i find both liberals and conservatives not satisfying my position when it comes to the environment.
on one hand, i believe that we should ban using chemicals--herbicides and pesticides--on our food sources.
on the other, i think that we should be growing more gmo (genetically modified organisms) than we are now.
i think we should protect as much wilderness as we can through national parks and wildlife refuges without sacrficing the resources contained in the land. selective logging weeds out old growth, allows new life, and shrinks the risk of wildfire. minerals and fuels can be found and mined judiciously without destroying the ecosystems.
fossil fuels provide cheap energy, but offer too much pollution. alternate forms provide the energy without the pollution. alternate like nuclear. there should be a reactor on every street corner. we have technology to safely dispose of the waste (breeder reactors, send the spent rods to space, make more nuclear missles), but there is a fear created by the hippie that keeps us from this solution.
while the release of pollutants and the destruction of ecosystems to make way for our cities and roads and farms does have an impact on the planet, i still do not buy the fact that we are affecting the climate of earth as much as the alarmists are claiming. we have no idea what the long term effects of our meddling will be, if at all. before every ice age, the temperature spikes worldwide. buy boots and mittens for your great great grandkids now.
we need to reduce our dependence on harvesting domesticated animals. a single domesticated animal uses up more resources than a single human would. simple efficiency says we should no longer eat domesticated harvested animal. eat a tomato and kill the meat yourself. (this is another issue--the sanctity of life and the understanding of taking it to sustain your own. plant or animal you must kill to live. realization of this is the curse of the conscious predator)
i believe that research, when given the proper impetus (read: money), can produce viable technology that will allow us to adapt our human societies to the changing cycles of the natural earth. technology given proper guidance upon the principle of serving society for the betterment of the society will do no less than that.
Reger's Road to the White House 2016
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