I ride dirt bikes. I have ridden dirt bikes about the time Edison Dye brought MX to us. I went to college. I learned, I got educated. I read, I study; again I learned.

You know what I learned? That in the two billion years the planet has been around and has survived everything from birth of the universe: meteors, comets and the formation of water from oxygen and hydrogen(imagine the power it would have required to do that at the scale that it happened), to the drying of the land mass, and the evaporation of the seas to provide the atmosphere ( again, imagine the power to do that!)

The beginning of the formation of amino acids and proteins, which came together, got sparked and wow, now we have life. I would have to believe that it didn't just start with one cell, as the probabilities of survival would be zilch.

The cellular generation of complex bio-systems to insects and crustaceans, then fish, air breathers, dinosaurs and finally mammals and humans, which have only occupied the planet for about 4 million years, give or take an epoch.

I learned of the incredible arrogance of the people who believe that we actually are powerful enough to permanently damage or change the earth?! After what … 2 billion years of change?

To think that we as a collective or as individuals could effect enough on our environment, something that in the 4 millions years of us being around we have, Oh about what, maybe 150-200 years of history study and documentation.

Global warming? I don't think so. Ozone loss? Maybe... probably not. Destroying the fragile eco system? Geeeez, give me a break. This is the earth, right?

We are dealing with educated alarmist who for their own interest are waging a war against the people who express freedom and the American way, and they're probably stronger than any one group.

What we need is to educate ourselves and then the rest of the world on what the SIMPLE truth is. We, as a race, will not change the world. We, as a race, do not have that kind of power over the earth.

We may in our stupidity eliminate ourselves. There may be a life threatening event such as a big ass comet falling on our heads, or at least change the tilt axis again to where it was before (single biggest contribution to the change in land mass). Bet that would stir the pot.

Did you know that a whole bunch of really smart geologists spent a lot of money, had a lot of trick scientific things, went out to find out exactly how much oil the united states had in reserve and at the current projected consumption rate how long before we ran on empty?

Well, guess what? They DONT KNOW. You know why they don't know? Because they can't find the damned bottom of the deeper oil cavities. Don't know, machine can't see it, too far down, They do know that a very large oil reserve starts at about Manitoba to the south, goes over the pole to well inside Russia, all the way to Alaska on the left and Greenland on the right. Big huge and at least 5-20
miles down.

Remember, the earth is about 8000 mile in diameter and we figure the core is about 4000 miles in diameter with mantle leaking up to about 6000 miles. So what's the rest of it made of? Well, there is some speculation based on fact that a great part of it is hydrocarbon in some from or other.

One thing to remember: the earth is still cooling. Yes, that's right; after billions of years, it's still not done folks. And like the solar furnace that gives us life, it's got a long way to cool. When it does it will probably no longer support life, but that's not in our near future.

All right, so where does all this leave us? Well, education. Remember the
wilderness fight mess? Turns out all of this land closure is the reason we
have so many big fires that we can't control. Gee, now there's a surprise, How
do you make a forest thicker; you prune it right? Just like auntie Emma's
rose's.

We need to do a better job of educating, and understanding the facts a lot better then our tree hugging, land closing, dirt bike, off road, horse back, bashing buddies do. Certainly they are very educated. Enough to truly distort the facts to those who are not.

Tread lightly, be aware, become knowledgeable in the issues, fight back. Peace love happiness, and roost.

Joe (Joeracer) Wytman
Live and well in San Jose.

Slap gonna put dat one in da McScrappbook no doubt. Dat was some interestin readin WFO WR500. A beautimus piece...And Slap really like da way you push da edumicating part.

[This message has been edited by Slappy (edited 05-05-2002).]

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