Right on, nitro.

300,000 camels.

Regardless of WHERE they are {logistics aside, that is}, THAT is a very significant natural resource.

I personally support all efforts to make productive, private-sector use of such a resource for the benefit of those willing to make use of it. Seems ridiculously simplistic, but tho the logistics aren't, the solution in the biggest sense seems to be.

One feature of Modernity that infuriates me is the growing insistence on ignoring, downplaying or outright, energetically decrying the commercial use of natural resources. We see it here ALL THE TIME {logging, mining ag county, under attack continuously from the outside}. It is a characteristic of the so-called "Green Movement".

Just last night my son reported to me that the mother of one of the fellows on his Forest Service Fire Crew came up from California to the bunkhouse to visit {...doesn't lack courage, does she...} and my son happened to mention that he worked for some years during high school summers at the garnet mine. Her immediate rsponse was "Oh, dear, shouldn't they be left in the ground???? Why, if you mine it, it will be gone!!"

He swallowed his instinctive "You are a moron" that was begging to be let loose.

A few minutes later, literally, literally, she was chatting about what she intened to do with the rest of her vacation, and she told one of the other fellows that she wanted to go to the public garnet digging area to collect some for herself.

No, no, NO!

DON'T by all means allow someone to benefit by a past mistake!! NO! Don't let anyone feed their kids and encourage a business. Why, that would be stupid! Idiotic even. 300,000 camels??? Why, who could think of such a thing! Such creatures shouldn't be used for a productive purpose, no, let the GOVERNMENT GOBBLE UP TAXPAYER DOLLARS MOWING THEM DOWN {and probably f___-ing up the deal along the way...}!

Yes, there is the solution!

Say with me now, over and over and over and over; "GOVERNMENT...THE CAUSE OF AND SOLUTION TO ALL OF LIFE'S PROBLEMS..."