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Nihil

(13,508 posts)
2. "But the Obama administration stands by it"
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 04:43 AM
Nov 2013

> As farmers rushed to find new places to plant corn, they wiped out millions of acres
> of conservation land, destroyed habitat and polluted water supplies
>
> Five million acres of land set aside for conservation — more than Yellowstone, Everglades
> and Yosemite National Parks combined — have vanished on Obama's watch.
> Landowners filled in wetlands. They plowed into pristine prairies, releasing carbon dioxide
> that had been locked in the soil. Sprayers pumped out billions of pounds of fertilizer,
> some of which seeped into drinking water, contaminated rivers and worsened the huge
> dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico where marine life can't survive.

He definitely brought "Change" but - apart from for the profit-chasers - he screwed "Hope".

And thanks to the usual BOG cheerleaders along with the resident ethanol booster, pointing out the
true cost of this policy is severely frowned upon.




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