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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:31:35 +0000, Eunometic wrote:

> "netvegetable" <netvegetableN0T@dodo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:<pan.2004.10.05.08.44.49.79398@dodo.com.au>...
>> Here is an industry that employs less than 6000 people in Tasmania.
> 
> 
> Yeah, lets use concrete, steel, aluminium and other net greenhouse gas
> producers instead of wood.
> 
No fuck that. Let's just use plantation timber. The overwhelming majority
of logging in Tas is done in plantations ... And given that only 7000
people are employed in that industry (according to the abs) it's only a
tiny minority of people who are threatened by the proposed moratorium on
oldgrowth areas.

> 
>> These are people who made a choice to become stooges for an unviable
>> industry, .
> 
> What does old growth forrest mean?  I.E it has NEVER been logged or it
> does it mean it hasn't been logged for 20 years and is re-established?
> 
It means there are trees hundreds of years old in the Styx valley and
Tarkine. They are the tallest hardwood trees in the world. Whole
ecosystems have developed around them.

>> help demolish a World Heritage value site and reduce it to toilet paper
> 
> In other words it is not world herritage site but is considered in your
> opinion to be world herritage value?

And the opinion of the IUNC, and the Australian Heritage Commission. And
the opinion of pretty much every authority on the matter you will find ...
except Forrestry Tasmania, a govt body which is for some reason excluded
from the FOI Act.

> 
> The fact is that neigther the Greens or the Forrest industry association
> can be trusted but the Greens are the worst exaggerators and hypocrits.
> To them ANY conservation effort that was not initiated by anyone but
> them is inadquet: they do need something to scream about don't they?

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