The Green values of self-reliance, personal and social responsibility, and
the inherent conflict between civil society and corporate welfare found in a
nutshell at the Red Sox's ballpark.

  Nader blasts Red Sox on ballpark plan  Instead, he says, team should fund
Fenway upgrades

  By Meg Vaillancourt, Bosto Globe Staff, 3/26/2000

  Standing in the shadow of the fabled Green Monster - Fenway Park's left
field
  wall - consumer advocate and Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader
  yesterday blasted the Red Sox's plans for a $600 million replacement park.

  A longtime opponent of public subsidies for professional sports teams, Nader
  denounced the team's owners as ''arrogant'' and equated their new ballpark
  plan to the ancient Roman circus.

  ''They both feature gladiators, but this scheme is worse because at least
the
  ancient Romans let in the fans for free,'' Nader said. ''There should be no
  public subsidies for privately owned entertainment corporations. ... I don't
  think the Boston Red Sox want to be known as the Boston Tax Sox.''

  An outspoken critic of Connecticut Governor John Rowland's ill-fated plan to
  build a publicly funded stadium for football's New England Patriots, Nader
  has pressed federal lawmakers to revoke the antitrust exemptions currently
  enjoyed by Major League Baseball and the National Football League.

  Nader struck a class warfare theme, urging the Red Sox to privately renovate
  89-year-old Fenway Park rather than push the state and city to invest in a
  new ballpark.

  ''They should prudently and privately fund the proper renovation of this
  storied Fenway Park,'' he said as a small group of new-park opponents
cheered.

  ''To win a World Series ..., they don't need new skyboxes populated by
  gluttonous financiers freeloading on the backs of hardworking taxpayers of
  this state.''

  In town to attend a Green Party convention in Cambridge yesterday, Nader was
  invited to speak about the Red Sox plan by Citizens Against Stadium
  Subsidies, a newly formed local coalition opposed to the Red Sox project.

  The coalition includes members of the Massachusetts Public Interest Group,
  Save Fenway Park, the Fenway Action Coalition, Citizens for Limited
Taxation,
  Roxbury residents opposed to the team's plan to build satellite parking
  facilities for fans near the Ruggles MBTA Station, and several other groups.

  While Fenway residents are sharply divided on the project, the team has won
  support from businesses and organized labor as well as some neighborhood
  activists.

  However, the team has not outlined how it hopes to finance the project.
  Currently in talks with city and state officials, team officials hope to
  reach a consensus on how much public investment they might request within
the
  next month or two.

  Citing other ballpark projects across the country, sports financing
  specialists estimate that the Red Sox may need up to $250 million in public
  funds to build the project, which the team says it needs to compete with
  opponents who have or are building new ballparks.

  Yesterday, team officials did not criticize Nader. Instead, they repeated
  arguments of ballpark boosters who say the project will generate additional
  tax revenues for the city and state.
Regards,

Wolfsave
It's what we learn after we know it all that really counts.
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l.com/wolfsave/wolfsavehd.html</A>
Sunday, March 26, 2000
6:48:03 AM Pacific Standard Time

Capital Defined
It is the nature of capital to 1) grow or die and 2) concentrate.

How this condition might exist parallel to grassroots democracy remains to be
fully explained.

Green Capital's Goal Defined
The goal of  green capital is to grow itself universally and ecologically in
perpetuity.   Its assumptions are that its growth will diminish environmental
and social problems created by capital's classical dualism, owners vs workers
(classically: bourgeoisie vs. proletariat; modernly: corporate relations vs.
labor).  Its ideological hallmark is that "appropriate technology will save
us."

The Perpetual Motion Machine
Consider the perpetual motion machine as the answer to green capital's
technological quest for ecological sustainability and social justice, since
it represents the alpha and omega of technological achievement.  (Here, the
perpetual motion machine represents appropriate technology and the dream to
create energy output, the machine, without energy input, labor, oil, nukes --
a free lunch.)

Observation
Green capital must control the perpetual motion machine to preserve its own
existence, growth.   It cannot exist as "green capital" so long as the
perpetual motion machine is shared universally.

If green capital 1) preserves its own growth by controlling the perpetual
machine, the classical dualism continues.  If green capital 2) denies the
perpetual motion machine to others for preservation of its own future, the
classical dualism continues.

Query
If green capital must control the perpetual motion machine (appropriate
technology), in what ways does it (green capital) promote grassroots
democracy?

Answers:
1. Green capital may be shared until it dilutes itself to extinction.
2. Green capital mutates the perpetual motion machine.
3. . . . .
Regards,

Wolfsave
It's what we learn after we know it all that really counts.
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l.com/wolfsave/wolfsavehd.html</A>
Monday, March 20, 2000
8:50:36 AM Pacific Standard Time

A trojan virus is making the rounds on exe. (executable) files, and it's
making the rounds from similar or familiar email list names.  I guess some
people were just born to be devious.  So be careful when opening any
executable files.  I caugth two this morning with Norton Anti-virus, the
source of the below information.  (This is not a commercial plug!)

