Re: Newt, Ecology, Wise use

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From: Cameron L. Spitzer
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 07:42

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It's important that we enviros not tacitly accept the assumptions
behind the Wise Use arguments.  One assumption is that environmental
regulations "cost" property owners.  We should question this
assumption whenever the bad guys rely on it.  Let's point out,
to counter, that the WU "takings" argument is in reality a demand 
for vast government handouts:  The WU folks want the government
to guarantee *speculative investments*.  Investors in extractive
industry *gamble* that they will be able to avoid major costs
associated with their profitable production.  They *speculate* that
these costs will go undiscovered until they move on.
Taxpayers shouldn't bear the risk that these high rollers might guess
wrong and get caught destroying a species or a watershed; sometimes
gamblers should lose.

Cameron

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