Originally Posted By: Rivrguy

You know that is one of the odd things in the enviro world. No continent has had the natural order stripped away as in Europe. Always yipping around the world about enviro issues trying sell we must save the world. Hell that is like making the get away driver jury foreman of the bank robbers trial.

That's certainly one way to look at it. The other would be to recognize the fact that Europe learned the lessons we are only now beginning to learn long ago. Theirs is a cautionary tale. If we don't want US fish and wildlife to go the way European wildlife went, we would do well to listen. Sadly, as was the fundamenral problem for them as well, there's no profit in conserving natural resources, so we choose not to, just as they did. To think we can go on the way we have and not end up in the same situation is an insane denial of reality.