Well, doesn't this just harken back to the origins of the "conservation"
movement... Remember that aside from a few nature-lovers like John Muir,
who always viewed anything "natural" as a higher good than anything
human-made, the founders of the modern conservation movement, such as
Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, were concerned not so much to
*preserve* the natural environment as to *conserve* natural resources for
later exploitation. Pinchot's creation of the U.S. National Forest system,
and also of its Pennsylvania state counterpart, was aimed at creating a
store of timber which could be exploited down the line. The timber-sale
practices of the Forest Service, and the seeming ignorance of many Forest
Service personnel of elementary ecological principles, are the direct result
of this fundamental philosophy which Pinchot built into the organization.
*Conservation* was always *supposed* to be profitable; *preservation* is
something else again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nurev Ind Research" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:10 PM
Subject: [CTRL] When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a
nail:ReDux:
> 7/24/00
>
> Just a few days ago I posted this...
>
> > Nurev Ind Research wrote:
> >
> > 7/22/00
> >
> > One of the most serious problems related to Capitalism, is that it
produces
> > a bumper crop of capitalists who eventually dominate the most important
human
> > institutions. As a result, all these institutions come to serve the
system and
> > those who benefit most from it. The Rich.
> >
> > In the Capitalist system, all solutions to any problem must involve
profit for
> > someone. If it doesn't it is not worthy of consideration. This is why
> > capitalism can be accurately likened to cancer. It spreads until it
chokes and
> > kills all biological systems and the host finally dies.
> >
> > Here below is a small example.
> >
> > Joshua2
> >
> >
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>
> Then I got this...
> -------
>
> Subject:
> Putting a price tag on paradise
> Date:
> Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:23:49 -0500 (CDT)
> From:
> Mark Graffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 20 JULY 2000 AT 14:00 ET US
>
> Contact: Mark Shwartz
> [2][EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 650-723-9296
> [3]Stanford University
>
> Conservationists and corporations often do not see eye to eye
>
> An environmentalist may argue that a rainforest should be protected
> for its inherent beauty, while a logging company executive might
> claim that its real worth lies in its cut timber.
>
> With such a wide range of opinion, is it ever possible to reach a
> consensus on the economic value of a rainforest?
>
> Yes, say 17 ecologists and economists in a new article published in
> the journal Science.
>
> "We must make conservation profitable," says biologist Gretchen C.
> Daily, lead author of the July 21 Science report.
>
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