ever feel like this is all one weird dream, cuz this can't be happening?

[Guest guest]

Allan Fitzsimmons, the man chosen by the Bush administration to head

its wildfire prevention program, does not believe in ecosystems and

says the extinction of threatened and endangered species would not be

a crisis. Fitzsimmons was tasked last week with reducing fire danger

on Interior Department lands through the newly formed Healthy Forests

Initiative, but environmentalists say the appointment confirms their

fears that the initiative is just a smokescreen for expanding logging

on public lands. President Bush wants logging companies to thin

forests, theoretically to reduce fire danger, in exchange for the

right to harvest commercially valuable trees. Under the White House

plan, forest protections would be suspended and it would be harder

for environmentalists to sue to block thinning. Fitzsimmons, a

free-market policy analyst aligned with libertarian and conservative

think tanks, has written papers calling ecosystems human constructs

and criticizing those who try to " accommodate nonexistent ecosystem

needs. "

 

straight to the source: Seattle Times, Gannett News Service, Faith

Bremner, 31 Aug 2002

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I cannot understand people who think like that.

 

Jo

 

 

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*sigh* i wish it was then I could just close me eyes and make it all go away nikki - EBbrewpunx Wednesday, September 04, 2002 4:07 PM ESI-List; eco_vegans ; TFHB ; Cc: jdh54; nikkimack; michele ever feel like this is all one weird dream, cuz this can't be happening? Allan Fitzsimmons, the man chosen by the Bush administration to head its wildfire prevention program, does not believe in ecosystems and says the extinction of threatened and endangered species would not be a crisis. Fitzsimmons was tasked last week with reducing fire danger on Interior Department lands through the newly formed Healthy Forests Initiative, but environmentalists say the appointment confirms their fears that the initiative is just a smokescreen for expanding logging on public lands. President Bush wants logging companies to thin forests, theoretically to reduce fire danger, in exchange for the right to harvest commercially valuable trees. Under the White House plan, forest protections would be suspended and it would be harder for environmentalists to sue to block thinning. Fitzsimmons, a free-market policy analyst aligned with libertarian and conservative think tanks, has written papers calling ecosystems human constructs and criticizing those who try to "accommodate nonexistent ecosystem needs."straight to the source: Seattle Times, Gannett News Service, Faith Bremner, 31 Aug 2002< TITLE="http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=434>" TARGET="_blank">http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=434>