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  1. Newsgroups: alt.native
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spdcc!gnosys!BU.EDU!genetics.washington.edu!native
  3. From: Steve Smith <beaver.cs.washington.edu!gnosys!SIVM.SI.EDU!SECSI003>
  4. Subject: Environment for its own sake
  5. Message-ID: <9211191529.AA18901@BU.EDU>
  6. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:29:04 GMT
  7. Lines: 25
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  9. Original-Sender: Steve Smith <SIVM.SI.EDU!SECSI003>
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  11. From: Steve Smith
  12.       Institutional Studies Office
  13. Something to add to the environmentalist talk...there seem to be too many out
  14. there who seem to be more of what I would call species-survivalists. They see
  15. the field not as trying to preserve the earth for its own sake, but in terms
  16. of how we are to survive as a species on/in it. Certainly not all, perhaps
  17. not even a majority, but too much talk that I hear, and writing that I read
  18. seems to be filtered through such a lens. Perhaps that's because so much
  19. opposition to environmentalists comes from people who are worried about their
  20. livelihoods, and those concerns ought to be addressed when dealing with them,
  21. but I'd like to be aware of more pure environmentalism out there if that's
  22. possible. If something more deadly and contagious than AIDS were
  23. unassailably obliterating humanity, would environmentalists still be concerned
  24. with the preservation of a world that would survive us?
  25. (an extreme case, no doubt, but I'm curious...)
  26.                                                Steve Smith
  27.                                            (Oneida/Menominee)
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  30. #  We did not weave the web of life. We are merely a strand   #
  31. *    in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.    *
  32. #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#--Chief Seattle, 1854#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#
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