Although World Wildlife Fund (predictably) rounded up the usual suspect ...
Climate change threatens to disrupt the monarch butterfly’s annual migration pattern by affecting weather conditions in both wintering grounds and summer breeding grounds...Abnormal patterns of drought and rainfall in the U.S. and Canada breeding sites may have caused adult butterfly deaths and less plant food for caterpillars.
Maybe all those old pastures that were cleared for clean, green, corn-sourced ethanol is the culprit responsible for the monarch's decline.
How and why do you people come up with these absurd ideas that ethanol is responsible for killing butterflies?
ReplyDeleteWe don't think that at all. Ethanol is just a symptom of the problem - not the actual problem. The real problem is mindless simpletons like yourself who vote for the environmental legislation that destroys millions of acres of habitat and fills the pockets of envirolice.
DeleteHow? We read lefty newspapers like the New York times that have articles like this:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/opinion/corn-for-food-not-fuel.html?_r=0
ReplyDeleteAnd by a process known as logic (a thought process unique to those who operate businesses and don't want government handouts) we conclude that since there is a hell of a lot more corn being grown now than say, twenty years ago, it has to mean that a whole lot of land that used to be growing things like milkweeds is now growing corn. And we back this up by our special powers of observation (something you don't have) which tell us that all those big hydraulic shovels clearing out scrubland, and all those tile-draining machines ripping up old pastures are probably doing it because the owner is going to plant corn - and statistically, 40 percent will be used for ethanol.
Now the "why" part is a bit more difficult. Because even though I said we employed logic, every now and then we do illogical shit - such as posting things like this in the vain hope that, even if it transforms only one idiot, it will make it all worthwhile.