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How Can Conservatives Be Against Conservation? [1]

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Date: 2023-05-06

The word conservative has become meaningless. The root of the word is a verb, to conserve. Conserve means to preserve or to use wisely in a sustainable manner. The act preserves resources and culture for use by future generations. A conservative is simply one who conserves.

The Menominee tribe is Conservative. When they took over management of their own forests, they took inventory of the trees. I don’t remember the exact numbers, so I’ll just make up some estimates. The original inventory showed they had 7 billion board feet of lumber standing in their forests. By selectively harvesting trees late in their life cycle when they are large and not damaging others nearby in the process, they sold off some of the lumber. This improved the health of the forests. Another inventory 10 years later showed that after selling off hundreds of millions of board feet of lumber, the harvests had reduced the standing trees to only 11 billion board feet of lumber. No wait, 11 billion is more than 7 billion! What the heck is going on here? This is real conservation.

Republicans are NOT conservative. They are willing to destroy the planet for future generations. This is the opposite of conservative. They don’t want to conserve anything but their wealth and power.

Republicans are self centered radical extremists acting like juveniles. They just want what they want and they want it now!

I had not intended to write about the Menominee tribe when I started, but hey, when a great example pops into your head, you use it.

We need to stop using inappropriate terms. Words matter. Ideas matter. We need to call out both Republicans and the Media.

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