W32.Plage.Worm

Detected as: W32.Plage.Worm
Aliases: I-Worm.W95.Plage.Worm, P2000, Plage2000
Infection Length: 102,400 bytes
Likelihood: Rare
Detected on: Jan 13, 2000
Characteristics: Worm




Description

W32.Plage.Worm is a memory resident worm discovered on Jan 13, 2000. The worm
replies on MAPI32 and propagates by replying to unread email with the
following message body.

I'll try to reply as soon as possible.
Take a look to the attachment and send
me your opinion!
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The attachment has a file size of 102,400 bytes and will have one of the
following filenames: pics.exe, images.exe, joke.exe, PsPGame.exe,
news_doc.exe, hamster.exe, tamagotxi.exe, searchURL.exe, SETUP.EXE, Card.EXE,
billgt.exe, midsong.exe, s3msong.exe, docs.exe, humor.exe, or fun.exe

When the attachment is executed it will display the following dialog box:

World water use to soar to crisis levels: study

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
March 14, 2000
Globe and Mail

The world faces a crisis over fresh water, with burgeoning demand from
growing populations stretching supplies that are already pushed to their
limits, a report by the World Commission on Water says.

The organization, whose sponsors include the United Nations and the World
Bank, predicts that water use will increase 40 per cent over the next 20
years because of demands by industry, agriculture, and urban areas.

At the same time, many sources of water have been degraded by pollution or
overuse. One billion people currently do not have access to safe water
supplies and two billion go without adequate sanitation.

"It is obvious that under current trends the arithmetic of water does not
add up. Already our aquatic ecosystems are severely stressed," says the
report, titled A Water Secure World: Vision for Water, Life, and the
Environment.

It says the predicted increase in water use "would impose intolerable
stresses on the environment, leading not only to loss of biodiversity, but
also to a vicious circle in which the stresses on the ecosystem could no
longer provide the services for plants and for people."

The report says rapid and imaginative institutional and technological
innovations will be needed to avoid such a crisis.

Among other things, it recommends that governments stop subsidizing the
building of water-supply systems. Having to pay the full cost of such
systems, the report says, would promote conservation, stop waste, and
foster new technologies, including those to reuse waste water.

The 33-page report also says polluters should bear the full cost of
cleaning up the damage they cause by dumping effluent.

Although the world is blessed with an abundance of water, the report notes
that almost none of it comes in a form useful to humans. Only 2.5 per cent
of the world's water is not salty; of the fresh water, two-thirds is locked
in icecaps and glaciers.

Of the remaining amount, 20 per cent is in areas too remote for human use,
and of the remainder, three-quarters comes at the wrong time and place in
the form of monsoons and floods.

Given the vagaries of climate and geography, only .08 per cent of the
world's water is readily available to people, the report says. "It is
precious indeed."

The report estimates that to meet growing needs for water, countries must
more than double their investment in infrastructure (such as sewage
treatment and water pipes) to $180-billion (U.S.) a year, with the bulk of
the increase coming from the private sector.

If that amount of money were put into the world's water systems, the report
estimates, the number of people without water and sewage services could be
reduced by about 75 per cent.

Guy LeMoigne, a senior adviser to the commission, which is based in France,
said private-sector investors are eager to put more money into water
infrastructure, but will do so only if they get good returns on their
investment.

"The private sector is very willing to invest, provided, of course, that it
can make a profit," he said.

The report also identifies a number of global water problems, such the
unprecedented use of water from underground stores of water, or aquifers.
The study found that 10 per cent of the world's agriculture depends on the
use of this groundwater.

Excessive exploitation of groundwater, primarily for agriculture, is
lowering water tables in the western United States, Mexico, India, Yemen
and China. About 1,000 tonnes of water are needed to produce one tonne of
wheat and about twice that to grow a tonne of rice.

The report notes that water-diversion schemes for irrigation have had
devastating effects in Central Asia, where the Aral Sea has shrunk to a
fraction of its original size.

In North America, urbanization and agriculture have destroyed half of
Florida's Everglades, while in China, the Yellow River didn't have enough
water to run into the sea for more than 220 days in 1997.

Deforestation, salinization, and contamination by chemicals, fertilizers,
and human waste are serious problems in many parts of the world.

http://www.TheGlobeAndMail.com/gam/International/20000314/UWATEN.html

Nader: I'll Qualify for All States

By SCOTT SONNER
The Associated Press


RENO, Nev. (AP) - Consumer advocate and Green Party presidential candidate
Ralph Nader predicted Monday that he will qualify for the November ballot
in all 50 states.

