jinasphinx | environmental news - couple of quotes (Reply)

The New Yorker's interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, whoever she is, has the best summary I've seen of global warming. And a great quote about the controversy:

To focus on the degree of disagreement, rather than on the degree of consensus, is, I think, fundamentally misguided. If ten people told you your house was on fire, you would call the fire department. You wouldn’t really care whether some of them thought that the place would be incinerated in an hour and some of them thought it would take a whole day.

A plan to quietly sell a large amount of public lands was defeated by environmentalists and hunters working together: "'There's absolutely no question about what's brought us closer together,' agrees Oregon hunter and prominent outdoor columnist Pat Wray. 'It's the Bush administration.'"

(I think the Secure Rural Schools proposal to sell National Forest land is still on the table though, because it's part of the proposed 2007 federal budget. Found a link about the extended comment period.)