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Can we take the word "conservative" back yet?

Submitted on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 20:29

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Civil Engineering

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• conservation
• politics

This is a little political aside.

For years, I've thought that people who call themselves "conservatives" do not really conserve resources or the overall environment, so why should they have this nice sounding title as their own?  The other side of that is that there is a certain stigma associated with liberals.

Anyway, it is just my belief that we're all in this together (a socialist idea) but I think that the typical conservative would embrace a philosophy that is founded on conserving -- environmentalists are conservatives in a literal sense.

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What does "Save the Planet" mean?

Submitted on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 23:42

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Civil Engineering

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• ecosystem
• John Shimkus
• mass extinction
• politics
• save the planet

I've been reading a lot of what others have been saying about the environment. I like to seek out both sides of an argument, sometimes I have to scroll down beyond 50 Google results before I find anything from the other side of the case, but this one particular bit of news really made me upset.

I recently watched the video of this Bible-quoting Republican from the U.S. House of Representatives. In the video, he concludes that God is in charge of any climate change and only God will decide when the end of the world will be. The guy's name is John Shimkus,

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