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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (353201)	2/4/2003 12:14:37 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

My friend, it's time to take Ecology 101 and realize you don't need to cut down redwoods anymore in America these days. It does no good to anyone but a few timber interests. The day has come when building a redwood house is akin to wearing a leopard-skin coat. It is creepy. I was just skiing in Utah. There was a big difference in beauty between one ski resort which had been totally developed (view from up top, not many forests left but lots of roads and houses) and Robert Redford's Sundance surrounded by wilderness and glorious intact forests. Redford's Sundance I recommend because it was a sublime view and much more positive natural experience. (He also charges half as much because he's not greedy.) Clearly the wilderness experience is going to be more and more rare and valuable to people as time goes on. While the forests which are cut down never really grow back. Not in our lifetimes anyway. Think of future generations when you call for loggin of sequoias and other old or somewhat growth forests. And dont think you can trust timber cutters to play by the rules, especially if you take away citizens right to take them to court, as Bush is trying to do. same goes with oil companies drilling in Alaska. And if you donmt think accidents still happen, look at the Spanish coast. A terrible-terrible thing which did permanent damage to fragile sea-beds and ocean life (and therefore human life). Ecology 101 will teach you that the slightest change in balance of nature can set off a chain-reaction which gradually kills the entire eco-system. That is why we need to keep our eco-systems as healthy as possible. It's for our own survival too in the long-term.