Seriously? Dude, what an absolute wanker, you are. But, I guess your comment just goes to prove that you got nothing. That, and possibly a secret desire to be a “furry”? Best of luck there.

Eric, are you a “furry,” by chance? Dress up as a grizzly and re-enact “The Revenant?” It would explain all that anger. Grrrrrr. Let it out! LOL

No, just better and smarter than you.

And you don’t know me, but you felt free to call me “a sad, pathetic excuse for a human.” Oh, but wait! You are better and smarter than everyone else. And that justifies your anger and hatred. Good luck, little guy. And yes, anthropogenic climate change IS a hypothesis. Anyone who understands the scientific method, which you do not, knows it. Poor you.

Quick Jake, Squirrels on your keyboard, because the subtext of your diatribe above was “blah, blah, blah, I’m a great person, blah, blah, blah, you’re a misanthrope, blah, blah, blah, because I think I know what you are all about”. You don’t know me. And, your guess as to my philanthropic contributions and volunteering are stupidly wrong. Unlike you, I don’t need to wear what I give (or do) on my sleeve, or announce it to the world, in order to boost my sense of self or “outrank” others. But, hey, kumbaya (wtf?), it sounds like you give and do some good work, good on ya. And as far as empathy and caring for people, again, you don’t know me. I care for a lot of people, I just don’t give a rats-fucking-arse for anyone that (1) that thinks they outranks any animal, (2) believe that “anthropogenic climate change” is a hypothesis, and (3) use the word “gooey” to describe “empathy” for all non-human life. Seems like you could do with working on that empathy of yours as well. Kumba-fucking-yippee-ki-yay Jake.

I expected nothing in return. Charitable donations don’t work that way for the common man. The most you get is a sense of satisfaction, like I do now for my donations to the local food bank of homemade bread and home-grown produce, my volunteering on a crisis line, and the money I am about to throw to a group that builds stoves in the third world. Did you know that a couple billion people live in houses where food is cooked indoors on wood stoves without a chimney? Kills more people than anything else. Oh, but wait. You don’t care about people.

I quit Earthjustice when it became clear that fealty to the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis pretty much killed the environmentalism that I believed in. And no, it wasn’t for the writeoffs. I don’t quite understand why any ordinary individual would think so. If you’re in the top tax bracket and Uncle Sucker covers one-third of your contribution, guess who contributes the other two-thirds?

Quick, Eric. Squirrels on calculators. Tell us. Any individual who makes a charitable contribution for “the writeoff” is either dumb or dishonest. The writeoff game is much more involved for corporations and billionaires, but sadly I am neither, nor have I been. At the individual level, all a writeoff does is maybe cause you to write a bigger check. but never to write one to begin with. My guess, Eric, is that you have never contributed enough to even think about that, or anything at all.

I don’t claim to know what’s “best” for grizzly bears, but yes, we do outrank them. At this juncture, homo sapiens is the globe’s apex predator. You can get all gooey about how terrible that is, but your anger and hatred don’t outrank that fact. Grizzlies and every other creatures exist at our sufferance. It’s a fact, and will keep being a fact.

Kumbaya. Oh, and work on that there empathy of yours, or whatever your crew calls it these days.

So, why did you give so much money to the “unhinged” Jake? What was your expectation for giving that money and what did want in return? What WAS your true motivation? Because it surely doesn’t seem like it was to stop or undo any of the damage wrought by humankind on the planet and its non-human inhabitants. Sounds to me like you did it for purely selfish (self-righteous, perhaps?) reasons and, I assume, for the tax breaks. And “humans outrank grizzlies”? Who says? Oh right, we do, because we “know” what’s best for them and “we will make sure that they stay where we allow them.” Now, who is being arrogant, self-righteous? Keep your precious money, Gollum, because nobody wants assistance from a sad, pathetic excuse for a human.

Ah yes, the prototypical arrogant, self-righteous liberal who’s full of hatred for this or that “troglodyte.” Do you ever stop and listen to yourself, let alone anyone else? Congratulations for doing your little part to elect Donald Trump, by being who and what you are. I know, you don’t care.

In my younger days, I was a significant (for me) contributor to environmental groups. Well over $100,000 to Earthjustice, which still sends me mailers. I stopped doing that about 15 years ago when it became clear to me that they were unhinged. I regret having helped to enable them.

Bears do not have “children.” They have litters. Children are human, and human only. And humans outrank grizzlies, except when (foolishly) unarmed in the yonder. Not that I want to exterminate grizzly bears, but they exist at our sufferance, and we will make sure that they stay where we allow them.

Kumbaya.

Bam!