On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:15:36PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> But okay, let's just imagine that the environmental movement _doesn't_
> have more than its share of nut jobs. So what precisely is the end result
> of all this environmentalism? Precisely. Not some pie-in-the-sky nebulous
> utopian statement. Something that precisely defines what is and what
> isn't acceptable use of the environment, and an acceptable trade-off
> between progress (as defined by the sadly misguided few of us who believe
> that the environment is here to serve us) and environmental protection.
No, the *reason* you're not going to find an end result is because
we've not done it yet. You can't judge progress without having already
been there, or without having something fairly accurate to relate it to.
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- Isaiah
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