 16/05/2005, you wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> Just seen this from the BBC:
>>> 
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4550593.stm
>>> 
>>> Maybe of interest......
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Mark
>>> Halifax UK
>>> 
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>> 
>> Regards.
>> 
>> Tom Wykes.
>> 
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