Our favorite reader comments of 2011, part 2
Welcome to day two of our favorite reader comments from 2011.
We’d like to give a special shout-out to our most consistent reader, Harold. With your almost daily comments you have earned a special place in our hearts. Keep reading!
Harold said:
Wow! And that doesn’t even count the drive-by shootings.
Story: Cleaning up the Michigan oil spill will take hard work, time and money
Amy said:
I started to read this article, but I couldn’t get past the turtles “marinating” in mayonnaise. If it weren’t for the oil, it might sound tasty.
Story: Michigan lawmakers want federal action on nuclear waste
GEO said:
Good thing that we have a good supply of nice, safe, coal!
Story: Another weapon to fight invasive mussels
Nostral-damus said:
I support the mussels. After all, this is change, and we’re supposed to believe in change. Furthermore, for a species which is freely expressing itself, calling it “invasive” is xenophobic. What the EPA is trying to accomplish with Zequanox is tantamount to genocide. Suppose that dolphins were clogging pipes. Would people try to exterminate dolphins? I don’t think so.
Story: Proposal would exempt some road projects from wetlands requirement
Mindy said:
It would also be cost effective to kill all other organisms once and for all anyway. Streamlined, human-ruled planet. Let’s just keep all those little annoying budget-problems like animals, plants, life-sustaining nutrient recycling wetland soils out of the way, eh? Wetlands probably don’t matter… just some muck. Budgets come first before fresh air and clean water, always. Who cares that wetlands store the world’s fresh surface water resources. Although just 0.01% of all the water of our planet, it is crucial for our survival. Nbd… wetlands store more carbon than twice the amount in all the world forests. Loosing wetlands would cause a climate disaster due to carbon releases, but who really cares?
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I stand by my comments. Viva la mussels! For those you of you who do not habla espanol, la mussels is Spanish for the mussels.
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Americans have perfected snappy answers to stupid questions and sassy back talk. Too bad they can’t engage in meaningful conversation that leads to solutions and actually take action. (All before there favorite T.V. Show comes on) Oh crap I just did it.
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Why, thank you. It’s always a pleasure to read your timely and informative articles. It’s also interesting to read the numerous comments which they generate. Of all of my comments, however, I think I was most surprised to see the overwhelming reaction to the monarch butterfly story. Please keep in mind that stories should always inform but, hopefully, many of them should also lead to action.
Best wishes to everyone at Great Lakes Echo for 2012…and keep up the good work!
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GEO’s comment is classic: short, sweet, sarcasm. Gotta love it!
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There’s no such thing as a good invasive species, when we start looking at it from that angle, we might start winning this fight. Controling any system, eco or other wise, you watch out for varibles/defects in the process. Lake Michigan has 2 varibles/defects First is us,we our actions created and maintains our problems. Second is invasive species. If we can get the first defect under control, controlling the second defect is easy. Restoring native fish/predators turns the entire ecosystem into a control, versus barriers, or underwater goby cannons that only affect one spot, and do not reduce invasive species. Native predators will!
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