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To: epicure who wrote (104363)	5/17/2005 12:03:43 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

When I was in Ireland we would watch the Irish news, and so much of it seemed dominated by America. Certainly when you watch the news in America, it is also mostly dominated by America. Nary a word about Ireland, or most other countries. I don't think most Americans understand how oppressive that might feel. Did you watch the news when you were in Scotland? Was it a similar experience?

To: epicure who wrote (104363)	5/17/2005 1:40:29 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Excuse me, but you are just plain wrong. I'll give you an example. Go to Mt. St. Helens blast zone, to the boundary between land owned by a large corporation and land owned by the federal government. You can look up the boundary and see which is which. The industrial land thrives with a new forest that is well advanced in juvenile growth. The corporation that owns it intends to manage those trees according to their land use objectives, which is hardly rapacious, nor despoiling. The federal land has a lot of bare ash, but new plants are coming according to natural laws. A corporation would scoff at the federal land because it is not producing wood, but the federal objective is to demonstrate the succession of regrowth to be expected after a cataclysmic event such as a volcanic eruption. Both entities are meeting their objectives in different but equally valid ways. You can hardly call either rapacious or despoiling. I don't know much about your lifestyle, but because you are a human being you are taking a little bit of space out of the environment. That space cannot be used for anything else. You refuse to acknowledge the effort and resources that are expended to make your lifestyle possible. Because of that refusal it is YOU who are rapacious and despoiling. You don't produce like the industrial land in the Mt. St. Helens blast zone, and you don't diversify the environment like the federal land in the Mt. St. Helens blast zone. You just take up space and consume resources. care for the land- rather than the rapacious sense of despoiling it that our government and corporations seem to have.