Nader said that while the Reform Party is somewhat fractured, his party is
``growing quite readily'' as an alternative to the Democratic and
Republican parties - ``which is really one party with two heads wearing
make-up.

``We're going to be on every state's ballot,'' he told about 100 people who
turned out at the University of Nevada, Reno. ``This is going to be a
four-party race in November.''

The progressive Green Party, founded in 1996, shares Thomas Jefferson's and
James Madison's view of government as ``a public check against the excesses
of monied interests,'' Nader said.

The abolitionist, trade union, environmental and consumer movements all
have targeted the same evil - ``excessive concentration of power and
wealth,'' he said.

Nader said too many working Americans have been left behind in the booming
economy.

Nader, who received less than 1 percent of the vote as the Green Party
candidate for president in 1996, said he plans to visit all 50 states.
Nevada is the eighth state he has visited so far.

Meanwhile, Nader said Republican George W. Bush should welcome him as a
participant in presidential debates with Vice President Al Gore, not only
as a strategy to divide liberal votes but also to help mask what he said
were Bush's poor debating skills.

``If you aspire to the presidency, you should be able to speak without a
TelePrompTer and without cue cards for more than 15 seconds,'' Nader said.
Regards,

Wolfsave
Nature is very complex to think about, and possibly more complex than we can
think.  Berry Commoner
Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:05:57 AM Pacific Standard Time
WolfSave

The below comments are have roots in "Radioactive Waste Seeps Toward Columbia
River,Kim Murphy, Times staff writer, 3/12/00"

The cold war's primary casualty turns out to be Mother Earth and her
children.

A nearly forgotten nuclear waste site at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in
Washington seeps tritium in ground water toward the Columbia River, America's
"greatest river of the West.  This waterway irrigates 1 million acres of
prime farmland in two states and nurtures 80% of the fall chinook salmon
harvested in Aleska and British Columbia.  It is the most contaminated plae
in North America, with 80% of the spent nuclear fuel in the Department of
Energy's inventory — 2,100 metric tons in all — stored in a pair of aging
canisters, (LA Times 3/12/00)," some crumbling and corroded.

Estimated time of seepage arrival to the Columbia:  Three years.

This email is forwarded in the interest of preserving the "Copy To" lists.
It is not intended as mindless spam or crass corporate materialism.

<< Where did you study environmental ethics---my degree is from University of
North Texas---the think tank for EE--are you gettng an "environmental" law
degree? >>

It was sort of a hobby in the late 80's, and the journal of Environmental
Ethics has been on my shelf since then, renewing each year, and falling
further behind in reading each hour.  I think it is one of the most important
developments in print of the last century, and I'm serious, considering the
state of the wild, genetic patent law, and loss or personal freedoms to
corporate domination of the legal system.

Also, I'm studying law by distance, correspondence, at  <A
HREF="http://www.british-american.edu/">Law Schools and Law Programs from
British American University - Law School or H</A> .  I'm just starting and
have a long way to go.

My interest is to get through the bar first, and then worry about what comes
next, but public interest and environmental law are the natural directions
for me to go; at my age though, I'll have to work quick if I'm going to have
any time to help Mother Earth and all of her children.  I recommend others
with an interest in environmental ethics study law for the planet.  This is
actually my purpose in life today, short of my wife and dogs.  Nader has laid
the groundwork and shown the way, at least in terms of liberal reforms, which
should be of value for environmental ethics applied to the courtroom and
preservation/conservation of species-populations and their habitats in the
wild.
Regards,

Wolfsave
Who speaks for biodiversity?
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here to see my Green Politics Page</A>
Sunday, March 05, 2000
1:21:22 PM Pacific Standard Time

<<" Ten Reasons for Choosing a Simpler Life-Style
             ---------------------------------------------
                           by J�rgen Lissner
                        jorgen.lissner@...
                reproduced with the author's permission


Today's global realities call for comfortable Christians to review
their life-style.  Guidelines for a simpler style of life cannot be
laid down in universal rules; they must be developed by individuals
and communities according to their own imagination and situation.  A
simpler life-style is not a panacea.  It may be embarked upon for the
wrong reasons, e.g., out of guilt, as a substitute for political
action, or in a quest for moral purity.  But it can also be meaningful
and significant in some or all of the following ways:

   1. As an act of faith performed for the sake of personal
      integrity and as an expression of a personal commitment to a
      more equitable distribution of the world's resources.

   2. As an act of self defense against the mind and body
      polluting effects of overconsumption.

   3. As an act of withdrawal from the achievement-neurosis of our
      high-pressure, materialistic societies.

   4. As an act of our solidarity with the majority of humankind,
      which has no choice about life-style.

   5. As an act of sharing with others what has been given to us,
      or of returning what was usurped by us through unjust social
      and economic structures.

   6. As an act of celebration of the riches found in creativity,
      spirituality, and community with others, rather than in
      mindless materialism.

