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- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!uw-beaver!pauld
- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Subject: Re: Carrying capacity and [in]sanity
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.183411.5583@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Precipitating Pendulums Postal Party Poopers
- References: <om9NVB1w165w@momad.li.ny.us>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 18:34:11 GMT
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- In article <om9NVB1w165w@momad.li.ny.us> siphon@Momad.LI.NY.US (Stimpson J. Katz) writes:
- >Alan McGowen Writes:
-
- [ wherein Stimpson asks a few good questions, and repeats a few
- assertions, but generally offers a conventional
- net.i.am.not.an.eco. nazi response to deep ecology ]
-
- Stimpson then posts something he cites as:
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- >The follwing excerpt is from "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution"
- >by Ayn Rand (editted slightly to bring it up to date and shorten it):
-
- Anyone who believes that this text describes anything other than a
- simple continuation of current practice is blind - patriarchy,
- transportation stupidities, corporate inertia, consumerism,
- distastrous urban planning, commuter living, bedroom communities -
- these are what is described here, mixed in with the legitimate fear of
- fascism and state capitalism.
-
- They're more than blind if they believe it embodies any of the agenda,
- intended or accidental, of "The New Left", let alone the environmental
- movement, deep ecology, or whatever - willfully ignorant.
-
- The wife getting up at 6 to feed the kids - nothing but a load of
- Randian claptrap embodying everyone's fears and no-one's hopes.
-
- -- paul
-
- --
- hybrid rather than pure; compromising rather than clean; | Militant Agnostic
- distorted rather than straightforward; ambiguous rather than| I Don't Know
- articulated; both-and rather than either-or; the difficult | and You Don't
- unity of inclusion rather than the easy unity of exclusion. | Know Either
-