If this does not convince you that humans tend to make problems worse rather than better, read this.
Note that poisoning the pike did not work a few years back, but, so what, we’ll spend more of the people’s money to do it again. Also note that this particular poison only kills creatures with gills. Great, now I feel much better about poisoning a large water system. We won’t even consider the fact that northern pike are a great gamefish in their own right (see right).
As a man of action, the vigilant Skunkmeister has referred the state of California to the UN for employing chemical weapons indiscriminately again their own people. The UN will now try to beat California down with endless resolutions and requests for bribes.
Wait a minute, maybe this poisoning technique, when applied to the Rio Grande, will help stem the tide of the little brown fish. Hey, if the little brown fish return to the river after a few years, we’ll just do it again!
