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Politics : IMPEACH GRAY DAVIS!
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (400)7/1/2003 7:43:19 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1641
 
I know they have alternatives. Your statement imagined a hypothetical situation where they do not. If all lumber companies went out of business then you would not only be dealing with the loss of those companies but also the loss of all new wood.

I'm not saying that the lumber companies should, or should be allowed to, chop down the "last thousand-year-old redwood", but if not chopping it down meant that there would be no more wood, and if chopping it down meant there would be plenty of wood I'd rather chop it down.

Of course if that one tree where the last one, then there would not be plenty of wood if it was chopped down. Maybe you where looking at the situation that way. I was looking at it along the lines of which would be the worse disaster, no more new wood, or no more 1000 year old or older redwood trees, and decided I would rather have the later.

Tim
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