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- From: stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu (Stephen Jascourt)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Sheep in Organizations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.074739.19527@meteor.wisc.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 07:47:39 GMT
- References: <JMC.92Dec23184831@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <58002@dime.cs.umass.edu> <JMC.92Dec24180245@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <JMC.92Dec24180245@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >In article <58002@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >
- > In article <JMC.92Dec23184831@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- > >is unfortunate that so much land in the West is in the hands of the
- > >Federal Government. The Federal Government should auction off 3/4
- > >of its land in the Western states including Alaska.
- >
- > To what end? Instead the government should start acting to preserve the
- > property of the general public, instead of allowing it to be degraded for
- > the profit of a few well connected welfare ranchers, miners,
- > loggers, and tourist concessionaires.
- >
- > Statist? Your logical deductions are not truth preserving.
- >
- >Well, Yodaiken wants to keep the land in Government hands, and he
- >regards people who might buy the land as "a few well connected welfare
- >ranchers, miners, loggers, and tourist concessionaires." That's
- >pretty statist. Also his posting is as close to a howl as we commonly
- >get on Usenet.
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
-
- In a land as rich in natural resources and poor in infrastructure as Alaska,
- Yodaiken is probably correct in anticipating what the results of private land
- ownership will be -- massive environmental destruction to exploit natural
- resources. There certainly is a good deal of precedent for this. Perhaps
- McCarthy thinks such an outcome would be a desirable result.
-
- Note: I will be out of town until Jan 6; I might or might not get to read
- news while I am gone, so please e-mail followups as well as posting (so I can
- respond).
-
- Stephen Jascourt stvjas@meteor.wisc.edu
-