Re: Stop BushPollution and save our environment!

[bcurrie100 at comcast dot net]

Dear all,

 

Well, I have kept quiet on this, but since I am a trained mental health professional, been practicing almost 15 years now, let me state this.  Yes, any type of politics has the possibility to affect the environment.  However, to state that is what this forum is for (i.e., to discuss politics which may or may not negatively affect the environment) has absolutely no validity.  It is purely a guess, and is actually called a cognitive distortion.  Mental health therapists call this employing the crystal ball technique; trying to predict the future when, in fact, it is an impossibility.  The past can in no way give anyone here on earth the ability to accurately predict the future.  Absolutely no one can say the environment would have been better off (or worse off for that matter) if Kerry had been elected.  Didn't happen (i.e., Kerry being elected), therefore, it is pure conjecture, which is definitely not what this forum was instituted for.

 

I once heard a saying, be careful what you ask for.  And should anybody want to e-mail me privately about this because you want to discuss things on this forum which are inappropriate -- Feel free to, I know how to use the delete button before I open your message, and how to block your e-mails.  However, if you want to discuss this on an appropriate political type forum, by all means, more power to you all.

 

Brian

 

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I agree 100% that we need to protect the environment for future generations to enjoy, as well as to protect the birds that we see now.

 

 

Anyone that thinks that politics don't affect birds needs to be evaluated by a trained mental health professional.  It's bad enough that the current administration used "morals" to get reelected, and neglected things such as Americans getting killed overseas, jobs being lost, many of us not having health insurance etc.

 

Good birding,

Richard

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: cllslp@msn.com

To: birdtalk@utahbirds.org

Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:23 PM

Subject: Re: [BirdTalk] Stop BushPollution and save our environment!

An individual (to remain anonymous) emailed me off list and asked me to keep politics out of the Bird Talk forum, and just post what birds I have seen, after I had posted a petition site to ask for peoples help in sending a letter to the Chief of the US Forest Service, in regards to the Bush administrations attempt to overturn the roadless rule policy that protects 58 million acres of intact forest lands.

I truly believe that the environment has everything to do with the birds that we all enjoy so much.

When we have an administration in power that is doing everything in their power to open forests, refuges, shorelines, wetlands etc. for continued resource exploitation, that puts critical habitats for migratory, endangered and threatened species of birds in danger, I feel it is very important to inform the public of such practices and to request people that care about the environment to sign petitions, send letters to congresspeople, Senators, etc.

If you feel that this is not important, please delete my emails.

I would hope that others would like to give the opportunity to future generations to see a Long-tailed Duck, Bald Eagle, Northern Spotted OwL, California Condor, Grasshopper Sparrow, Marbled Murrelet, Pileated Woodpecker, Peregrine Falcon, Piping Plover, Snowy Plover, Whooping Cranes, or any other bird that is being threatened from the loss of habitat and suitable nesting grounds.

Below is a link to the US Fish and Wildlife Division of Endangered, Threatened or believed to be extinct birds of North America:

 

 

 

http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/TESSWebpageVipListed?code=V&listings=0#B

 

Also, if you look at the number and species of plants and animals that are threatened, you will be able to see how all these species of life depend upon each other.

 

Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us.

- Aldo Leopold 1925

 

Peace,

Stephen Peterson

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