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[edmonia]

We think that Canada is a modern, industrialized nation, yet in terms of the way we deal with our forests we behave like a developing country. For example, durning the 1990s, the Government of Alberta's premier, Donald Getty, sought to diversify the province's economy. The government saw the province's boreal forest as an under-utilized resource

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[annick_jean]

David Suzuki is my hero. Amanda has that book and I need to borrow it. Granted, it's usually Alberta that acts like Texas, which makes sense, since a large portion of it's citizens are from the U-S.

(bisous)
Annick

[quaesumus]

You know... trees are a renewable resource. I.e., you cut some down, you plant some to replace them... no net loss. In fact, you may end up with a net gain, depending on how many replacement trees are planted. I, for one, question the a priori assertion that cutting down trees is bad.

Just my 2 cents worth... but they're two American cents, so they're worth at least 3 or 4 of yours.

[edmonia]

Trees are only a renewable resource when companies replace what they've taken out. While there are some out there that are environmentally friendly, like Weyerhaeuser, the trees they plant in replacement don't cover what's been destroyed previously (Years and years of bad harvesting practices pre-environmental concerns) . Besides, living where you are, you haven't been able to see first hand the kind of damage that a lot of companies do to land. In a short period of time, they can wipe out an entire ecosystem. Even if trees are re-planted in that area, they don't reach full maturation for roughly eighty years, and by then the damage is done.
Certain harvesting practices are not just bad, they're horrible.
Clear cutting = bad.
You can't deny that we've stripped our globe for human consumption. It's done nothing but speed up the progress at which we are digging our own graves out from underneath our feet. Colloquial, I know, but suiting nonetheless.

[feifalter]

Dad, she just destroyed your pathetic argument. Although, she provided no retort to your devaluing Canadian money (because it's true, I suspect). But I suspect that your personal discourse with me is true, (viz.) that she unreasonably cares about nature as a result of her necessitous wanting of love as a young girl and still (clearly deriving from her unqualified parents that disregarded her presence in this world), and from all that she's developed abnormal caring attributes mentally. I think, dad, that it would be beneficial to her if you'd prescribe a way to reverse this incorrect mental behaviour, for I'm obviously unqualified.

[charlesthompson]

Interesting analysis, feifalter. You're clearly a sage and caring person, looking out for fuck-ups and losers of this dying world. I must know, though: Why do you waste your valuable time on this tree-hugging bitch who is clearly into lechery and heroin. You ought to be putting your wisdom to use, not trying to help a helpless burden on this earth.

Cheers,
Charles W. Thompson