Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Is It Part of The DNA?

For the last 20 years, people have been pointing out hypocritical acts and attitudes of our contemporary eco freaks and tree huggers. Recently, one young lady in England even insisted on having surgical sterilization so she would never have any children to disturb the environment.

Today, Sigmund, Carl, and Alfred posted a long, interesting article enumerating instances of environmentalists evicting natives from their habitat in order to preserve the habitat since the discovery of Yosemite. Despite the fact the Miwoks had been living there for around 4,000 years, they were deemed detrimental to the preservation of the environment and cruelly eliminated in what became “The Yosemite Model.” And about sixty years later, Yosemite opened as a national park without any native residents. Read the whole piece for more specifics and examples.

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