83 year old sums up environmentalism in one sentence:

[JFN1]

My 83 year old father surprised me today. I asked him if, as a scientist (geophysicist), did he have any thoughts on environmentalism and global warming.

He kind of chuckled, then said, "As a scientist? Well let me put this as scientifically as I can: YOU DON'T SHIT WHERE YOU EAT."

Well put, Dad!!

[polichick]

1. LOL - yep, that about says it! nt

[ceile]

2. Perfect! n/t

[yellerpup]

3. Exactly.

We are the only animal who can't graze behind ourselves. We got the big brain instead--so, duh! Use it or lose it all.

[NMMNG]

4. Animals know that

Sadly many humans can't seem to figure it out. :-(

[VP505]

5. Thank your Scientist Father

for that astute answer, one that even the President could fully understand.

[tavalon]

16. I really think you overestimate Dumbya's intelligence

Besides, he would just argue that we aren't animals. That is the strangest argument (that we aren't animals. Of course we are) but I hear it all the time.

[CherokeeDem]

6. Here, here JFN1's Dad

Tell him no one has said it better!!!!!!!

[BeFree]

7. Look! Up in the sky!

Its shit that came out of the smokestacks and tailpipes. Good thing nobody eats in the sky!

Wait..... we don't eat there, but we do breate there, eh? Hmmm, we gots a problem.

[tavalon]

18. I think that's why people aren't able to wrap their minds around

the idea that you don't poop where you eat. We humans poop on everything so it looks like we don't poop on anything.

[whistle]

8. You don't spew poison gas where you breathe, you don't dump toxic waste

...where you drink and bathe, you never sit bear ass-ed on a red hot stove and if you make your own bed you should lie in it! Let the polluters reap their own filth

[gateley]

9. Tell your dad we love him! nt

[undeterred]

10. Repuke said to me he didn't care about the environment

because it would still be here during his lifetime, but he thought that Republicans had better "family values" than Democrats. Not even questioning the latter premise I said, so you care about children, but you don't care if they can BREATHE?

[Shallah Kali]

11. The pollution which fouls up weather also slowly poisons us and our kids and grandkids

mercury from the coal burning power plants and also in the coal burned to power the ethanol plants.


BodyBurden: The Pllution in Newborns
A benchmark investigation of industrial chemicals, pollutants, and pesticides in human umbilical cord blood

http://archive.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/

[tavalon]

19. And, no doubt, he just rolled his eyes

Democrats are for people, Republicans are for themselves, until they get to Washington, then they are all for themselves. I never thought about it that way before, but there are plenty of good Dems out there, they just go sour when they get left out on the counter in DC!

[undeterred]

20. I think that the issue of the future for children

has finally caught up with the so-called "family values" crowd. Its not enough to say you are in favor of traditional marriage or against porn... All children are going to inherit a polluted world, huge debt, nuclear waste... enormous problems that previous generations have never even dreamt of. If you really care about the children of today you've got to care about a lot more than the trivialities that the "family values" abstinence only crowd points to. These people are so naive.

[Maat]

12. Give your dad a hug for us (n/t)! Right on!

[applegrove]

13. Very cute. And very right.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended for the wisdom of your dad.

Thanks for the thread, JFN.:thumbsup:

[tavalon]

15. Clearly, your father was and continues to this day to be,

a very intelligent man.

Why is it that most, if not all, of the other animals have figured that out, but we, the supposed thinkers, are too stupid to understand that basic tenet?

[XOKCowboy]

17. My dad was an agronomist/botanist/rancher...

He gave up the seed business after reading Silent Spring. He was disgusted with the chemicals that were being introduced into farming. His view of "environmentalism"?

"Mama Nature is the biggest bitch there is. Don't mess with her because she always wins"

[tavalon]

21. That's been my point for so very long

I just phrase it a little differently. Gaia will survive, she is older than us and she will be around long after she removes us. The issue isn't saving the planet, the issue is saving the stupid hairless monkeys.

[JFN1]

23. That's right

There have been plenty of other biospheres that supported life in the history of this planet, and the current one, the one we need to survive, certainly won't be the last. Idiots who think this is about saving the planet don't get it's the biosphere - and the bio-diversity it contains - which makes it livable for us monkeys, hairless and otherwise...

[Canuckistanian]

22. It's an old saying

A bird never shits in it's own nest.

Something that the human species has never come to terms with, given that our "nest" is the whole planet by now.

[doc03]

26. Did you ever watch a chicken eat? n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. Succinct and to the point! I like your dad!

Wat to go, Dad!:thumbsup:

[Kucinich4America]

25. While I agree with your dad, I used to have a cat who would have argued the point.

Crapped right in his food bowl one day. I told him "Joke's on you, asshole. You're the one who has to eat out of it."

[doc03]

27. He's right. But dogs lick their ass and eat poop

and their owners let them lick their face!