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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Constructive Posts and Bells of Hope
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- References: <149180307@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 05:46:54 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- In article <149180307@hpindda.cup.hp.com> alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com writes:
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- > My view is that the *environment* and our *impact* on it is the topic here,
- > and the sci.* appellation of the group is a challenge to us to bring to bear
- > whatever scientific knowledge we have on all questions which pertain to that
- > topic, to the best of our ability -- it is not primarily a limitation of
- > scope.
-
- This is an interesting point, Alan. Would you like to expand on it a
- little to suggest a framework by which the results of studies of your
- impact on your environment might be applied to work we are doing on how
- we impact on our environment here in Western Australia.
-
- Any sort of international cooperation along these lines would be very
- greatly appreciated indeed.
-
- > Again, I'd like to point out that the de novo construction of frameworks
- > for discussion about the environment is a complete waste of time when the
- > planet has already adopted one. That framework is Agenda-21, and if we
- > want our cogitations to impinge on the implementable at any point, that
- > should be our basic initial framework for discussion here.
-
- Oh yes, Agenda 21. Are you suggesting here that the Green Bible has
- now been written? Is it too forward of me to now ask how any of its
- recommendations are to be implemented for every different place on
- the planet?
-
- > And, yes, I'm afraid the bad news is that this *does* mean that all of us
- > ought to read it, or at least *aspire* to read it among everything else on
- > the reading list.... [No, I haven't read all of it. About half.]
- >
- > A much less ambitious but still very worthy goal would be to pick just
- > *one* chapter -- your favorite subject -- and read only that one.
- >
- > If you can't *find* a favorite subject anywhere in Agenda-21, the three
- > UNCED treaties (climate, biodiversity, deforestation) or in the NGO
- > treaties (the documents from the broader participation of the Earth Summit,
- > outside the UN delegations), I'd think there was a serious question as
- > to why you are here in sci.environment, or even *.environment.
-
- Is it possible, Alan, that we here in Western Australia might simply
- comply with our own environmental standards, from which among many
- others Agenda 21 was compiled? Or do we have to abandon all of our
- field data and do it all over again under UN supervision?
-
- While you get a job there doing the supervising, I expect?
-
- Gil
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