   7. As an act of provocation (ostentatious underconsumption) to
      arouse curiosity leading to dialogue with others about
      affluence, alienation, poverty, and social injustice.

   8. As an act of anticipation of the era when the self-confidence
      and assertiveness of the underprivileged forces new power
      relationships and new patterns of resource allocation upon
      us.

   9. As an act of advocacy of legislative changes in present
      patterns of production and consumption, in the direction of
      a new economic order.

  10. As an exercise of purchasing power to redirect production
      away from the satisfaction of artificially created wants,
      toward the supplying of goods and services that meet genuine
      social needs.

The adoption of a simpler life-style is meaningful and justifiable for
any or all of the above reasons alone, regardless of whether it
benefits the underprivileged.  Demands for "proof of effectiveness" in
helping the poor simply bear witness to the myth that "they the poor"
are the problem and "we the rich" have the solution.>>
Regards,

Wolfsave
Who speaks for biodiversity?
<A HREF="http://hometown.aol.com/greenpolitics/myhomepage/index.html">Tap
here to see my Green Politics Page</A>
Sunday, March 05, 2000
7:19:00 AM Pacific Standard Time

Just thought that I would drop a line to say I'm here.

I generaly just lurk and read, but this group is small enough to
where I could feel comfortable participating.

Even when I hit my busy season (I am a chef that caters), know that I
do believe our planet (earth) should be nurtured, protected and
loved.  Just like we would our own offspring.

We are the Earths offspring.

RJWeber
NightHeron/Harrier
Berkeley

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GEORGE BUSH'S ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR: "AUCTION OFF ALL
  FEDERAL LANDS INCLUDING NATIONAL PARKS"
  Terry L. Anderson, environmental advisor to George W. Bush Jr.,
has proposed to auction off all 600 million acres of federal public
lands in the U.S. over the next 20-40 years. This not only includes every
National Forest, National Wildlife Refuge, and BLM District, it also
includes every National Park and Monument. Under his proposal, non-profit
environmental groups could bid on the free market against the
likes of Exxon to obtain the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or against

  Weyerhaeuser to obtain Yellowstone National Park, or against
Phelps Dodge to obtain Grand Canyon National Park. Any bets on how the
bidding will go?

  Anderson is closely associated with several conservative think
tanks pushing for the privatization and/or commercialization of
public lands. He is the director of the Political Economy Research Center, a
  enior fellow at the Hoover Institution. PERC's website links
to the Thoreau Institute which has proposed, among other nonsense, to
privatize ownership of endangered species. Anderson's proposal
was published by the CATO institute and can be viewed at
  <http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-363es.html>

  Anderson freely admits that his corporate take-over agenda
would be wildly unpopular with the American public. In an interview
ith the National Journal (10-23-99) he said that Bush is watching the
polls and will not likely announce any radical public land agendas
during the campaign. But after????

Ralph Nader Announces US Green Party Candidacy

Washington, Feb. 21 <A HREF="aol://4344:30.bloombrg.389091.602536905">(Bloombe
rg)</A> -- Calling for a return to the activism of the 1960s and 1970s,
consumer advocate Ralph Nader announced his candidacy for the U.S. Green
Party's presidential nomination.

Nader won 684,000 votes in 36 states as the Green Party's presidential
nominee in 1996. He said he would be on 45 state ballots this year and aimed
to win 5 percent of the vote to make the party eligible for millions of
dollars in matching campaign funds for future races. The U.S. Reform Party
will get more than $12 million in matching campaign funds this year because
of Ross Perot's 8 percent showing in the 1996 presidential race.

Nader, founder of the consumer rights group Public Citizen, criticized what
he said was corporate domination of the American political process and
earned of a widening ``democracy gap'' threatening political life in the
United
States.

``The democracy gap in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of
powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote or listlessly vote for the
`least-worst' (candidate) every four years,'' said Nader, who first gained
national prominence in 1965 when he published ``Unsafe at Any Speed,'' an
analysis of automaker safety standards that led to changes in consumer
protection laws. ``Then they wonder why, after another cycle, the
east-worse keeps getting worse.''

The Green Party, which claims 100,000 registered members in the U.S., backs
environmental causes, including the protection of endangered species and
opposition to the use of hormones and antibiotics in livestock.

Nader faces three rivals -- Jello Biafra, lead singer for a disbanded punk
rock group called the Dead Kennedys; self-described ``hippie priest''
Stephen Gaskin; and Bard College professor Joel Kovel -- for the Green Party
presidential nomination at the party's June convention in Denver. Nader said
he fully expected to become the party's standard-bearer.

Asked for his assessment of the current top presidential candidates, Nader
gave higher marks to Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain
of Arizona than to his rival, Governor George W. Bush of Texas, for McCain's
positions on auto safety, the tobacco lobby and campaign finance reform.

