No kids, so I don't care what happens in the future. I want toI don’t know if you’re serious or not, but some conservatives have that attitude. Ronald Regan’s Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, believed that and stated so:
exploit the environment for all it's worth now and to hell with
future generations.
Quotations
"My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns." -- James G. Watt, The Washington Post, May 24, 1981
"We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber."
"That is the delicate balance the Secretary of the Interior must have: to be steward for the natural resources for this generation as well as future generations. I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns; whatever it is we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources needed for future generations." -- James G. Watt, testimony before the House Interior Committee, February 1981
"I never use the words Democrats and Republicans. It's liberals and Americans." -- James G. Watt, 1982
"We have every mixture you can have. I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent." -- James G. Watt, describing the members of the U.S. Commission on Fair Market Value Policy for Federal Coal Leasing to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983; from Bartlett's Online
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