Maintain Jobs or Endanger Environment?

Politicians and the folks whose current jobs/livelihoods are at risk are mightily tempted to say: "Save the jobs now, the heck with the fish, the owls, or whatever part of the environment (other than people) that is saying, "you people are killing us and ultimately yourselves.""

We are not on top of or outside of the environment no mater how tempted we are to put ourselves there.

clipped from news.newamericamedia.org The feds’ action has fallowed farms in “one of the richest agricultural regions in the world,” said Carol Whiteside, president emeritus of the Great Valley Center, a non-profit that was set up to promote the economic, environmental and social wellbeing of the Central Valley. “No water, no jobs,” is the dismal mantra you hear everywhere around Huron these days, as a combination of a long-standing drought and a federally enforced diminished supply of water from nearby lakes has turned this once bustling city half way between the giant metropolises of San Francisco and Los Angeles into a land of the hungry. Water Woes Imperil California City