It is typical of those who are devotees of the "religion" of environmentalism to forget that human beings are also part of nature. We do not somehow stand apart from nature, as if nature is some kind of machine we have to keep well oiled, or it will break and fall apart. Nature is a wonderful self-adjuster; it will continue to recover and make allowances for our tinkering...in spite of our fears.
I wonder how many environmentalists and their attorneys would like it if it was decided, in the best interests of the "health" of the San Francisco Bay, to remove the Golden Gate and SF-Oakland Bay bridges? Or...to bulldoze their beautiful Marin County bay-side condos, because they might be polluting sea-otter habitate? Not many...
No matter what a person or organization claims as their world-view, unless they are willing to follow their philosophy to its logical conclusion, they are being intellectually dishonest. It seems to me that the logical conclusion of the environmentalist world view is that humans return to their pre-historic way of life, and remove all signs of human progress and go back to the Stone Age. How many environmentalists would be willing to do that? I know a couple who might be willing for a few weeks or days at a time, but not for a life-time.
