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- From: cvakgaaq@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: The overpopulation problem. NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.122731.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 20:27:31 GMT
- References: <3920@master.CNA.TEK.COM> <Nov18.190826.60351@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- In article <Bxz4GK.JxL@inews.Intel.COM>, jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov18.123756.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>, cvakgaaq@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
- >
- >> Who gave you title to your "favorite" bit of backcountry? I'll bet
- >> someone else claims you ruined it when you came along and used it.
- >
- > The first 50 people to get in a 50-person lifeboat have a perfect right
- > to tell the 51st "Sorry, next one".
- >
- >> Austin Moseley
- >> --"The Earth is just an apparatus for human ambitions."
- >
- > "This lifeboat is full."
- >
- > --
- > John Reece
- > Not an Intel spokesman
-
- Situational ethics consist of introducing a contradiction then asking
- the challenged to resolve the unresolvable. It's illogical.
-
- I disagree that anyplace is a lifeboat-situation. The Earth is hardly
- crowded. If 4 billion people can exist at subsistence conditions in
- collectivist countries, then perhaps 30 billion could be comfortable in
- Capitalist, free nations in their place.
- The Backcountry is hardly crowded. Go up into the Sierra now if you
- want solitude or visit some of the North Faces. Nevada is empty as is
- Washington state. Canada is a practical vacuum. Siberia is as empty as any
- place can be. But, then, maybe the emptiness you seek is to be found somewhere
- else..
-
-
- -Austin Moseley
-