Global Warming so you think its fake?, page 3

I think I may have the (deserved if true) reputation as one of the more vehement Global warming deniers on this board. I am sure I'm in the top ten.

Now according to the OP, that insinuates that I care nothing about the environment. Allow me a few moments to explain how I live to you:

I live outside of any city or metropolitan area. My home is on the side of a small mountain. The nearest town is close, about 5 miles away, but it is so small it has only one general store and a couple small businesses. The nearest thing that could be called a 'city' is about ten miles in the other direction, and is pretty small itself. The largest employer is WalMart.

To get to anything like a metropolitan area you get to drive about 50-60 miles.

I presently control 90 acres of land here. It belonged to my father before me, and to his father before him. Only 10 acres is cleared and fairly level; the remainder is heavily wooded with virgin forest. These trees have stood for at least 100 years, perhaps longer, undisturbed by anyone except us. I have denied multiple requests to log commercially here, and have consistently refused any suggestion of developing the land beyond building our own homes here, cutting firewood for our own use, and fencing in a few areas.

We (my mother, myself, and my family) still grow a garden whenever we can. My present plans are to increase the garden size to a little over an acre, the extent of the plot we have available for it. That will produce enough vegetables for my entire family (and then some for the neighbors), enough tobacco plants for myself to have plenty of smokes each year, and the rest will be planted in corn. We don't eat a lot of corn, but chickens do.

I have a section of the mountain fenced in where we used to have goats. Goats are wonderful for keeping the brush at bay and snakes away. In the center of this pen, surrounded by a new herd of goats, I plan on building a chickenhouse to give us free meat and eggs. The manure from this chickenhouse will be mixed with the manure and compost from the rabbits we have to produce fertilizer for that garden. The goats will keep the snakes away, and a secondary tightly-woven fence should handle the coyotes, raccoons, possums, foxes, and weasels. The tree canopy should manage to keep the hawks and that new family of eagles at bay.

I have plans to build a geothermal heating/cooling system for our house, providing climate control for the cost of a simple series of fans during the summer, and that plus some hot water during the winter.

We have blackberry vines, grape vines, muscadine vines, mulberry trees, apple trees, pear trees, cherry trees, and a cornucopia of walnut, pecan, and water chestnut trees already here. I want to add strawberries and blueberries, perhaps some raspberries as well. It would also be nice if i could get this mulberry tree to start bearing.

Our water comes from a private well. Our sewer is a private septic tank. that septic tank is set up so as to be continually regenerating. Chances are it will never need to be cleaned out.

I am presently working on ways to produce my own electricity.

I am also looking into gasoline alternatives.

I burn almost all of my waste that is burnable, including brush from where the mountain tries to overtake my home each year. I have a small bonfire pit that I use for this. The ashes are mixed with the compost and manure to be used as more fertilizer.

I have plenty of wildlife here for meat as well. Squirrel and deer are abundant. Yes, I would shoot a deer for the meat. No, I wouldn't wipe them out. Thanks to my management over the last 20 years, we went from having only the occasional deer to several herds. That management included private hunting.

I do like a few of technology's benefits. I love to drink Mountain Dew. I buy it in cans and recycle them to help pay for more. The cans are cheaper than plastic bottles and I can recoup some of my cost. I can also use them for some projects around the house. Anyone familiar with making a cook stove from two cans? I still have a few of the two liter bottles from time to time. They get recycled for water bottles, funnels, containers for nuts or bolts, and a myriad of other uses.

I have used furniture that others were ready to throw out to make room for new. This is a very comfortable couch, and the coffee table in front of me was actually built by my father 40 years ago. When my appliances break down, my first thought is to fix them, not to buy new. The newest vehicle I own is a 1999 Saturn. I also have two pickups, both made in the 1980s. I again prefer to repair rather than replace whenever possible.

After working at a regular job, I have a to-do list of repairs and improvements that is literally astronomical. All I do is work to keep my lifestyle the way I want it. I have precious little time for play.

I should also mention that I am a devout Christian.

Now, explain to me how I am not 'green' enough. Explain to me how I am not doing my part to preserve our planet. Then tell me what you are doing to help keep our planet clean and natural. I don't want to hear about organizing others or about how loudly or how often you protest. That's just talk. Tell me what you do.

Then I'll explain to you how those very same people who have been screaming about Global Warming and carbon dioxide are the self-same reason why several of the things above included the phrase 'I plan to'. Their answer is to take from me via taxes, carbon credits, and regulations to prevent me from carrying out my plans, and they are apparently very good at it.

So tell me now, who is 'green' and who isn't?

TheRedneck