Memorial Weekend Ruined
I just left Refugio State Park hours before the spill and there were many campsites that were set up or were setting up for the Big Weekend. Refugio Oil Spill
Forum Discussion
toedtoes wrote:
As a Californian, I take issue with that statement. There are MANY environmentalists in California and to suggest that the only "real" ones left is extremely insulting. Talk about the "I got mine" attitude - how about the suggestion that true environmentalists would just walk away from California and leave it to be destroyed. Perhaps those that walked out are the ones who weren't "real" and didn't care enough to stick around and work to make it better.
Work to make it better? If half of the things found to possibly cause cancer in California really did, the labels wouldn't be the laughing stock of the rest of the country. Hetch Hetchy has been destroying SF Bay for 50 years and nobody in the central valley or southern California cares.
EDIT There are no free flowing rivers in California and even with all that diversion and distruction of natural habitat, the state can't sustain it's current lifestyle. What does the future hold? If they survive the current drought, it will be soon forgoten. No lesson learned.
