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01.04.2002
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You may be right / I may be crazy
Chinese Commissioner Li once wrote a letter to Queen Victoria telling her that if she didn't keep a tighter control over those of her savage subjects who were conducting business in China, he would cut off the flow of rhubarb and all of Europe would die of constipation. We've come a long way since then, but governments still show a similar lack of any cohesive worldview:- Sending a US envoy to the Middle East is a startling example of exactly that. Who the hell would see a US envoy as a disinterested third party? Precisely no-one.
- Canadian Premiers travelling the world in support of Canadian businesses? Government in Big Business's pocket; ergo *not* on the side of the voting citizen. I'm shocked that they *don't* expect us to notice this.
- School of the Americas? US imperialism at it's baldest. Hello, these are *obvious.*
What is less obvious is the long-term effects of clear cutting in British Columbia's rainforests. Walking through the trails in the park formerly known as the Seymour Demonstration Forest, you come across areas describing the lumber practises of the early 20th century, accompanied by replicas of the chutes used, or stumps from that era, replete with descriptions of the tree's age and climate changes through which it lived. The pictures from that era show a field of stumps as far as the camera could see; shockingly different from the verdant and lush overgrowth that covers the area now. It is clear that the trees grow back, and that a century's passing brings the forest back to life. but the plaques never tell us how many species disappeared last time, or how many they can expect to go with the next razorjob. I understand the new practises of leaving a certain percentage of the trees standing, and the re-planting industry. I know that it's not as bad as it was. but I'm still afraid. There's still the falling Amazon and the lack of controls placed on industries that operate in what we used to call the Third world. Every tree is an oxygen factory. What will we breathe when they're all done in? Every species is a sacrament, and every extinction is blasphemy. Not to mention the fragile balance of the food chain. what will we do when none of the links connect anymore? A bunch of scientists think they've discovered a way to reduce obesity through chemicals. Better idea: stop breeding a population of couch potatoes and people who drive to the corner store, and stop arguing about the fat tax and lay it on all those chips and soft drinks and chocolates that fat-arsed North Americans eat so incessantly. Fuck, the planet... ourselves... is there anything we *don't* destroy?
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