05-20-2022, 08:22 AM
'Kay, now I want to cry.
'Cuz those trees are gone.
And now I want to scream.
'Cuz Canada is always lecturing the States about "the environment," but Canadians are a bunch of selfish bastards just like 'Mericans when it comes to HATING TREES!
People HATE TREES! I have come to believe this over the course of many years of observation. What is the first thing people do when they buy a new parcel of property, or even purchase an existing home? CUT DOWN THE DAMNED TREES! Ideally, they'll strip everything with a bulldozer down to the bare dirt. If that's not feasible, they will cut down the biggest, oldest trees, "because it might fall on the house."
But oh, I donated five dollars to the World Wildlife Fund so that makes me a good person.
Yeah, well, those tigers are extinct because people HATE TREES and cut them down as fast as they can.
Okay, sorry about the rant, but... oh, look! There's Jake! Wasn't his whole movie supposed to be some kind of environmental statement? "I love that movie! I want to live on Pandora! I want to save the environment!" Oh, but -- let me cut down these trees first so I can pave a nice wide space to park my motorhome.
Now there's a new Pandora movie coming out... maybe... finally... after a decade and a half... and based on the teaser trailer, it looks like another "bad men with machines vs the environment" story. I think I'll go see that movie at the mega-multiplex at the mall, with its 200 acre parking lot where there used to be a marsh, but ick! Marshes are full of mosquitoes, so a parking lot is better.
Again, sorry about the rant. I was just reading articles about the environment, like, literally before I clicked on to this post, and I'm looking at the air outside filled with dust and smoke that's blowing in all the way from Las Vegas 187 linear miles away.
The tiger photos are beautiful, and effectively illustrate how a tiger's striped pattern allows it to blend in with the dappled sunlight on a forest floor. You know, back when there were forests.
'Cuz those trees are gone.
And now I want to scream.
'Cuz Canada is always lecturing the States about "the environment," but Canadians are a bunch of selfish bastards just like 'Mericans when it comes to HATING TREES!
People HATE TREES! I have come to believe this over the course of many years of observation. What is the first thing people do when they buy a new parcel of property, or even purchase an existing home? CUT DOWN THE DAMNED TREES! Ideally, they'll strip everything with a bulldozer down to the bare dirt. If that's not feasible, they will cut down the biggest, oldest trees, "because it might fall on the house."
But oh, I donated five dollars to the World Wildlife Fund so that makes me a good person.
Yeah, well, those tigers are extinct because people HATE TREES and cut them down as fast as they can.
Okay, sorry about the rant, but... oh, look! There's Jake! Wasn't his whole movie supposed to be some kind of environmental statement? "I love that movie! I want to live on Pandora! I want to save the environment!" Oh, but -- let me cut down these trees first so I can pave a nice wide space to park my motorhome.
Now there's a new Pandora movie coming out... maybe... finally... after a decade and a half... and based on the teaser trailer, it looks like another "bad men with machines vs the environment" story. I think I'll go see that movie at the mega-multiplex at the mall, with its 200 acre parking lot where there used to be a marsh, but ick! Marshes are full of mosquitoes, so a parking lot is better.
Again, sorry about the rant. I was just reading articles about the environment, like, literally before I clicked on to this post, and I'm looking at the air outside filled with dust and smoke that's blowing in all the way from Las Vegas 187 linear miles away.
The tiger photos are beautiful, and effectively illustrate how a tiger's striped pattern allows it to blend in with the dappled sunlight on a forest floor. You know, back when there were forests.
They're not dolls, they're action figures!