Former Senator Bill Bradley is a much more attractive candidate for the
Democratic nomination than Vice President Al Gore, said Nader. ``Al Gore has
set an all-time record for betraying his own positions,'' said Nader.

Feb/21/2000   15:06

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
             FEBRUARY 21, 2000
             9:34 AM
            CONTACT:  National Office of the Association of State Green
Parties
             Tom Sevigny, Co-Chair 303-554-1575 / 860-693-8344



       Ralph Nader Announces Campaign For President
       Green Party Bid Raises Ante in 2000 Campaign

       WASHINGTON - February 21 - Announcing his bid today for the Green
Party nomination for President, Ralph Nader promised to campaign actively
and "send a message across the country."

       In a statement at a news conference at the Madison Hotel, a few blocks
from the White House, Nader, one of the most respected political figures in
America, stated that he will campaign on "fundamental issues -- democracy,
concentrated corporate power and the excessive disparities of wealth."
Invoking the message of last year's Seattle demonstrations against the WTO,
Nader introduced an extensive blue-green agenda that pointed to core labor
standards and environmental safeguards as central issues in his campaign.

       "In 1996 I stood for election, this year I'm running," Nader said.
"The American people deserve a debate on corporate globalization and its
damage to democracy."

       Addressing concerns regarding Nader's potential impact in November,
Nader's advisors claim that his campaign will help turn out the vote and
could assist the Democrats in taking back Congress. In the 1996 election,
more potential voters didn't vote than did. A serious Nader campaign could
bring independent and new voters to the polls, energizing the
18-to-30-year-old voters and others who have traditionally not turned out to
vote. But there are those in the Democratic Party who do not relish the
prospect of having to debate Nader or deal with the issues raised by his
progressive-populist campaign.

       Pointing out the impact of "big money, big influence" politics on
Washington, Nader distributed a fifteen page statement on how to revitalize
democracy. Nader said that "concentrated corporate power is on a collision
course with democracy".

       In 1996, in the Green Party's first presidential campaign, Nader
received nearly 700,000 votes and finished in fourth place, although
limiting his campaign spending to under $5000. In 2000, the Nader campaign
intends to raise $5 million dollars.

       On March 7th in California, initial polls have indicated that Nader
could receive a significant block of votes in the state's open primary.

       A Connecticut native, Nader is a Harvard-trained lawyer who has a four
decade record in consumer and public interest law and activism.

       The Green Party is holding its national Nominating Convention in
Denver at the Renaissance Hotel, June 24-25. One of approximately 80 Green
parties internationally, the US Green Party platform focuses on
environmental protection, economic justice, grassroots democracy and
nonviolence.

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SCRAPING THE SEABED RAW TRAWLING NETS RIP UP UNDERSEA HABITAT
(condensed)

  >ABCNEWS.com, 12/30/99

By Erica B. Goldman Special to ABCNEWS.com

In a forest without trees, animals and plants that depend on shade and
the nooks and crannies that trees provide would be out of luck. An ocean
floor without shelter — boulders, cobbles, sand ripples, shells, and
other natural litter — likewise leaves innumerable sea creatures with no
place to hide, forage or breed. For ocean biologists, that’s not a
hypothetical situation. Fishing trawlers have become the bulldozers of
the ocean deep, their huge nets toppling and disrupting the undersea
landscape.

Large-Scale Destruction

Each year, fishing boats around the world trawl an area twice as large
as the United States, leveling intricate structures as they gather
bottom-dwelling fish, scallops and shrimp. A scallop dredge, for
instance, consists of a 15-foot-wide steel frame dragging a large chain
bag through the seabed. One dredge weighs more than a ton — empty — and
most boats tow two at a time. Destroying critical habitat threatens the
creatures we eat and those we don’t — worms, snails, anemones,
unappetizing fish and others. Just about anything might come up in the
net: sea stars, sea turtles, chunks of a coral reef.

To make matters worse, a third of all animals that boats haul up — 25
billion animals is a conservative estimate — are commercially worthless.
That translates into 29.7 million tons of sea life a year that are
thrown out as garbage, according to the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization.

In June, the National Marine Fisheries Service recommended adding six
species of commercially valuable ground fish (or bottom-dwellers), as
well as the barndoor skate, an unlucky, uncommercial “bycatch” species,
for protection under the Endangered Species Act. The barndoor skate
population has already shrunk by 90 to 99 percent since the late 1950s.
What can be done to protect other marine species before they become
endangered?

Gimme Shelter

In the past two decades, countries around the world, notably New
Zealand, Australia and Canada, have set up 4,500 marine protected areas.
Currently, the United States has 12 national marine sanctuaries plus
other protected areas. While this seems impressive, it doesn’t help the
fish. Only a tiny fraction of these protected areas ban fishing,
protecting the areas only from such activities as mining and ocean
dumping. To win fishing industry support, many were created with
explicit agreements to impose few limits on fishing. And these 4,500
marine protected areas still account for less than 1 percent of the
world’s oceans. In October, Congressman Joel Hefley (R-Colo.) introduced
the Seabed Protection Act, which would ban bottom trawling in 16 U.S.
coastal areas areas until the National Fisheries Service could determine
the impact of trawling. This is the first legislation introduced to
tackle trawling damage.

