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Ten hard facts for pop ecologists:
- Giving an empty corn flakes box to a child to cut up
and colour with a crayon as a "craft" before throwing
it into the garbage can does not make less garbage.
- Fur seals are not an endangered species.
- Granite is less biodegradable than plastic. Thus, by the
logic of pop ecologists, the world would be more ecologically
sound if it contained less granite.
- Taking water out of a river, drinking it, processing the sewage,
and then returning the water to the same river does not create
a water shortage by "using up" the water. It only creates
a need for more water processing plants.
- A thousand horse-drawn carriages create more pollution than
a thousand automobiles, and a thousand wood stoves create more
pollution than a thousand oil furnaces.
- Animals who die naturally in the forest suffer far more fear
and pain than animals who are killed quickly in a slaughterhouse.
- Species which are raised for slaughter by man never become
endangered.
- If all the garbage that mankind could produce were dumped
in one place, it could only fill up a tiny corner of the world
because the garbage comes from processing a limited amount of
wood, oil, and food.
- Clearing jungle to grow cotton for "ecologically-friendly
clothing" endangers more species than hunting animals in
that same jungle to make fur coats.
- The word "Ecological" includes the word "logical."
People who are "Ecoillogical" do not help improve the
world.