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[pct-l] Old PCT marker on Ebay!
- Subject: [pct-l] Old PCT marker on Ebay!
- From: dude at fastmail.ca (dude)
- Date: Sat Jun 12 19:20:58 2004
- In-reply-to: <cf.e553e64.2df0b982@aol.com>
> IM going to get
> the news media in on this.
PLEASE don't try to bring attention to this. if you want to waste your
time with some wacky earth-burger-left-wing-extremist agenda that does
more harm than good to the trees you are trying to protect, then I
guess that's your business. But I am pleading with you not to bring
attention to yourself because people like you do much more harm than
good to the environmentalist cause. People like you make a very bad
name for conservationists who are trying to work with commercial
interests in order to come to equitable and just solutions for
wilderness management.
The commercial interests already have a significant leg up on those who
want to conserve the wilderness because they are well-funded and
because those in control of our government at the moment are very
sypathetic to their cause. Extremists like yourself only serve to win
more support for the commercial interests because the middle-roaders
look at someone like you and say "that guys a nut and an idiot", then
they vote against anything and anyone that supports legitimate
environment conservation.
I am definitely FOR conserving our national treasures like wilderness
areas, parks, forests, wetlands, etc, but this is *NOT* the way to go
about it. Right now, we just need to keep the corporate interests from
logging, mining, and drilling in our protected areas. There is a huge
push to "put our public lands to work", and part of Bush's "Healthy
Forest Initiative" would allow logging, mining, and drilling in places
like Yellowstone! If you are concerned about protecting the
environment, you will write your congressman and tell him that you do
not like that initiative and that you do not want him to supoort it. I
know that its not as glamourous or high-profile and calling a bunch of
attention to yourself by hiking the PCT with your crow-bar and removing
every PCT marker, but I guarantee you that it will be much more
effective.
peace,
dude
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