Ok, so seal hunting in Canada is bad... how do you feel about the Alberta Tar Sands?

[Electric Monk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_sands

One's a resource that's in demand for export, and the other is... ?



(hint: the word "renewable" is involved the debate there somewhere)

[Birthmark]

1. It's disastrous.

But what the hell, it's profitable.

[Posteritatis]

2. I'm indifferent on the seal hunt, but the tar sands are an obscenity

Alberta needs to get off the oil-uber-alles attitude and get their high school graduation rate above sixty-five percent (these are connected), and that's without getting into the various environmental and economic issues obsessing on those involves.

[MrModerate]

3. Tar sands mining is a really bad idea, but . . .

Seals are an independent life form. There *is* a difference, in kind if not in quotient of wickedness.

[HeresyLives]

4. Well you buy it, you tell me.

[Electric Monk]

5. Floor pie?

[HeresyLives]

6. Quoi?

[Oregone]

7. Tar sands good. Americans burn oil in their engines

Seal blood bad, because it looks yucky

[PDJane]

8. The oil sands are a disaster

and a disaster that is going to keep on giving, since fresh water is in short supply......and the tar sands have to be washed.

[Javaman]

9. Probably the largest superfund type site soon to exist...

that of course if you don't also include mountain topping.

both destroy the land, both use huge amounts of water, both spoil and pollute rivers.

[ensho]

10. tar sands BAD

nt

[Johonny]

11. wait there's a yah Canadians rulz thread on DU today too

are they better than us or not. Man the internet(s) are confusing.

[hunter]

12. Alberta Tar Sands prove that humans do not qualify as "intelligent life."

Judging by that mindless activity humans rank somewhere below the level pond scum; maybe somewhere near the intelligence of anaerobic mud and just as stinky.

Seals are hunted because humans have a strong predatory streak. It does not indicate a lack of intelligence if the seals are not hunted to extinction. I don't wear seal fur. Maybe a thousand years ago I would have, and the seal would also be dinner. But generally the fur trade has always been a wretched business, almost as distasteful as "factory farmed" meat and dairy production. If I'm eating chicken "nuggets" or hamburger or farmed salmon, it's sort of hypocritical for me to oppose seal hunting.