<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I am an environmentalist, and you should not automatically believe that I am for every single thing the radical environmentalists do. </div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">I am for GMO, for example. YES to golden rice!</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Good, but then you are not an average middle of the road environmentalist, you are a radical environmentalist and I guess I am too.</font><font size="4" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Calling every environmentalist an ecofreak is not good thinking. It's stereotyping</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">Yes<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> but you almost make it sound like<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>stereotyping<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>is a bad thing. Who caused millions of people to die unnecessarily from malaria? <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Average </div>middle of the road environmentalists<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> ,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> aka ecofreaks. Who caused millions of children to go blind? Average </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">m</div>iddle of the road environmentalists<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. Who killed nuclear energy even though it has a better safety record than any other energy source and produced no greenhouse gasses? Average </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">m</div>iddle of the road environmentalists<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">.</div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Let's keep it rational</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">If you want a rational conversation then </font></div><font size="4">environmentalists<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> are not the ones to talk to. </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Calling every environmentalist a ecofreak <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">would not be</div> strictly true, but it<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> wouldn't be a</div>bad first approximation of the truth. The environmental movement that started off so well has been hijacked by nuts who think with their gut and not their brain.</span></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></div><div> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><br></div></div>
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