Comment by foundZero

Entered on: 5/4/2009 1:00:29 PM

Mr. Morris, it is indeed time for you, me and other like-minded persons to bring environmentalism to serious discussion. I agree with the substance of your criticisms of Frosty's approach, however the larger challenge is to insert the dialog. We don't need less of Frosty, we need more people engaging.

My observation is that of a core libertarian ethic: do what you want as long as you don't harm others. Formed as it was from conservative ideas that long predate our awareness of environmental impact, the core observation is simple (regardless of how difficult it might be to put into practice).

The fact is that we now understand the Earth to be a complex and unified system where inputs on one side have outputs on the other. We can now understand and prove that industrial pollutants effect all of us globally. That plastic can now be found in almost all of the fish in the ocean, that mercury is now present in most of our ground water and the water itself isn't fit to drink speaks of great crimes against this ethic.

Anti-environmentalists can agrue about global warming, acid rain or the fact that athsma is now epidemiologically concentrated to urban and manufacturing areas, but increasingly they will have to prove that the environment itself doesn't exist to maintain their position.

And that's why I haven't published on the subject to date. My point is simple and requires little elucidation. You seem much better prepared to get into the issue.

Onward and upward!