Reply #6: That would be the infamous James Watt, secretary of the interior.

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To my knowledge, he never mentioned any specific goals about "last tree," or "last acre," but it is definitely on public record that he believed environmentalism to be (at best) irrelevant, because he firmly believed that the Second Coming would be within his lifetime.

According to that recent movie "The God that wasn't there," 44% of Americans believe that the Second coming will either "absolutely" or "quite possibly" occur in our lifetimes. So that's close to 1/2 of America which is a total write-off when it comes to any environmental issue. At best 56% of Americans are even capable of considering the environment to be an important consideration for their children or grandchildren, etc.

56%. That's the upper limit. And when you look around at what's happening, it shows, don't it?


Oh, and it also explains a lot of other things, like our mysteriously cavalier attitude toward $8-trillion dollars of debt. 44% of Americans are evidently confident that nobody will be around to pay it anyway.