NOTICED: ENDANGERED SPECIES

If we didn't know better, it would be tempting to suspect Al Gore and his climate-change pals of somehow fixing the weather. This winter's wacky extremes read like a page from Al's textbook on global warming. Not only does this now officially entitle the negative Nellies in the Green Party to stick out their pierced pink tongues at us and say, "I told you so," it will no doubt mark the tipping point where the fringe notion of environmental sustainability goes mass. As far as I'm concerned, this is a good thing. I'm all for protecting the habitat of an obscure owl, hitting our Kyoto targets and reducing, reusing and recycling (even though, if you actually cook every day for a family, you would need a full-time garbage wrangler). In all this talk about the environment, however, are we missing another crisis? It seems to me that culture -- or, to speak the language of the environmentalists, a certain valuable species -- is in danger of extinction.

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