Thursday, February 23, 2006
Learn from History
Our admired colleague at Orcinus has a feature story in the current issue of Seattle Weekly:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0608/whales.php
As Dave pointed out in another recent post on what's killing Orcas, whenever there is a challenge to the industrial way of life that is causing all species to be endangered--whether that challenge is from the indigenous economic model, or from the environmentalist perspective--the two things we can always count on is abundant hyperbole from politicians and very predictable behavior from the cultural warriors like the Building Industry Association.
Dave's earlier post illustrates it is possible to learn from history--especially the ESA-related Growth Management Act battles of a decade ago. Whether or not a rational discussion can ever take place amongst the decibels generated by right-wing transmitters as he called them--not to mention the destabilizing covert operations of trade and industry groups--though, is another question altogether.
http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0608/whales.php
As Dave pointed out in another recent post on what's killing Orcas, whenever there is a challenge to the industrial way of life that is causing all species to be endangered--whether that challenge is from the indigenous economic model, or from the environmentalist perspective--the two things we can always count on is abundant hyperbole from politicians and very predictable behavior from the cultural warriors like the Building Industry Association.
Dave's earlier post illustrates it is possible to learn from history--especially the ESA-related Growth Management Act battles of a decade ago. Whether or not a rational discussion can ever take place amongst the decibels generated by right-wing transmitters as he called them--not to mention the destabilizing covert operations of trade and industry groups--though, is another question altogether.
