RE: NANFA-- Carillio in the news

Robert Carillio (darterman_at_hotmail.com)
Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:36:36 -0400

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Jay... yes you are right. People need to learn "how to think" When I
mentioned developers, I was just referring to a much more degrading practice
to a stream and native fishes, than mere collection of a few fish by a
couple collectors....

>From: "Jay DeLong" <thirdwind_at_att.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: RE: NANFA-- Carillio in the news
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:12:09 -0700
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> > Jay... that's just what I see as well... I mean, as developement rips up
> > habitat, how can we have the fish??.. Yet developers are hardly EVER
>held
> > accountable for the damage they cause, because to speak out
> > against it seems
> > to be sacreligious! It's a mind set that has been around since Thomas
> > Jefferson... How archaic!
>
>Now, Rob, be realistic :-) The people on our continent (and worldwide) who
>believe that protecting species from extinction, conserving natural systems
>and maintaining biodiversity (i.e., that nature has an intrinsic value that
>transcends its value as a resource to be owned and exploited) are a
>minority. The developers themselves aren't the cause of the problem. Here
>in the US, we have a dominant ownership and exploitative mentality based on
>certain human value systems-- Western religions, politics and economics.
>Try to objectively discuss any of these with a proponent and you'll see how
>fixed they are as Truths in people's minds :-) I've said it before and
>here it is again: Stop telling people what to think and teach them how to
>think (problem-solving, critical-thinking methods, etc).
>
>--
>Jay DeLong
>Olympia, WA
>"You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in
>favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes
>a
>year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20
>against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual
>responsibility for the environmental problem."
>~William D. Ruckelshaus, former EPA administrator in Nixon Administration,
>New York Times, 30 November 1988
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