Comments on: David Suzuki dives off the deep end http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:50:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Arthur http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-99018 Arthur Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:22:16 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-99018 Hyperbole, I understand. But is it hyperbole when the tree-huggers refuse to allow a healthy tree to be cut down, even when its roots are destroying the basement and foundations of of a house in the city? Is it hyperbole when the environmentalists are considering enacting a law that will ban outright the use of all wood-burning stoves and furnaces? I don't think so. Hyperbole, I understand.

But is it hyperbole when the tree-huggers refuse to allow a healthy tree to be cut down, even when its roots are destroying the basement and foundations of of a house in the city?

Is it hyperbole when the environmentalists are considering enacting a law that will ban outright the use of all wood-burning stoves and furnaces?

I don’t think so.

]]> By: Bene D http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-98822 Bene D Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:37:16 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-98822 I know it's hyperbole Robert... as someone most of us respect and admire and as an elder stateman of the environmental movement it's a difficult place for him to go. He's a master communicator, a very public scientist that has helped bring a generation up to speed, does he need hyperbole? I know it’s hyperbole Robert… as someone most of us respect and admire and as an elder stateman of the environmental movement
it’s a difficult place for him to go.

He’s a master communicator, a very public scientist that has helped bring a generation up to speed, does he need hyperbole?

]]> By: Saskboy http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-98802 Saskboy Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:32:39 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-98802 He's just countering the "fruit fly scientist" bull that comes from the wrong-side of the "debate", and grabbing headlines. Hopefully he hasn't gone senile. Anyway, remember he did spend time in a government prison based solely on his race, so he has a DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. Why should a kid who happened to be born to the supposedly "wrong" race be punished with imprisonment, but politicians who are destroying the world for dozens to millions of years, get a free pass? He’s just countering the “fruit fly scientist” bull that comes from the wrong-side of the “debate”, and grabbing headlines. Hopefully he hasn’t gone senile.

Anyway, remember he did spend time in a government prison based solely on his race, so he has a DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. Why should a kid who happened to be born to the supposedly “wrong” race be punished with imprisonment, but politicians who are destroying the world for dozens to millions of years, get a free pass?

]]> By: Robert McClelland http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-98794 Robert McClelland Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:15:55 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-98794 Look up the word "hyperbole". Then smack yourself in the head for being a silly literalist. Look up the word “hyperbole”. Then smack yourself in the head for being a silly literalist.

]]> By: Arthur http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-98789 Arthur Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:54:54 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/07/david-suzuki-dives-off-the-deep-end/#comment-98789 Personally, I hope Suzuki hit his head on the bottom. No, that is unkind. Sorry. While I understand the necessity of protecting our environment and being good stewards of the earth God gave us, I believe that the environmentalists have gone too far overboard. Personally, I hope Suzuki hit his head on the bottom.

No, that is unkind. Sorry.

While I understand the necessity of protecting our environment and being good stewards of the earth God gave us, I believe that the environmentalists have gone too far overboard.

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