Yes to No-Take

While the Seabed Protection Act might be an important first step, many
scientists and conservationists believe an essential next step is
establishing long-term, if not permanent, “no-take” reserves where
fishing is completely banned. “The use of no-take protected areas is a
precautionary approach,” says Peter Auster, science director of the
National Undersea Research Center at the University of Connecticut. “We
are still discovering species on a daily basis and we exploit
populations of animals to very high levels without consideration of the
effects on the rest of the system. No-take protected areas will serve as
a hedge against bad management strategies outside those protected
areas.”

Bye, Bye, Fish

Fishermen are naturally skeptical of how no-take reserves will affect
their livelihood, but many acknowledge the negative impacts of bottom
trawling. “On the edge of Georges Bank, there was a hump about 30 feet
high. I used to fish there for cod fish. Now it is dragged level as a
table,” said one Canadian fisherman in a 1998 publication about their
views, Marine Benthic Seascapes: Fishermen’s Perspectives. Another
noted, “With the gear they got today, they can drag anywhere. There is
not a chance that everywhere won’t be affected.”

A global network of no-take marine protected areas remains a long way
off and faces a gauntlet of political and scientific obstacles. But,
some motivation is there. At a meeting last year, during the U.N.
International Year of the Ocean, 1,600 scientists called for expanding
the marine protected areas to 20 percent by 2020. About 70 percent of
the world’s major fisheries are either fully exploited, depleted or
recovering from depletion. The future relies on looking ahead, and
keeping in mind the unseen devastation.

Erica B. Goldman is earning her doctorate in zoology at the University
of Washington and is a free-lance writer.

Copyright ©1999 ABC News Internet Ventures.

Not to diminish the birthday of that great pacifist, the following comments
from a reader to the LA Times' (Dec. 23) Letters to the Times deserves
sharing, because it so enlightens the metaphysical vagaries our presidential
contender hoisted before the public, forever engraving his mighty thoughts
into  the national consciousness and for sure our sense of jurisprudence.  To
wit:

"With glistening zeal and virtue, and to the sound of thunderous applause,
Bush extolled during the recent debate his "fave rave" writer/philosopher,
Christ.

Considering he has now personally authorized the cold execution of 34 Texas
inmates this year alone (Dec. 15), perhaps someone should ask him which parts
of the philosophy he doesn't understand?"
John R. Harris, Hunington Beach, CA
Regards,

Wolfsave
Ironic, isn't it -- Marx and Engels getting their "humanized" planet anyway,
only commodified for profit.
Saturday, December 25, 1999
4:54:45 PM Pacific Standard Time

Tonight represents the moon's longest stay in our sky, winter solstice.  Have
a nice solstice.  Be sure to reflect for Mother Earth and her children's
endangeredfuture on our increasingly humanized, ecologically challenged
planet.
Regards,

Ed Evans
Ironic, isn't it?  How Marx and Engels are getting their "humanized" planet
anyway, but commodified rather than "rationalized."

"The age of heroes is dead," we hear and read daily.  Try this for a look at
the "heroic," and where could anyone find a fatal flaw in this quest for
meaning the in post-modern world?

  By Michelle Locke
                                                 ASSOCIATED PRESS

                     STAFFORD, Calif. - Two years ago, a 23-year-old
preacher's daughter climbed 180 feet into the branches of an ancient redwood,
determined to save it from a woodsman's chain saw.

                     Since then, Julia Hill, known to her friends as Julia
Butterfly, has changed her life. She also has tried to change the way people
look at
California's old-growth forests through an Internet campaign and interviews
with reporters around the world.
                     One more thing may soon change: She may be coming
down from the tree she calls Luna.
                     "My feet will not touch the ground until there is a
signature on paper saying that they've   protected the area but . . . I'm
cautiously
hopeful," she said last week.
                     It is not clear when - or if - Hill's treetop vigil
will end. In the past, she and the Pacific Lumber Co., owners of the property
where Luna stands, have been close to a resolution only to have the deal
stall.

                     Neither side will discuss specifics, but the proposed
agreement reportedly would have Hill and her supporters pay $50,000 to the
company in
return for a logging ban at the tree-sitting site. The money would then be
donated
to Humboldt State University for forestry research. Pacific Lumber also wants
signed
statements from Hill that the company hopes will discourage copycats.

                     "We want her to be safe, but we are not going to
agree to anything that encourages  tree-sitting, promotes tree-sitting,
allows for the
commercialization of tree-sitting or is unfair to our employees," said
company spokesman Josh Reiss.

