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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (103371)5/7/2005 10:43:03 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I think of clearcutting as very brutal and horribly ugly. It really is like looking at the land being raped to me. I understand that it is probably cost effective, but it destroys habitats for wildlife of all sorts. I know that technically one COULD plant a huge variety of seedlings for regrowth, but in reality that doesn't happen. Loss of forests has quite a bit to do with global warming and the rapid environmental degradation in general that the earth is facing.

I don't think cornfields are really a good analogy. Corn is a rapidly renewable crop. If forests sprouted up in a year it would be different, but they don't.

I have interest in, and respect for, birds, but you have to be so careful with them. They cannot take the extremes of temperature that cats and dogs can, and they are extremely sensitive to environmental pollutants that don't bother our four-legged friends (like Teflon). Things you wouldn't really even think about. I also don't believe ideologically in keeping anything caged. There is a huge and famous flock of wild parrots in San Francisco that is often seen on Twin Peaks. I believe they were originally domestic parrots who escaped and found each other. But it would be really nice not to have to say goodbye to so many beloved pets in a lifetime. I guess that is one of the things that makes them so special, makes us love them so much, though.
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