Posted on 04/26/2002 8:14:18 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
LOL! You guys are making it sound unreadable. It really isn't, it's just that it is emotionally reactivating. Remember what I said in the Preface? (bold added)
As environmental organizations have grown, their common agenda has diverged from its purpose. Their adherents’ principle goal has devolved to pursuit of funding to support a political and legal agenda. They have ignored scientific evidence and overridden legitimate discourse over technical differences in the name of preserving entrenched bureaucracies and political power groups feeding off taxes, grants, and lawsuits. It has even led to an odd form of corporate welfare: membership in an oligopoly in return for selling out or buying up smaller competitors. The consequences have compounded. Ruined lives have been rendered into political cannon fodder. In the con-duct of battle, the environment has been subordinated to the status of a political hostage. Much like a child in a custody case, the object of the dispute is the one that suffers. The worst of it is, it does not have to be this way.And so it is, an emotionally draining experience. SW, you may not like the answer I'm going to cook up for you, but you will see the uncomfortable truth in it.When one begins a process like this, it starts as a polemic, for much of what starts you writing is a sense of what's wrong. This book takes to task environ-mental activists, all levels of government, universities, developers, irresponsible loggers, lawyers, rural/suburban residents, bankers, the urban public, politicians, insurance companies, and more! Each of us is a user of the environment and anyone who would buy this book and read it shares such a love of nature and an investment in how we got here. Maybe we have to see the egg on our faces before we can work with those with whom we have struggled for so long. At least we all have something in common!
Perhaps for some it is enough to simply state an injustice, but love of the land won't let you get away with just that and will lead you to wonder what might be done instead. The polemic took nine months. Taking the answers from the abstract, to the concrete, and then to the elegant took far longer. I have done my best to make them simple. I ask your forgiveness for anything less, but this book had to get out. It is time.
One last thing, just to make it clear. This book was written without financial support from any person, corporate or individual. It was paid for with savings and personal debt. I was provided data from numerous sources from all sides of the arguments. There is no motive other than the reward of having helped people do a better job for nature and to find a way out of the injustices they rightly perceive. It is possible to prosper in harmony with the laws of nature once we begin to act in concert with all of them. Best that we start to learn.
No matter how intelligent people are, how much experience they have, or how much they care, we all have major degrees of ignorance when it comes to understanding our interactions with the environment. I have done my best, within my limitations, to make it honest.
Speak up man, help is on the way. Have you talked to B4Ranch? He knows all the Ranchers up there.
Thanks, I'm lousy at asking for help.
Have you talked to B4Ranch? He knows all the Ranchers up there.
Oh, yes. I will catch him when I make a Sierra trip this summer after the snowmelt, say early July. Gotta make it a camping trip for the kids too! Maybe Daddy gets some target practice as well?
..."well, gooooool-LEEEEE... I coulda SWORE this here was PRIME spotted owl habitat..."
"Suhprize Suhprize!"
...Or will some corrupt politician and some big shot construction developer ruin and destroy it? ...
There is a correct way to handle this situation in a free and lawful society. It isn't takeover by the government from the owner. It isn't to make regulations to tell the owner what to do with his land. It is to gather likeminded individuals and buy the land yourselves. Become an owner of private property. Then you may do with the land as you please.
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
It's stupid lies and slogans like this that prove what enviralism really is: MARXISM
You're not loosing anything, some worthless dust-bin desert is being salvaged and put to the use that the Lord intended: homes for people.
This is off subject, and I do not wish to hijack this thread, but...
The untold truth is that we didn't run out of power last year!
It was all hype in an abortive attempt by our socialist governor Gray-out Doofus to have a government take-over of the power industry. - Check the records, and you will find that there was not one single day where power demand exceeded supply; but in order to have black-outs, 'rolling' blackouts were instituted when reserves reached 3%. - That's the facts, Mam.
I can take it... I think. Bring it on!!!
Yes, this is the ONLY solution, but you will never see it touted in the media because it doesn't empower government (read: Tyranny)
Will it help Dog Gone and me to come to believe that Capitalism should not be a government program as it always has been? That's my question for you!
Hi forester! Did you see they passed the Federal land use planning over-riding Local government monstrosity in SECRET in the Senate, just like they did the "Son of CARA." Now that what I call an abomiNation!!! Marsh2 isn't gonna have any authority left by the time she takes the oath, is she farmfriend?!?
Phil V... when ya gonna post the Friday story about the rip-off rafters plottin to by a PG&E dam, after fightin dams all their imature adult lives? http://www.mtdemocrat.com/display/inn_news/1N_01.txt
Guess I missed that one, I feel so out of the loop now. Do you have a bill number?
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