"Grand Staircase, Home to Countless Dinosaur Fossils, Could Be Destroyed by Mining (Op-Ed by David Polly, Live Science).
We can’t fault David Polly from clearly labeling his article as an opinion piece, but it’s noteworthy
that this ‘science’ site website would never post a contrary opinion favoring conservatism. Debate on a politically sensitive topic would seem to be a nice, scientific thing to do, but political correctness demands trashing Trump, exalting Clinton, demeaning business, and thinking in either-or categories of identity politics.
One could imagine ways that both interests in the policy dispute could be accommodated: some mining, and protection of the richest fossil deposits.
Perhaps miners could be instructed to protect new fossil deposits as they are discovered. This is standard practice in many locations now, including west Los Angeles with its La Brea Tar Pits and the Lompoc diatomaceous earth beds. How many fossils of the same species does a scientist need, anyway? No; to be politically correct, David Polly, quoting only liberal sources, must exalt the value of fossils and denigrate the mining business and conservative politicians.
Where is his memory? Did he forget that Bill Clinton unilaterally declared Grand
Staircase a ‘national monument’ with no local input, as a favor to his rich Indonesian friend to protect his coal mines from competition? The coal beds Clinton put off limits are some of the highest-grade clean coal deposits in the world, equaled only by Indonesia’s. The Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument is a vast area. Much of Utah is already owned by the federal government. Surely it would be politically astute to achieve a compromise benefiting all parties. But it would not be politically correct. Let’s see if Live Science presents a conservative Op-Ed in response (don’t hold your breath)." CEH
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Genesis 7:22
We can’t fault David Polly from clearly labeling his article as an opinion piece, but it’s noteworthy
One could imagine ways that both interests in the policy dispute could be accommodated: some mining, and protection of the richest fossil deposits.
Perhaps miners could be instructed to protect new fossil deposits as they are discovered. This is standard practice in many locations now, including west Los Angeles with its La Brea Tar Pits and the Lompoc diatomaceous earth beds. How many fossils of the same species does a scientist need, anyway? No; to be politically correct, David Polly, quoting only liberal sources, must exalt the value of fossils and denigrate the mining business and conservative politicians.
Where is his memory? Did he forget that Bill Clinton unilaterally declared Grand
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Genesis 7:22
