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Re: The Limits To Growth



brshears@whale.st.usm.edu (Harold Brashears) posted this .sig:

>"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic 
>statements, and make little mention of the doubts we may have.
>Each of us has to find a balance between being effective and 
>being honest."
>     - Steven Schneider, proponent of CFC-banning.   
>	"Our Fragile Earth", Discover, Oct. 1987. pg 47
 
I'm glad Harold has brought attention to this stream of
environmentalist thought. It highlights the genuine contempt which
many soi-disant environmentalists hold for the rest of us.
 
Here in Canada there has been a recent scandal when Farley Mowat,
boozer, happy-go-lucky, nationalist agitator, and general hail-fellow
well-met, confessed to fiction in his supposedly factual book on
wolves.
 
The book, a marvellous tale if only because of his story of his
marking off territory by pissing on rocks, wolf style, when he lived
in the wild to study them, exculpated wolves from attacks on caribou,
said that they lived on mice, basically, and that caribou bones were
only found around human settlements.  All three of these are lies.  
 
It may or may not be the case that human over-hunting are a threat to
the caribou -- but this question has been obscured for the next year
or so, until Mowat's dishonesty works its way through the system and
through the public's consciousness.  In the meantime, if there is harm
being done to the caribou, Mowat is the person responsible for it.
 
                                         -dlj.
 

 



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