New Green Web Bulletin Available

Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 13:28:34
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	New Green Web Bulletin Available

A new Green Web Bulletin (#66) "Industrial Forestry and a
Critique of Natural Resource Management", is now available
to activists, by contacting the Green Web. It is about
4,500 words (28 kb) long. It is based on a lecture on 
forestry by David Orton, to students at Mount Allison
University in NB, in early November 1998, for a course
called "Natural Resource Management".

The lecture, given from a left biocentric deep ecology
perspective, used philosophical and practical examples,
situated in a Maritimes and larger context. It 
- covered a critique of "resourcism" - looking at nature
as an object to commodify for human and corporate use,
using the work of John Livingston; 
- described forestry conflicts like Nova Nada, the
Christmas Mountains and Clayoquot Sound, as concerning
clashes of irreconcileable values and described those values,
also outlining the role for the environmentally conscious; 
- discussed the human-centered language of industrial
capitalist forestry and illustrated, using the work of Calvin
Martin, the narrowing of human discourse in regards to
relating to nature as we have socially evolved;
- critically assessed Elizabeth May's recent forestry book
_At The Cutting Edge_; 
- and concluded by describing how the industrial forestry
situation is getting worse and why, and about the need to get
involved. 


Helga Hoffmann, for the Green Web
greenweb@fox.nstn.ca

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