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   Yep, Tom Gray  said to All on 27 Nov 94  21:43:00 
      about: Environment facing rough era....
 

 >  From: Tom Gray <tgray@igc.apc.org>
 >  By Bonner R. Cohen
  ...

 >  The victorious House Republicans' "Contract with America" did not 
 >  contain a single environmental provision, a clear indication that 
 >  Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich of Georgia will deal with a different 
 >  set of priorities during the first 100 days of the new Congress. 

  One thing about Gingrich, he is a strategist.  He also has some
  environmental training, does not seem to be rabid anti-environmentalist,
  has supported some environmental legislation.  We need to push him now,
  our strategy: "If only CONSERVatives would return to CONSERVation, we
  would return to the Republicans."   76% of Americans consider 
  themselves environmentalists.  

 >  Private Property Rights: Among the first pieces of legislation to 
 >  see the light of day in the 104th Congress will be a bill, or 
 >  bills, strengthening protection of private property owners against 
 >  Federal encroachments. Many of those encroachments are the direct 
 >  result of environmental statutes, notably the Endangered Species 
 >  Act (ESA) and Federal wetlands regulations. The property rights 
 >  movement has become one of the most potent grassroots political 
 >  forces in the US, and few Congressional observers doubt that a 
 >  landmark property rights bill--either by itself or attached to 
 >  other pieces of environmental legislation--will make its way to 
 >  President Clinton's desk. 
  
  "Encroachments"???
  
  No doubt this is how they see it.  In fact part of the 
  anti-environmental "Wise Use" movement, "Private Property Rights" 
  is nothing more than a sell-tag to hamstring environmental progress.  
  In favor of more US Forest roads, of old mining laws and old cattle 
  grazing laws that virtually give away valuable taxpayer's land, 
  they are also against a federal biological resources survey in our
  National Parks.  One is often hard-pressed to find the Private 
  Property connection.  Most dangerous is the proposal to PAY 
  polluters and such not to pollute and such.

  This would effectively block all new enviro legislation for financial
  reasons.  We should pay people not to shit in the street?  Pay people
  because their shit-in-the-street business is now worth less?  Pay
  everybody who owns a wheelbarrow or land that could potentially be 
  used to haul shit because wheelbarrows are now worth less?  Oh really?

  Perhaps we should pay theives not to steal also?  My guns are worth
  less because there is a law against bank robbing, should I be payed?
  No law against bank robbing could be passed if these "Wise Use" laws
  go into effect.  We couldn't afford it.

  "Private Property Rights" is nothing more than a front for who-cares-
  if-it-trickles-down-economics and the hyper-capitalistic-Libertarianism  
  philosophy of "greed as good".  The packaging is very slick, the
  propaganda emotional and effective.
  --Doug


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