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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Sheep in Organizations
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- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 09:28:45 GMT
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- In article <58221@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu writes:
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- > Your theory of land ownership is, like any other theory of land ownership,
- > quite far from a "fact". The fact here is that under US law the government
- > "owns" much of Alaska.
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- It gets to the point where I simply shrug, and suggest that *some*
- countries bring their own problems upon themselves . . .
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- > The US wilderness has been compromised pretty much out of existence.
- > Currently, large parts of Alaska remain off limits to development. This
- > leaves an immensity of acreage in private hands and under the ownership
- > of native corporations in Alaska itself, not to mention the rest of the
- > United states. There is no advantage to the general public if we allow
- > the destruction of what little wilderness is left, and we there are
- > intangible benefits for most of us otherwise, even if we never visit
- > our lands up north. The plea for auctions or giveaways of public
- > land is a plea for public charity. I'm all for a good social welfare system,
- > but, I don't believe that it should be implemented by tossing away our
- > precious remaining wild places.
-
- Perhaps your former situation has led to this latter, yes?
-
- Perhaps everyone has got so paranoid about everyone else because no
- latitude is allowed in government or other groups for bargaining and
- compromise, to make the best use of the resources at your disposal
- (including your natural environment). Which may explain the behaviour
- of the US contingent to this forum.
-
- You may find it of interest that we in Australia have no declaration
- of human or citizen's rights in our Constitution? We have the choice
- of getting on with one another or coming apart at the seems, without
- recourse to some "higher authority" enshrined on paper somewhere for
- the lawyers to be bludgeoning us with.
-
- If our Constitution is open to interpretation, that empowers me to
- interpret it myself, as anyone else has a prerogative to exercise that
- together we can get things done we want done (including managing our
- natural environment).
-
- The only real job then is to provide valid and reliable information to
- people on an ongoing basis, allowing them to make informed decisions
- and to vote accordingly. The screamers and hysterics don't get very
- far, BTW.
-
- Gil
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