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Originally Posted by ish
Never been to Hatteras huh?
The difference is that Hatteras Island's entire economy is tourism........ based upon what???? go ahead guess ! the beach and all the activities that go along with it.
The spots they want to close are ALL of the hotspots that people come to go fishing, shelling etc.
If I were a resident or business owner on H.I. I'd be pissed that national groups (who have probably rarely set foot on the beach there) were using high priced lawyers to close the beach for the supposed benifit of birds......and put in danger the entire way of life for all the people who live on that island.
I really appreciate all you guys that took a few minutes to send the pleaCast to help these people out!!
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Ish; As much as I can understand your plea, and realize why you're appealing the cause, I just can't agree with it. As an environmentalist, as a Marine Biologist, as an Evolutionist, or from political standpoints. The future of our world is at stake. Every generation, every decade, and down to every year. I want to know that I did my part to make sure my grandchildren, and their grandchildren have the right, as well as the ability to enjoy the beauties which mother nature has to offer.
I'd rather see that the birds have the ability to mate and nest and live on as they have done for thousands of years; than worry about the financial issues of people that have been in the area for only a couple of hundred of years. Especially in the case of a confederate state, which should not have been given any of their political rights back after their sedition in the first place.
If business falls by the wayside, and people lose their financial and life styles; they can adapt and retrain, reeducate, and relearn new careers, new life styles, and new futures. That is what is great about the human race. Adaptation and Evolution. If they cannot adapt, then by the basis of survival of the fittest, let them become extinct; figuratively, or literally.
Mother Nature cannot be beaten, cannot be overcome, and cannot be compromised with. Our environmental catastrophies, as well as the ever increasing severity and occurences of them; prove that Mother Nature will take her planet back. So why piss her off more, and have her want to do it faster? We, as humans think that because of our technology, that we are the top of the ecological pyramid. But we are always too ignorant, as well as arrogant to remember that without that technology, we are nothing more than the sand that the first building block is laid upon.
