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RUSH: Here\u2019s Sue in Annapolis, Maryland<\/a>. I\u2019m glad you called, Sue, welcome to the program.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. I listen to you a lot, loved hearing all your optimism during the election, and I want —<\/line>RUSH: Thank you.<\/line>CALLER: — you to know that there is a conservative Republican environmental science teacher in the country, and that\u2019s me, and —<\/line>RUSH: Well, we\u2019re happy to have you with us.<\/line>CALLER: — I\u2019m applauding what you\u2019re saying, because I think it\u2019s going to take about 10,000 years before we know for sure, if humans had anything to do with climate change, or if it\u2019s just going to happen because that\u2019s what happens on earth, period. I try to tell my kids that.<\/line>RUSH: Sue, I just saw the other day — it was in the Seattle Times — it was last week, that the amount of pollutants, I think it was CO2, actually, or sulfur dioxide, something, that Mount St. Helens has polluted the earth\u2019s atmosphere more than all of the factories in the state of Washington in a whole year combined.<\/line>CALLER: Yep. I heard you talking about that the other day, and I was unable to get the reference so I could print the article for my kids.<\/line>RUSH: You know, doesn\u2019t that debunk the whole notion of human-caused climate change?<\/line>CALLER: Well, it does, and it tells us that we are only part of the issue on the planet. It\u2019s a huge planet. There\u2019s lots of water, there\u2019s lots of things happening, and you can\u2019t just pull out one single factor just to suit your purposes, which is what I think they try to do many times.<\/line>RUSH: You know what else? You know what has taken root out there is there has been clear cutting of the Amazon rain forest, which is a jungle. You know, this whole term, “rain forest” is to romanticize it. It\u2019s a jungle and nobody would want to be caught dead there except to be eaten alive by snakes and bugs and whoever knows what else, alligators. But nevertheless, there\u2019s this thing that\u2019s caught hold out there that we have clear cut the Amazon rain forest to the point that it\u2019s in a terrible state of disarray. Well, the truth is two things, and I mentioned this to the person who told me this, and this person just pooh-poohed it. You know what, I remember the story where we came out and talked about the acreage of the Amazon rain forest that had been so-called supposedly clear-cut, that same year the Europeans were alarmed and stunned at all of the new foliage they had that they hadn\u2019t seen in a while, and the conclusion the scientists made was the earth\u2019s climate system and the whole ecological system is something that if we think we have control over. We are vain like nobody\u2019s belief, that —<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: — if there is a reduction in foliage, the earth takes care of it somewhere else, that the amount of water on the planet is constant, either in the oceans, in your bathtub; it\u2019s in clouds or whatever, but there\u2019s no new water that arrives here from a delivery truck from outer space, we have the water that we have here, you know, and we clean it and do what we can. It\u2019s a contained ecosystem. It is brilliantly put together. The idea that human beings living their lives can destroy it, is just vanity to the max, and then I find it contradictory. On the one hand we\u2019re on powerful and we\u2019re so vain and we\u2019re so huge that our cars can destroy our atmosphere and our ozone, which another thing that\u2019s not happening, the ozone layer is created by the sun. By the same token we\u2019re no different and better than a rat, and animals and trees need primacy because we\u2019re the ones destroying. The things these people come up with amaze me intellectually.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. Well, it\u2019s complicated, and I don\u2019t think we should run around destroying it just because we can, but I just wanted you to know, there are a few of us trying to bring some reason to this destruction —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate —<\/line>CALLER: — you know, this discussion especially with kids.<\/line>RUSH: You\u2019re doing the Lord\u2019s work because you\u2019re out there against such things at Captain Planet and all these cartoon series, and that stupid movie, “The Day After Tomorrow.” I mean, how many…?<\/line>CALLER: My kids beg me to see that, yeah, they keep begging me to show it to them, and I\u2019m like, “No, we\u2019re not going to waste our time.” <\/line>RUSH: You need to. You need to go to Blockbuster. Be there first on a Friday rent it and show it to these kids and use it as a classic example of the paranoid extremism that the people who want people to believe this stuff actually think. It\u2019s valuable. It is valuable as it is. <\/line>CALLER: Well, I say to them things like, “You know, Vice President Cheney doesn\u2019t care about our air because he breathes different air and he drinks different water, right? Isn\u2019t that the way all Republicans think?” and they always laugh because they start realizing that we\u2019re all in this together —<\/line>RUSH: Exactly.<\/line>CALLER: — and it can\u2019t all be that bad, and so it\u2019s going to work out, but thank you. I enjoy listening to you. Great to talk to you.<\/line>RUSH: Sue, before you go, quickly, I need to ask: Can you give me an example when you said, “We shouldn\u2019t destroy it,” meaning the environment? I agree totally. Can you give me an example of how we do that?<\/line>CALLER: Like for example with the mining when they go blast the whole, you know, top of a mountain off and then all of the debris is in all of the streams and you have all the sediment. I mean, I live on the Chesapeake Bay. All you have to do is look at an aerial view and you see all the runoff and the pollution so we can have perfectly green lawns, and we don\u2019t have any crabs now. We\u2019re killing them in the bay. But we do do some things. We do do some things because we\u2019re not as careful as we could be —<\/line>RUSH: Now, but —<\/line>CALLER: — but I think that the earth is bigger than that.<\/line>RUSH: Here my question for that. See, from our perspective, there aren\u2019t any more crabs, and you see a lot of debris, but are we actually destroying anything? In a pure sense, did we destroy anything by blowing up a mountain in mining? Did we destroy anything?<\/line>CALLER: Well, you\u2019ve destroyed the things downstream because as you keep putting all of this junk into it streams that finally get their way into the bay then we destroyed the aquatic vegetation which all of the little crabs and little creatures need to live and to breathe in so we can have more crabs in the future —<\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line>CALLER: – -and it\u2019s pretty clear. But 30 years\u2019 worth of talking about it hasn\u2019t done one thing to clean up the bay, not one.<\/line>RUSH: In thirty years of talking, who hasn\u2019t?<\/line>CALLER: Everybody. Everybody. Chesapeake Bay Foundation and all these environmental groups that run around carrying on and screaming and hollering about it but it\u2019s still just as bad as it\u2019s ever been, so —<\/line>RUSH: Well, my point is… I know it\u2019s going to be thought extreme but my point is that you\u2019re looking at this from our perspective. We like crabs. There aren\u2019t any crabs. We\u2019re destroying something. We like crabs. We like algae. We like little living rooms for growing organisms in the Chesapeake Bay but for whatever reason it\u2019s not there because we blew up a mountain to get to the coal or whatever was in there. My contention: We haven\u2019t destroyed anything. There are still crabs. We haven\u2019t wiped out the crab population. All we\u2019ve done is rearrange things. There\u2019s all kinds of oddball life that is swimming around in that goo and that gunk. A nuclear weapon would not snuff out life. It may take a form we don\u2019t know, but in terms of actually destroying things? Now, I know from our perspective, yeah, we can destroy things that we need for ourselves. I\u2019m not denying that, but the idea we\u2019re going to destroy earth and so forth I think is just so far over the top. If we had that power, we could create it — and we can\u2019t. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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