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To: Father Terrence who wrote (21789)	5/19/1998 12:48:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I have not been brainwashed by anyone- unlike you, acolyte of Ayn Rand. I strive for balance- science and advancement and yet preservation of what is good about the past. Science has shown us that preservation can lead to advancement. Species in the rainforest may yield incredible drugs- to allow scientists to find these drugs and push forward the frontiers of science we must preserve the rainforests. It is a waste of an economic resource to use them as farmland, anyway, since the land is not suitable for normal crops. So here we find a merging of economic, social and scientific interests. This is only one example, but there are many more. For instance, it behooves us not to overfish the seas. Many species will not recover if pushed past support levels. This does not benefit fishing industries. Besides, a fishing industry that overfishes the seas does not pay the REAL cost of what they are doing. They pay an immediate cost in labor and materials, but they do NOT pay the cost of eliminating that resource forever. If they had to pay that cost, the economics of their indeavor would be prohibitive. Same with strip mining. If a company creates a toxic dump that will last for thousands of years, how does one factor the cost of that? There should be a cost. But at the moment such costs are not factored into business models.