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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Libertarians & the environment
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:41:38 GMT
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- In <1992Jul20.192034.2963@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
-
- >This is such utter nonsense, it shows that your clearly know very
- >little about forest practices. Clearcutting was in use long before
- >there were any government regulations; its been used to decimate
- >forests all over the planet.
-
- I found it interesting how rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth environmentalists
- love the word "decimated." Perhaps that's because most people don't
- know what it means. It sounds so much more awful to say that something's
- "decimated" rather than "reduced by 10%." Not the US forests have been
- decimated recently -- we have more forest land today than we did at the
- turn of the century, and the "environmental" movement had very little
- to do with it. But you won't hear that from extremist environmental
- candidates who believe they have to scare people to get votes.
-
-
- >Why the caricature ? What aspect of deep ecology ("biocentrism")
- >prevents you from recognising the idea that trees deserve rights as
- >trees, not as people ?
-
- Perhaps the same aspect that prevents him recognizing that trees
- should be required to register with selective service. He may be
- operating under the delusion that trees are not people.
-
-