The invader is the Chinese mitten crab. Which the Pilot explains is a delicacy in China but an interloper in Virginia waters and MUST BE ERADICATED. Would that the half-cracked staff at the Pilot were half as concerned about people who would kill us as crustaceans that are good to eat.
But why this headline grabbing attention? A slow news day? Perhaps, but it also reflects a posture that pervades the all the “good environmentalists” that work at newspapers like the Pilot: they want to stop the world. For them the Chesapeake Bay the way it is now (or perhaps as it was 100 years ago) is the way it ought to be, world without end, Amen.
Ditto for all aspects of the environment, especially the temperature of the earth. They want to earth to remain in stasis, like fly trapped in amber. Anything that changes this is BAD and must be resisted, uprooted, destroyed. If anything is about turning back the clock, it’s Environmentalism with a capital “E.”
Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator, had a great comment during an interview on PBS, a quote that has been reproduced on the Internet (see here):
“I would ask which human beings - where and when - are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take.”
And that applies not just to the climate but all aspects of the environment. We live in a world that is constantly changing. This should be obvious especially to the mossbacks that inhabit the Pilot because they are a shrinking breed as newspapers lose customers to new and better means of communication.
But arrogance goes with the territory if you write for a newspaper. You get it with your company ID badge.
“Say Goodnight Gracie.”
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