[892] in libertarians
Re: Earth Day Rally
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph C. Baxter)
Mon Apr 17 21:11:08 1995
Date: 17 Apr 95 21:02:50 EDT
From: "Joseph C. Baxter" <74352.3634@compuserve.com>
To: Libertarian List <libertarians@MIT.EDU>
/While I don't accept the devastation figures below, I did want to let you
/know that the rainforest regeneration does not happen like Alabama's. The
/rainforest ecosystem soil is very thin, and most of the nutrients are kept
/in circulation in the plants themselves, and underneath that thin soil layer
/is highly inorganic material. I'm libertarian, not communist, no flames
/please! :)
First, I concede that, yes, the soil structure of rain forests are very
different from red clay and sand I found underfoot during my childhood, however,
my somewhat exaggerated point was that one never hears about how quickly the
rain forest creeps back onto these cleared areas. How long does it take to
reforest an acre? Ten years? Fifty? A hundred? Could it be that the "problem"
of the Amazon is one of statistical interpretation? You tell me; I can't get a
straight answer from the so-called experts.
Second, one would have to be quite naive to believe that the driving intellects
behind the "green" or "environmental" movement are anything but Socialists.
Their ultimate goal seems patently to be the complete deindustrialization of the
world in favor of a return to an agrarian, horse-drawn, wind-&-sun-powered hell
that our ancestors slaved to end. If the folks at Greenpeace & Co. have their
way we will have no oil, no gas, no nuclear power, no plastic, no meat, no
timber, no paper, no fur, no leather, no cars, no trains, no planes, no guns, no
freedom, no liberty. What we will have is fields of soy beans tended by serfs
and plowed by mule. These kooks would gleefully and summarily piss away two
hundred years of progress to save a damned owl. They will be swollen with pride
when they condemn a person's land and a person's livelihood to "protect" a rat.
They will jail a man in the name of the Earth if cuts down his own trees. They
will take what you have earned in the name of fairness to your brothers and the
Earth. They will have their thugs shoot you if you defy them.
Choose your allies carefully, friend. Here, at least, I think you know where
you stand because people speak plainly. Can you be so sure of this with the
"environmentalists"?
Joe B.
