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To: Michael M who wrote (52786)	8/22/1999 9:09:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

I wanted to ultimately know the relative value of a human life and an animal life according to our resident environmentalists. Part of the problem, I suspect, is that we haven't got resident environmentalists, except perhaps Christine, who did not participate in the discussion. Most of us are to some degree concerned with environmental problems, but I don't know of anyone who identifies closely with the extreme fringe of the environmental movement that has recently appropriated the "environmentalist" label. And we were certainly not talking about "the relative value of a human life and an animal life". We were talking about the degree of sacrifice that might be justified to save two different species, under highly hypothetical circumstances which were in one case underspecified and in the other overspecified. A great deal could be said about the whole problem of endangered species legislation, but I think it would be more useful to tackle it directly.