Re: SER1 Greenpeace

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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
> >
> >To change subscription see www.landrover.net/series1/mail
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> Regards.
> 
> Tom Wykes.
> 
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