On a recent trip to Mexico I noticed that the sea life has been absolutely decimated since the last time I had been there. Nobody knows what they’ve lost.
Nobody Knows What They’ve Lost
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put ’em in a tree museum *
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ’em
Joni Mitchell
I don’t remember which environmentalist it was, and I don’t remember which national park it was, but the environmentalists were trying to save two sites, and they were given an option: Let us take this one, and we’ll let you have the other. And the one site was flooded to create a reservoir. And the environmentalists went back and looked at what had been destroyed and realized that they’d made a mistake. “We can never compromise again. Because when we lose, we lose the place forever.”
It’s funny how the left makes the same mistakes over and over. Let’s compromise on the environment. Let’s compromise on CO2 levels. Let’s compromise on the budget. Let’s compromise. Half of half of half of half of half …
You might be thinking of the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite, Alex