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- From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Native People's leadership (!!)
- Message-ID: <STEINLY.92Jul27185132@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:51:32 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.203754.5809@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Organization: Lick Observatory/UCO
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- In-reply-to: duneman7484@iscsvax.uni.edu's message of 28 Jul 92 01:37:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.203754.5809@iscsvax.uni.edu> duneman7484@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
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- Americans.) What I think is something we have to REALLY think about is why the
- only enviromental "leadership" making headlines are people like Germany and
- Japan's leaders when they go against the US at Rio. ".... Strong environmnetal
- stand by Germany ...." ??
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- Talk is cheap. If every piece of rhetoric received the same coverage
- as the pilicy decisions of leaders of 100million people nations
- then CNN would have the signal-to-noise ratio of Usenet ;-)
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- real. This brings me to another question: why, when speaking of how some native
- people's found a close balance between themselves and nature, is it pointed out
- that they had all these diseases and only lived to be 50 and had very hard
- lives... ?? Really now, tell me, do we really think that our QUALITY of life
- has become so beautiful that "it was worth it?" I see SO much psychological and
- other damage BEACUSE of this lifestyle we've created. STRESS.....!! Sure, we
- live to be 100 -- unable to walk, talk and in a old folks home. Great.
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- Yes. It is great. Try the alternative someday.
- Remember that humans tend to scale crisis on a relative
- scale, as major problems are resolved, lesser problems appear
- more important - stress is quite frankly a trivial problem when
- compared to hunger, and worrying about it is a luxury only
- afforded by the sated.
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- "In the absence of the sacred." I'm talking about the Great Spirit and anyone
- who has really felt it in the warm breeze of summer. Leadership, heroes ...
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- That's nice, I prefer poetry and a good white wine on a sunny
- afternoon, I have little time for spirits, greater or lesser.
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- * Just because there's a reason *
- * Doesn't mean it's understood Specials, 1979 *
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