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Re: Brashears on Hanson
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Subject: Re: Brashears on Hanson
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From: atanu@are.Berkeley.EDU (Atanu Dey)
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Date: 8 Dec 1996 07:17:33 GMT
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Article: 17085 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Organization: the Center of the Known Universe
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Jim (msteitz@xmission.com) wrote:
: I also believe we have become hipersensitive to our own material wants.
: When people support extravagant ecnomic growth, even when it requires
: that our planet face biological meltdown, something is wrong. I think it
: is clear that our priorities must be reordered to reflect the relative
: imporantance of things. On both utilitarian and ethical grounds, the
: environmental agenda, is the logically justified one.
Hear, hear!
Atanu
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