02-08-2007, 07:36 AM
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On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:32:22 GMT, "Jeff Strickland"
<crwlr@verizon.net> wrote:
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>"Mike Vandeman" <mjvande@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>news qahs2lk6ckd0t5iq6alafu54ek4tuh7gu@4ax.com.. .
>> Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans!
>> Michael J. Vandeman, Ph.D.
>> October 12, 1997
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>> "Of what avail are forty freedoms, without a blank spot on the map?"
>> Aldo Leopold
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>> "For every living creature [including humans!], there are places where
>> it does not belong." p.251 "I believe it is a public responsibility to
>> safeguard what we can of wilderness before the great push of man's
>> numbers; and to safeguard with it ... the shy wild ones that need
>> man-less expanses in which to thrive." p.262. Paul L. Errington, Of
>> Predation and Life
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>> "I confess to further disquieting thoughts as to how much moral right
>> man actually has to regard the Earth as his exclusive possession, to
>> despoil or befoul as he will. Man has or should have some minimal
>> responsibility toward the Earth he claims and toward the other forms
>> of life that have been on the Earth as long as or longer than he has."
>> Paul Errington, A Question of Values, p.153.
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>"The great push of man's numbers," does not include the random visitation of
>man to a habitat.
Prove it. That is just your own opinion, supported by NOTHING.
The author, here, was trying to convey the idea that we
>need to set aside space that development efforts will not be allowed to
>reach.
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>> The Problem
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>The "problem" is that you are taking a good idea out of context and cramming
>it into your idea of utopia.
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><snip rest as your repeated blatherings that are not based on facts>
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I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)
Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of!
http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
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