RE: Regulated Chatroom

"We don't think about the roads we drive on until they fail us. We don't care about the rainforest until it's gone. When the lights are on we don't consider what would happen if they were shut off for a week."

There's something to be said for hobbyists and enthusiasts that care about such things even when they're not broken. I'm a big fan of forests. I like all natural places, but forests are my thing. Every year I am all over the local mountains, driving through all the ditched out logging roads. Every year there are fewer ungated, not ditched out roads to destroy my vehicles on. Whole mountains are today inaccessible that used to be open for recreation.

I don't really blame the private landowners, the logging companies, that gate the roads, because assholes dump mattresses and refrigerators all the time, because those things are expensive to dump, mattresses because they get thrown outside and soak up a couple hundred pounds of water, and fridges have coolant that costs money to recover before they can be disposed of. It's pretty easy to get angry at dumpers when you're out to enjoy the beautiful forest and drive up to a landing that's a nice place for a picnic and it's been converted to a dump by a couple skinflints that can't spend $100 to dump their trash.

Personally, I blame BlackRock for raising housing costs, causing the chain of financial stresses that puts the pressure on wagies. Still, there's no excuse for scumbags dumping their trash innawoods, defiling my cathedral, and then the logging companies get tired of cleaning up their messes and gate the roads, and we all get forced into smaller and smaller commons.

Thanks!