[Triggerhippie]

Wow just wait until the reparations crowd meets the carbon credit crowd. The Sons of Norway will have to permanently cancel their lutefisk dinners.

(So, all in all, it's not totally bad news...)

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

I’m waiting for the follow-up about Scotland’s vast pine forests (hence,Scotch pines) and how they were decimated by the Royal Navy’s need for masts in the 18th century.

Or, how about the “Native” Americans practice of hunting bison by stampeding the herds over cliffs? They were doing a good job of exterminating them just as they had the mastodons, long before the nasty Europeans arrived.

The point is: Man has done some stupid things to the natural world, but Western civilization is not the cause.

[Grut]

The Sons of Norway will have to permanently cancel their lutefisk dinners.

Oh, I dunno. You have to make allowances for a culture that invented hominy cod.