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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
And as for environmental concerns, it appears to me that Americans have an irrational fascination with not using available environmental resources. We actsupremely deluded about the importance of environmental "preservation" and "protection" to degrees that are harmful to our economic requirements. We seem to have some emotional need to consider the state of the "environment" and other species' "needs" far more important than our own species' economic requirements. I suppose it has to do with self-hatred.
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You are taking some big leaps here; would you care to elaborate?
What do you mean by "our own species' economic requirements"? And do you think the environment isn't tied to the economy for better or for worse? I'm not sure what you are getting at exactly.
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