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   > On 10 May 23  13:26:34, George Pope said the following to August Abolins:   
   >> Ouch. In Richmond, here, it's illegal to provide plastic bags at checkout   
   >> free  or for-fee.   
   > When I was a little boy I remember the grocery stores switched from paper to   
   > plastic because of the trees... Oh we just have to save the trees. Save the   
   > trees, save the forest, which eventually became save the rainforest.   
   > What a bunch of liberal hippie nonsense. All of it.   
      
   Well. we kind of do need the rain forests -- that's the lungs of the planet   
   --  dunno about you but I like breathing our atmosphere, running about 21%   
   Oxygen  in the mixture. . .   
      
   The plastic bags issue is not one of pollution, as they don't alter the    
   environment, they only add to it -- & some people have deemed a 1,000-year    
   decomposition to be bad (it's UGLY!)    
      
   How do we know that Nature didn't evolve man explicitly to create plastic &    
   fill the landscape with it? This is a facetious argument made by George   
   Carlin, but I find it a reasonable question to ask the so-called eco   
   know-it-alls.   
      
   Ooh, there's a giant island of plastic in the ocean!   
      
   So what? The ecosystem has adapted to it just fine -- removing the island in   
   a  clean-up will result in the deaths of thousands of creatures who now call   
   it  home.   
      
   Maybe humans need to STFU and realize that the world doesn't give a   
   {Senatorial opinion} about humans -- we're just one more partially evolved   
   creature that  she made. . .     
      
   What will be will be, & so what -- I'm all for actions that directly reflect   
   on self-preservation (such as stopping the corporations who are clear-cutting    
   Brazil for the benefit of a scarce 0.01%'s gain, at the expense of everyone    
   else.)   
      
   I'm quite happy eating Canadian-grown food & breathing the universal   
   atmosphere before vested interests fleep it up for everyone else, while they   
   live in  sealed environments. (I only want to know: are these places   
   flammable? or  otherwise breachable? We could get military explosives if we   
   needed them.)   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-6   
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