                     In March, Pacific Lumber and federal and state
governments signed a $480 million deal to purchase an old-growth grove in the
nearby Headwaters Forest and turn it into a public preserve.
                     Hill stayed put, disappointed that the deal did not go
far enough to protect the forest andconcerned that Luna was not in the
protected area.
                     What she has missed most is the earth beneath her feet.
                     "I can't imagine how incredible and magical it's
going to feel just to be able to touch the solid earth again," she said.

                     The forest that Hill calls home soars above the mists,
thousands of dark green spires brushing against a pale gray sky. To the west,
the
Pacific hugs the sandy shoulders of the remote Lost Coast, 280 miles north of
San Francisco.

                     Also visible is the red-brown scar of a mudslide that
destroyed seven homes in the small community of Stafford. Activists blame the
slide on
clear-cut logging. The company says it was a natural occurrence.

                     At Luna's base, the only sound is the rushing murmur
of the wind. About 15 feet across and more than 18 stories high, the tree is
a vast,
brown stretch of bark, with one side blackened - probably by fire.

                     Suddenly, the silence is broken as a supporter who
goes by the name of Spruce lets out an eerie call, a signal that visitors
have arrived.

                     Hill yodels back, then lowers a battered black bag
containing a walkie-talkie over which she cheerily announces, "My phone's
ringing. I'm
going to grab it real quick and be right with you."

                     Hill does not have a lot of the comforts of home on her
6-by-8-foot platform. She cooks  vegan meals - those with no animal products
- on a
propane stove, uses a bucket for a  bathroom, takes sponge baths and is "never
completely warm" on wintry days.

                     But she has a cellular phone to keep in touch with
the outside world; supporters bring in batteries and food and take out her
replies to the 300 or so people who write every week.

                     In spare moments she reads, writes and listens to a
community radio station.
                     For exercise, she climbs the tree and, failing that,
does sit-ups and push-ups. Dealing with wild winter storms and the dank,
foggy cold takes"laughter, love, prayer - and layers of clothing."

                     "Right now, I'm wearing three pants, three shirts, two
jackets, two scarfs, a hat and gloves," she said on a day when temperatures
hovered
in the 40s.

                     She has been interviewed scores of times. She has been
visited by actor Woody Harrelson and singers Bonnie Raitt and Joan Baez.
And, she has written a book, The Legacy of Luna, due out in April.

                     "I laugh hysterically every time someone thinks I'm bored
or lonely, because I am busier than I have ever been in my entire life," she
said.

                     Before she was a tree-sitter, Hill was learning the
restaurant business in Fayetteville, Ark. That life ended with a near-fatal
car wreck that sent her on a pilgrimage west to the woods.

                     She's not sure what she might do next, but expects
it will have something to do with protecting the environment.

                     "I climbed up into this tree and in the eyes of the
world, I was a nobody," she said.  "Without my meaning to, I've become this
figurehead, this spokesperson and that's opened up a lot of doors and
possibilities."
Regards,

Wolfsave
May wolves run at your side and not at your heels.
4:03:19 PM Pacific Standard Time
4:03:19 PM Pacific Standard Time

This is the EarthSave Discussion and Information Group (EDIG)

150 states vow stronger anti-desertification drive
By Shasta Darlington

   SAO PAULO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - More than 150 countries agreed on Saturday
to step up a U.N.-led effort to protect fertile land from encroaching
deserts, closing a two-week Brazilian conference on the global
environmental crisis.

Deforestation, climate change, huge population growth, and excessive
farming and grazing are largely blamed for turning 58,000 square miles
(150,000 sq. km) -- an area larger than New York state -- to dust each
year.

The damage costs governments more than $4 billion annually and affects
more than 1 billion people, many of whom have been forced to migrate to
cities and other countries in search of work and food.

Seven years after countries joined the first drive against
desertification at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, officials
gathered in Brazil's northeastern city of Recife to assess local measures
and talk about global implementation.

The Recife Initiative signed on Saturday aims to stem the mounting
ecological and social catastrophes that were most thoroughly detailed by
acutely affected African nations.

But spats between advanced economies and the developing world over who
should foot the bill ultimately dashed hopes of major budged increases
for the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification.

BUDGET INCREASE FALLS SHORT

The convention hoped to boost its two-year operating budget to $19.6
million from just $6.1 million this year. Member nations, however, only
agreed on an operating budget of $13.7 million.

Affected countries and environmental groups lashed out at developed
nations, claiming they have not followed through with sorely needed funds
to prevent desertification despite speedy progress on detailed proposals
and national action programmes.

``It's simple -- we do all the work they ask of us and then they refuse
to pay,'' said one Latin American delegate.

Developed countries, however, said that they spent billions of dollars a
year on programmes to fight land degradation, erosion and poverty and
that affected countries needed to ensure that some of these funds were
earmarked for the drive against desertification.

