The Green Files > Americans play God, yet again

http://www.northspace.com [NorthSpace] This is somehow totally symptomatic of the American perspective of nature. Instead of doing the hard work of looking at how modern forms of land use negatively impact the sustainability of existing threatened species, they take the quick and sexy approach of creating some sort of artificial living museum by reintroducing large mammals to North America.

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http://amormundi.blogspot.com [amor mundi] More on Why the Future Starts Now: Comments on the CRN blog itself are especially exemplary of the sorts of attitudes with which technoprogressives must grapple continuously. One response there seems to propose we bypass the contentious but necessary public redress of social ills altogether and focus on engineering questions instead and hope for the best, while another response seems to suggest people who hope to maximize social justice should act more like "capitalists" or at any rate "reformers" (just some oddball constituency apparently) should trust to capitalism to provide and, again, hope for the best.

Forests.orghttp://forests.org [Forests.org] Forest Conservation Blog: Forest Conservation Archives: Ecological Internet < http://www.EcologicalInternet.org/ > provides the World's largest, most used and comprehensive sources of environmental sustainability portals, information retrieval and analysis services on the web.

http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com [Earthmeanders.blogspot.com] Earth Meanders: May 2004: Global ecological sustainability depends upon diffusion of a new code of conduct. Respecting and caring for the Earth must become the highest judge of an individual and the merit of their actions.

Motherjones.comhttp://www.motherjones.com [Motherjones.com] Culture Change: In every category, consumers now have real alternatives to ‘business as usual.' The deep-sustainability view is that it is better to have smaller independent companies under local ownership that can keep money and jobs in communities and keep products moving up the ladder of sustainability." David Korten, author of When Corporations Ruled the World, adds that sustainable businesses must be "human scale -- not necessarily tiny firms, but preferably not more than 500 people -- always with a bias to smaller is better."

Blog.johnkerry.com[Blog.johnkerry.com] The Official Kerry-Edwards Blog: called "delusion of grandeur", symptomatic of Schizophrenic .to represent) in our American politics stems .

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