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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (17487)	3/28/2002 6:14:05 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

I've been studying this environment thing for over 12 years. Kind of a hobby, you know. I still don't get it -perhaps due to my low IQ- why northern people's mind as so fired-up by this rain forests thing. When I don't find a reason I always put it in the psychological shelf. You know like Americans so incensed about defense, which is a result of they watching too many western films where they saw people barricade against furious savages. In the case of forests, I think it is the books they listened to their parents reading before going to bed. I read to my daughter and it dawned on me I am creating a rain forest type of kid. (God forbid!) The stories I read for here has frogs, forests, lakes, meadows and animals etc etc. I think those northerners have listened to those stories and they think about a 2 million+ Km2 (nick-named Green Hell here) of area like their back yard. Then they see wood imprints in cement, and their fired up imagination goes straight to Sarawak, not to a recycled wooden crate made of Australian eucalyptus.