"Dave LaCourse" wrote


I doubt you will see any of the above in your lifetime.


I doubt it too ....
BUT,
it seems to me that one of the very biggest differences between the "sides"
on this issue is that some of us DO care what happens after we are gone, do
care what our great great grandkids and their great great grandkids have in
the way of public lands and the chance to experience and appreciate Nature.
We do care about whether THEY will have clean water and air and we are
WILLING to give up some toys, income, and excesses for them. And we are
WILLING to pay a little more in taxes, in our own lives, to help pass on a
better world.

To some of us this is just as important and as "deep" or religious an issue
as any the "morality" causes we see the Religious Right championing, as they
vote ( probably unknowingly, in most csses) to limit the quality of what
their offspring's offspring will inherit .... as Americans