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- From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.142921.10614@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:29:21 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: The Criterion for Ecocentrism
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- References: <1992Nov17.153842.18622@pmafire.inel.gov> <-1363821639snx@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au>
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- In article <-1363821639snx@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au> gil@Gilsys.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick) writes:
- >
- >The only extant examples of actual land resumption as such, have in
- >fact only arisen where road widening or intersection development is
- >considered appropriate for safety reasons (ie, to repair a traffic
- >"hot-spot"). Of course the people most affected will campaign actively
- >against having several metres of their front garden resumed to roadworks,
- >and then having to live with trucks rumbling constantly by their living
- >rooms.
-
- As happens here...
-
- >It is just that the courts are there as a last resort if the project
- >cannot finally be settled, and even then only small sections of the
- >final proposal may need a judgement handed down on them. Again, it
- >is simply democracy at work, nothing more and nothing less. Exactly
- >the same process is involved with any issue, including the siting of
- >manufacturing processes and managing their emissions, or the special
- >allocation of land for niche farming of emus or alpaccas, or angora
- >rabbits, or anything at all. Whatever.
-
- Pretty much as it happens here as well. We typically call it zoning
- ordinances, which dictate what types of construction can happen where
- and to what standards the construction must be done. Permits are required
- for some uses, and large impact projects (such as the siting of a coal
- fired electrical generating plant) may not even be permitted.
- >
- > > If it's not done often, and there is a court process, then your system is
- > > very similar to ours. I wonder, then, if that makes us communistic?
- >
- >Heaven only knows . . .
-
- I think the point, if there ever was one, is moot. Our systems are far
- more similar than they are different, labels notwithstanding.
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- ...Dale Cook "I don't much care how a man prays -- there's plenty of
- room in hell for all of us." --- "Mad Jack" Duncan
- The opinions are mine only (i.e., they are NOT my employer's)
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