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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (44507)	7/8/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>The sad thing is, there are laws to stop what is being done, but your local government is not powerful enough to stop it. What else can we do? Other than try to raise the consciousness of the consumer, so that demand for illegal goods will decline. Or take matters into one's own hand, try to enforce the law or what ought to be the law, through individual action. But that's probably just fantasy.< I imagine that that is the primary effect (intent, even?) of organizations like Greenpeace and Earth First. They serve to put these issues on the evening news. Very efficient "consciousness raising" strategy. My only lament about those two groups is that they tend to be sweepingly antitechnological on top of being champions of the wilderness