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- From: alanm@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Alan McGowen)
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:39:00 GMT
- Subject: Re: Constructive Posts and Bells of Hope
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- / hpindda:sci.environment / dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) / 11:50 am Jan 19, 1993 /
- >All levels of debate have value, but I think internal G/green debates
- >get the short shrift. Greens of whatever stripe have much
- >to gain by occasionally ignoring outside voices, especially the
- >shrill ones, huddling together and then coming out with the result
- >of that discussion to the larger audience. As long as we do not
- >forget that the larger audience is the final field of debate,
- >small-scale caucuses have much value. It is really only up to
- >the participants to decide the framework for a particular thread
- >and then _stick_ to it.
-
- Very well put, Dean. And while we are at it, let's not forget that the
- "larger audience" is *not* the posters in sci.environment, but the citizens
- of the US and the international community.
-
- If I often seem to address my remarks mainly to the US readers, that is
- because I do -- and because I feel we need to make some significant
- progress in cleaning up our own national act before we can expect others
- to take our "leadership" seriously again. I don't mean to exclude others
- from the discussion, but I expect that I will often be talking about US
- legislative initiatives.
-
- I also think, as I've said before, that the broad framework for our
- discussion here should be taken fron UNCED. This applies also when
- considering US initiatives.
-
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- Alan McGowen
-
- "By the faces we show each other and the world... we force the spring."
- -- Bill Clinton.
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