According to the latest issue of the Sierra Club magazine, an effort to protect the manatees by reducing power boat speeds in Kings Bay in Citrus County, Florida, drew opposition from the local Tea Party. Edna Mattos, a Tea Party leader, told the St. Petersburg Times, “We cannot elevate nature above people. That’s against the Bible and the Bill of Rights.”
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While I am on the subject of animals, surely the authorities in Ohio could have asked people to shelter in place until animal tranquilizers were brought in. Was it really necessary to shoot Bengal tigers? The larger question is why were those tigers allowed there to begin with?
"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." King James Version, Genesis 1:28
ReplyDeleteI other words, if man messes it up, you lose the earth.