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Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes
We should not take anything other than short-term profits into account when dealing with the environment.
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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
God tells us in Genesis the land, plants, animals, etc. are ours to use as we please. That includes water.
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This is truly Godly thinking. Slash and burn agriculture made us who we are today - our heritage. Modern industrial farming using chemicals and pumped ground water have transformed what was once plain native forest into an economic powerhouse of carbohydrates.
Instead of a simple, out-dated ecosystem (ugly trees and animal poop) we can look out and see pristine monoculture that fills our tables and arteries with a feast of corn, corn syrup, corn oil, sweet corn, popcorn, powdered cornflour, E218 (methyl parahydroxybenzoate), E216 (propyl parahydroxybenzoate), E1442 (hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate), and many other synthetic dyes and modified starches.
Moreover the once worthless common land is a source of generational wealth for private landowners who trickle it down onto lazy people who can't be bothered to have their own family estate - transitory migrant workers and cleaning staff. I picture it like that movie with the dwarves whistling happily while they work but instead of birds and squirrels and a white princess, corn.