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Thursday, June 12, 2008
A visit to ANWR
Here is an interesting piece that Jonah Golberg wrote in 2001 about his visit to Alaska. The Warble Fly he writes about that plagues the caribou also plagues animals here on the farm.
Ivormectin and its knock-offs control the migration of the grub. Repeated use seems to reduce the fly population. But there were a couple of years when I didn't apply the ivormectin. Then the grubs appear in raised areas on the heifer's back.
why don't the flies bother older cows? Is it some sor tof immunity? thicker hides?
Yikes, that mention of the stupid "tree falling in a forest" thought experiment at the end of the article is a strange dose of Kantian philosophy from Goldberg.
"Opponents of drilling are absolutely right: Oil exploration isn't pretty. The Alpine site looks like a few gravel parking lots connected by a gravel road. There's industrial piping piled up and corrugated trailers and loading paddocks everywhere. The whole place looks like the floor of one of those giant construction pits before they put up a skyscraper in downtown New York."
Hmm, both of those things sound beautiful to me!
The bottom line, however, is that questions of beauty have no place in politics. The whole issue becomes very simple if discussion is guided by the only proper principle for politics: individual rights.
Next time you think that environmentalists have man's interests in mind, and that it's only the radical ones who don't, remember that leaders as mainstream as Jimmy Carter and Joe Lieberman believe in the intrinsic value of nature (a thoroughly man-hating idea). Even Jonah Goldberg believes it to some extent.
3 comments:
I didn't know you had warble flies. Those things are nasty.
Ivormectin and its knock-offs control the migration of the grub. Repeated use seems to reduce the fly population. But there were a couple of years when I didn't apply the ivormectin. Then the grubs appear in raised areas on the heifer's back.
why don't the flies bother older cows? Is it some sor tof immunity? thicker hides?
Yikes, that mention of the stupid "tree falling in a forest" thought experiment at the end of the article is a strange dose of Kantian philosophy from Goldberg.
"Opponents of drilling are absolutely right: Oil exploration isn't pretty. The Alpine site looks like a few gravel parking lots connected by a gravel road. There's industrial piping piled up and corrugated trailers and loading paddocks everywhere. The whole place looks like the floor of one of those giant construction pits before they put up a skyscraper in downtown New York."
Hmm, both of those things sound beautiful to me!
The bottom line, however, is that questions of beauty have no place in politics. The whole issue becomes very simple if discussion is guided by the only proper principle for politics: individual rights.
Next time you think that environmentalists have man's interests in mind, and that it's only the radical ones who don't, remember that leaders as mainstream as Jimmy Carter and Joe Lieberman believe in the intrinsic value of nature (a thoroughly man-hating idea). Even Jonah Goldberg believes it to some extent.
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