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Article #63796Re: August 20, 1993 News Release from Clayoquot Blockade
From: emd
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 03:12
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 03:12
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jamie@cs.sfu.ca (Jamie Andrews) writes: > > >Whats your idea of compromise? > >Complete and utter surrender to the ecofacists? > > One indicator that a true "compromise" has been achieved is > when there are a fair number of people on each side of the issue > that are opposed to the solution. No such luck in this > situation, where environmentalists from across BC, across > Canada, and around the world are opposed to the "compromise" > while the forest companies/unions seem pleased as punch. > You obviously haven't talked to the loggers, who, contrary to your description aren't happy about the compromise, but are prepared to accept it for the greater good. Of course, they expected that reasonable people could come to a reasonable arrangement, and that everyone would try to make it work. The environmentalists in this case certainly seem to have regarded each attempt to resolve the situation as another opportunity to delay making any decision at all. emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca (Robert Smits, Ladysmith B.C.) Claiming that sex education leads to irresponsible sex is like claiming that driver education leads to car accidents. Laurie.Mann
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