Thursday, July 2, 2009

This is Why We Have Problems

Arizona Geology blogger Lee Allison found a stunningly stupid comment from Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen, and accompanying video. From The Arizona Guardian,
On June 25th the senator voiced support for opening up uranium mining in Arizona and countered environmentalists by assuring them that the the Earth has been around for "6,000 years..." and has lasted that long without environmnental laws. She said it twice.
Yeah, the earth has been around for six thousand years, and it has lasted that long without mass extinctions or asteroid impacts either. How is it we keep electing buffoons to positions of power? As I pointed out in my first post today, we must have geological resources. But to allow idiots to make or shape decisions regarding how and where these resources can be extracted is not a good idea.
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