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Green Geeks?
sigmatt asks: "I've often wondered where Slashdot readers stand on environmental
issues. This might be considered a little off topic for this site, but so many programmers that I know, including myself, are outdoorsy
people in their other life, and I'm interested in the opinion of the wider geek community. The local issue in my part of the world at the moment is logging of old growth forests, primarily used for wood chips. The wood chips are not very valuable (as low as AU$7 a ton - that's US$3.50!), but it
is the easy option - and I suspect it leads to the highest profits and quickest company growth. Unfortunately, our wonderful forests - with
so many potential future uses (fine furniture, tourism, and, of course, my own hiking trips) are being wasted away at an alarming rate. Recently
the tactics of those opposing the practice of woodchipping our old growth forests have turned to attacking the tourism industry in order to try to make a government who won't listen change its mind. For example this site
ripping off
another site, and the posting of a controversial bill board in Sydney
airport. What do you think about these approaches?"
Beltway Sniper.
..then the terrorists have already won.
seriously, removing a CO2 sink? do you want to be roasting 50 years down the road when global warming is rampant?
We think that environmentalists need to get a life.
God said to Adam and Eve "Go forth and multiply." He most certainly did not tell His creations "Go smoke a joint and hug trees." Considering that each and every single one of us exists solely by the grace of God, I do not believe that it is really our place to argue with His will. Interpret His words all that you will, but His instructions to us were NOT "Follow a path of sustainable growth." Sustainable growth, of course, is a meaningless PC phrase which nobody is willing to define.
To issue blasphemy against God is to risk eternal damnation in the company of His brother, Lucifer. Repent, sinner!