{"id":93,"date":"2010-01-28T08:13:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2010-01-28T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:16:05","slug":"93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/93\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number&#8221;&#8230;Theodore Roosevelt&#8230;how about for Minnesota?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore Roosevelt would probably have seen our struggles with the pollution from Copper Nickel Mining somewhat differently than Iron Range Politicians in Minnesota, both quotes are &#8220;spot-on&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The &#8216;greatest good for the greatest number&#8217; applies to the number  within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an  insignificant fraction. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn  generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority  from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.\u00a0 The movement for  the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the  conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in  spirit, purpose and method.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<\/em><span>When they call the roll in the Senate (Congress or State Legislatures), the Senators  do not know whether to answer &#8220;Present&#8221; or &#8220;Not guilty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Roosevelt was reviled in his day by many for his protection of  fish, wildlife, forests and American antiquities. His critics charged him with  locking up timber and mineral resources on federal land that would best  be consumed immediately.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 We sure could use a few Roosevelt, long-term thinkers and doers in Minnesota these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodore Roosevelt would probably have seen our struggles with the pollution from Copper Nickel Mining somewhat differently than Iron Range Politicians in Minnesota, both quotes are &#8220;spot-on&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The &#8216;greatest good for the greatest number&#8217; applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Our [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}