If the asteroid hadn't smashed into us... [View All]

[Speck Tater]

... and if the dinosaurs had never become extinct, would today's environmentalists be trying to save endagered dinosaurs species?

I understand the need to minimize the damage done to the environment by civilization, but do we sometimes try to manage things that are inherently unmanagable? Species have been going extinct since the dawn of life on this planet. We can't possibly save them all.

So how does a liberal choose when there is a choice between saving an endagered cricket by sacrificing 100 construction jobs vs saving 100 endangered jobs by scarificing a cricket? What is the balance point? Can this party be attractive to construction workers if it represents a willingness to put them out of work for the sake of a cricket?