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In ca.politics phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) said: 
 
 
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>Look -- if YOU want forests, YOU buy them and preserve them. 
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The forests that are owned by the country are already owned in part by
myself. These forests should be preserved. 
 
I do believe that those of us who believe that it is important to preserve
the ecosystem should start buying the land. It is very clear to me that
many do not think it is important and will resist forever any attempts to
force them into participating in saving the planet. Many do not even
believe that the planet is dying or that it matters even if it is. 
 
Once we start owning the ecosystem we will in fact own the true wealth of
the planet. The major problem with the economic system is that it does not
value the ecosystem as it should. This has adverse consequences in that the
environment continues to degrade. On the other hand it has some benefits.
The benefits are in the cost of the land. If you buy a house on a quater
acre of land in the middle of San Francisco it may cost you $500,000. This
land will have very little value in terms of the environment. There in fact
may be no substantial ecosystem at all. On the other hand, if you take that
same $500,000 and spend in on land in Medicino county or Oregon or Montana
you will be able to buy 100s or even 1000s of acres of substantially
undisturbed land. My suggestion is that anybody in the position to buy
property should buy it with the assumtion that its value is determined by
its environmental quality rather than the erroneous value set by our
somewhat distorted economy.