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ET on March 21, 2008 - 12:51pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Glass half full....
This will give forests a chance to recover.

Same paradigm, in fact, applies across the mine and harvest spectrum.
Bad for the economy = Good for Mother Earth

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aangel on March 21, 2008 - 6:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

This came to my mind too, if only I could believe that it wasn't just delaying the inevitable...

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tstreet on March 21, 2008 - 7:55pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Just arrived here from the other thread about how we need to stop growing. But as soon as a crisis hits, we mainly talk about how horrible it is that we are consuming less of our natural resources in the form of lumber, for example. We are going to do everything we can to keep the growth economy going. Fear and greed trumps all.

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