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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.)

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