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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (247028)	4/11/2002 2:53:27 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

My whole point is that logging and mining can be done in an environmentally sound way, it's the dummies that have no consideration for the commons that screw it up, like Hurwitz. If you do mining or logging, it should be the same area when you're done, over a reasonable few years. I'm doing a hobby mine on a parcel I own, that won't affect erosion or visuals. Likewise, logging has to be done in a sustainable way, to leave the next generation the same kind of environment. If you take full responsibility for your actions, you end up with a problem cutting thousand-year-old trees, or building nuclear power dumps, and pretending the public risk factor is "manageable", when in fact you can make no such guarantees, and to say so is dishonest. It's my belief in the 21st Century we can make a living without increasing the public's risk or degrading the environment. Any excuse to the contrary is like Reagan and Bush II leaving the next generation with another few trillion in debt, with the feeble excuse, "because we had to!", and ignores alternatives and ingenuity. I'm happy to abide by environmental objections to real estate developments and other environment-impacting activities I've been involved in, and don't go into these activities thinking otherwise. I consider the Japanese system interesting, where 100% of the affected neighbors have to agree, before development occurs, so, for example, 7th generation rice fields exist next to large cities, because the owners didn't want to sell, and weren't forced to. If you want to build a skyscraper, you have to get everyone's approval even on solar rights. That reduces the easy money, but it also makes sure to involve everyone in deciding the future of the commons.