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  1. Newsgroups: talk.environment
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!gn.ecn.purdue.edu!constant
  3. From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
  4. Subject: Re: Lets pulp hemp for paper, not trees
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan8.165900.26795@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
  6. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
  7. References: <1993Jan8.180244.90925@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
  8. Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 16:59:00 GMT
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  11. In article <1993Jan8.180244.90925@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
  12. >        I was listening to the radio the other day, and the hourly
  13. >news report mentioned how protesters were preparing themselves to
  14. >go to Tasmania (an island state of Australia) to prevent logging
  15. >(for woodchipping and ultimately paper making overseas) from taking place.
  16. >
  17. >Now if only there wasn't such a social hangup about hemp.
  18.  
  19. Replace "hemp" with nuclear power, DDT, CFCs, PCBs, CO2, or animal research
  20. and you'll see how environmentalists attempt to turn scientific issues into
  21. social ones when they can't win.
  22.  
  23. Tino
  24. -- 
  25.      "Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders..." - J.D.
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