'Drunk 4x4 drivers now wrecking mountains' - Africa

[dArKeR]

By Tony Weaver



The ban on driving four-wheel drive vehicles on beaches has had an unintended and environmentally damaging consequence - some unscrupulous drivers are taking to the Western Cape mountains, damaging rare plant species and creating potentially disastrous erosion.

And the problem is being worsened by farmers, eager to cash in on the growing 4x4 market, bulldozing off-road tracks on their land, often with little or no regard for the environment.

The issue has become a hot topic on email and Internet discussion groups among local environmentalists, but landed in the public eye this week with the publication of the latest edition of Veld and Flora, the journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa.

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The farthest corners of Africa being trashed by 'Sierra Club Go Hike To Hell' fascist ignorant slobs. Is there any doubt the Earth is dead in 60 years?

[Oggy]

1. on the bright side

they will not be able to afford the petrol in the near future.....

[ramapo]

2. People are such &%^$#% pigs

I was listening to AA radio this AM while driving to work. The topic was along the lines of "Do you feel safe?" in relation to the terra situation.

It's funny how there is such panic and obsession with the prospect of terra attacks. Now I do expect there will be such attacks in the future but these are the least of our worries. I do fear the future but it is not the terrorists that scare me the most.

We have met the enemy and the enemy is us. Today is a putrid air day here in NJ. I sat on the highway surrounded by hundreds of polluters, all of us dumb enough to spend obscene amounts of money on our vehicles.

A terra attack, no matter how horrible, is an isolated incident. The relentless trashing of the environment affects every single living being on the Earth. I truly fear for what I've gotten my kids into.

Humans and the other higher forms of life will suffer the most. Take comfort that the insects and such will survive and prosper. Over the eons, Mother Nature will repair the damage we've caused.

[treepig]

3. good point - every month a 9-11 size chunk of the population

dies from vehicular-based air pollution (i.e., from gasoline and diesel exhaust). and a comparable number die from coal combustion.

but as long as the terra'sts are out there, we're in much too much danger to worry about such trivialities as destroying the planet by our copiously wasteful use of fossil fuels.

[TreeHuggingLiberal]

4. Yes, the only thing that i can take comfort in is that

there are at least many others such as ourselves that actually "get it" that all we are doing as a species in poisoning that which gave us life. It is a disgusting trend of humans. We have been force fed the belief that we are the superior beings on this planet whereas in all reality I am no better than a mud skipper or a three toed sloth. The only comfort that I can find is in all of our fellow activists as we fight the hard fight to try to get our public out of in front of the television and into the conversation.