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- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!asuvax!ncar!vexcel!dean
- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: A new outlook on activism.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.181325.6077@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <1993Jan4.165029.5007@vexcel.com> <16B4DED0F.DRPORTER@SUVM.SYR.EDU> <93005.184122SHALEE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:13:25 GMT
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- In article <93005.184122SHALEE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> SHALEE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
- >A bigger negative image problem is trying to stop timber cuts that are
- >not illegal. The attitude that all timber harvesting is wrong is simplistic.
- >Remember in the 70's when using wood instead of oil or plastics was good
- >because they are renewable.
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- I think the attitude about sttoping all cutting is a response to the
- attitude that any cut is justified to save a job no matter what the
- environmental impact. Kind of like physics - an equal and opposite
- reaction. ITs also a result of decades of overcutting.
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- Dean Myerson dean@vexcel.com
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