An overblown response

Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:15:14 -0400 (AST)
From: Owen Hertzman <hertzman@atm.dal.ca>
To: kchishol <kchishol@fox.nstn.ca>
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Thank yo for your comments regarding this issue.  i agree with a great
majority of what you said, though I do tak issue with your last couple of
comments.

1)  The environmental issue is PROFOUNDLY political.  The two most
important environmental issues today are overconsumption throughout the
industrialized world and the coninuing rise in the global population.
As I said to my class yesterday while discussing the issues of ozone
depletion and global warming "if I could drop magic dust on everyone while
they slept tonite to make them only consume what they truly needed and a
small fraction of what they wanted, the world's ecnomic system would be in
profound crisis within a week or a month".  This surely has political
implications.

2)  ABout the "right-to-farm" groups and how to oppose them (since they
are attempting to stifle debate by asserting rights which are not in our
constitution).  IN a place as small as PEI it's a very tough call when
figuring out how to deal with this.  The overuse of pesticides both on
farms and next to homes is one of the very toughest issues if you're
asking truly ecological questions about the planet and the future.  Where
do people's rights end and nature's begin?  I could go on but I have a
class in a few minutes.

Let's just keep talking and acting as well as we can on these issues.
Later.   OH

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Owen Hertzman                     E-mail: Owen.Hertzman@Dal.Ca
Dept. of Oceanography             Phone: (902) 494-3683
Dalhousie University              FAX:  (902) 494-2885
Halifax, NS CANADA, B3H 4J1

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