The poor manatees are swimming to Rhode Island

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Sounds like a Libby line, but it is from the PBS special last night about the Everglades, I can't imagine anyone coming away from it and not being pro-environmental movement.

We screwed up the environment there. There are pollutants in the waters. It showed the effect -- baby alligators with genetic sexual problems and poor manatees.

They track the manatees and they swim all the way up the coast to Rhode Island. Like 1500 miles one way. The scientists believe that they are doing this because they are trying to learn how to adapt to a colder climate so they won't become extinct.

[xultar]

1. Sort of a a metaphor of what it is like to live in a red state for a human

I feel like I'm being polluted in GA. I wanna move north to Seattle to get out of the toxic bullshit.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Ha. A friend of mine (republican) just left Seattle because he

could stand the left wingnuts. Ultra liberal. I can identify. I liver 20 miles from the Western White House. Life is too short, huh?

[jody]

2. "baby alligators with genetic sexual problems"! What about humans? n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. I know that is what I thought too. For the DDT, etc to infiltrate deep

into the swamps enough to mutate an alligator's genetic material what is it doing to us?

[jody]

7. My family and I canoed the entire Suwanee River, 230 miles, 25 years

ago and saw manatees and alligators. We also saw pollution destroying a rare treasure. We've backpacked in most national parks and saw first hand the cruel hand of modern mankind.

We weep at the destruction of nature's creation and believe humans are a cancer slowly destroying Eden.

[IndyOp]

6. Species whose eggs develop in the polluted water often

show genetic effects first -- they are our 'canaries in the coal mine' --

[Fenris]

5. You have to imagine that anyone against sane environmental policy

Is either extremely shortsighted, extremely stupid, or both.

Anytime I hear conservatives trot out the old tree-hugger strawman, my eyes roll back into my head. I would love to be foolish enough to think that interest in maintaining our environment was propogated by idealistic earth people hugging trees. Is there something in the conservative mind that fails to connect environmental destruction with the inherent consequences of said destruction? The world is heating up thanks to ozone depletion - well, that means we can wear shorts in winter! Ocean levels are rising - great! I always wanted to live near the beach in Kansas! Fossil fuels running out - what's that? Let me turn my Hummer off.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. do you remember, a million years ago, the PSA with the native

american looking at all the garbage people threw about, and it ended with him and a big tear running down his cheek?

We need more of those. Did someone cut the PSA budget???

[chaska]

9. The rich manatees swim in Connecticutt, but summer in the Hamptons.