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- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Libertarians ... ($ is not the question)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.191131.21944@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:11:31 GMT
- References: <92202.230702MEK104@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- In article <92202.230702MEK104@psuvm.psu.edu> MEK104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >I appreciate the passion with which you write. Just don't forget that a
- >very significant life form that forests support is us. Its a simple fact
- >that we need forest products to survive as a society.
-
- Not true. We need trees to support us as a society, not forests.
-
- Don't be alarmed that
- >the forests are disappearing (North America, I'm talking about), because
- >they aren't.
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- I'm afraid they are. The tree count might be constant, or even
- increasing, but the acreage of actual forest, as opposed to tree farms,
- is decreasing.
-
- -- paul
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- Paul's housebuilding credo:
- Measure it with a micrometer, cut it with a chainsaw, fit it
- with a sledgehammer
-