``We are providing a lot of money through different channels,''
Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven, the head of Germany's Environment Division, told
Reuters during the week. ``We can't tell developed countries how to
prioritize it.''

The convention's executive secretary, Hama Arba Diallo, agreed that
affected nations must ``challenge desertification trends.'' But he also
endorsed their need for greater international support.

COMMITMENT, IMPLEMENTATION URGED

``The implementation of decisions just adopted will require the sustained
commitments by all actors concerned and a more decisive mobilisation by
the international community,'' Diallo said in a statement on Saturday.

``We will not be able to guarantee a minimum of success in the future if
there is no continuity in the support provided to the affected
countries.''

The Recife Initiative calls for members begin talks to detail commitments
and implement anti-degradation efforts. It suggests that members focus on
specific areas and sectors proposed in African nations' action plans.

The initiative also proposes that the anti-desertification convention be
integrated into developing countries' mainstream national development
plans to ensure that the effort benefits from bilateral funding projects.

And finally, in response to repeated criticism during the conference that
independent organisations had been ignored, the initiative calls on
environmental and other nongovernmental groups to take part in
implementation.

Some 900 government delegates and more than 200 representatives of the
United Nations and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organisations
attended the conference. Over 50 ministers and deputy ministers addressed
delegates, and 23 countries issued declarations calling for strong and
effective actions against dry-land degradation.

The next conference will be held in Bonn, the convention's headquarters,
from Oct. 16 to 27, 2000.

14:46 11-27-99

Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.  All rights reserved.

<A HREF="aol://4344:3167.worldpop.21059248.622468767"> World Population
Reaches 6 Billion</A>
World Population Reaches 6 Billion

By MATT CRENSON
.c The Associated Press

NEW YORK (Oct. 10) - A majority of the 370,000 children born this Tuesday
will be poor. Half will be Asian. And in theory, one will be the planet's 6
billionth person.

Most experts greet this milestone with anxiety. In just 12 years, they note,
humans have increased their number by 1 billion. During the 20th century, the
world's population has tripled. And by 2100, ecologist David Pimentel of
Cornell University warned in a recent paper, ''12 billion miserable humans
will suffer a difficult life on Earth.''

Advocates for population control call it ''Y6B.'' They warn that if humanity
can't clamp a lid on the population explosion it will spell serious trouble -
war, famine, economic collapse.

But not everybody agrees that Oct. 12 is a day for doom and gloom. Economist
Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington,
D.C., considers it an occasion for celebration.

''This is an incredible thing that we have 6 billion people,'' he says.
''It's a real tribute to human ingenuity and our ability to innovate.''

Moore was a student of economist Julian Simon, who died last year at the age
of 65. Simon criticized warnings about population growth, arguing that
technological innovation would progress fast enough to support the human
race. To an extent, that is what has happened this century.

''A lot of these prophecies of doom have really proven to be false,'' Moore
says.

Even the United Nations, a leading advocate for population control, has found
reason for encouragement in recent population growth, because the boom is
proof of increased agricultural production, decreased infant mortality and
prolonged life expectancy.

But the ''Green Revolution'' that increased food production so dramatically
in the 1960s and 1970s appears to have reached its limit. Total agricultural
yields have leveled off and per capita food production has actually been
falling since 1983, Pimentel notes in the current issue of ''Environment,
Development, and Sustainability.'' And there is little chance that
genetically modified crops and other biotechnology will reinvigorate
agricultural production.

''We can hope, but actually if you look, biotechnology's been with us for the
last 20 years,'' Pimentel says. ''To state it will turn the food situation
around, the evidence is not there.''

Pimentel argues that the optimal world population in the year 2100 is 2
billion. To reach that population level, people would have to reduce their
fertility from the current level of 2.7 births per woman to 1.5, a highly
unrealistic prospect. But if they did, he says, those 2 billion people could
enjoy a standard of living comparable to that of the average European today.

An international agreement reached five years ago in Cairo pledges all
nations to cooperate in trying to limit population growth by providing family
planning services throughout the developing world. The United Nations credits
similar efforts with decreasing the fertility rate in those countries from
six births per woman in 1950 down to about three today.

''We can say with some pride that fertility rates have fallen sharply,'' says
William Ryan, editor of the annual United Nations State of World Population
Report. ''Of course a lot depends on choices and actions that governments
make, particularly over the next couple of decades.''

Developed countries, especially the United States, have been accused of
failing to meet the commitments they made in Cairo. Developed countries
contribute about $2 billion a year to population control, less than half the
amount they signed up for in Cairo.

''Not providing these resources will guarantee that we can't make the
progress we would otherwise make,'' Ryan says.

It is his agency, the United Nations Population Fund, that declared Tuesday
the ''day of 6 billion,'' the official date that the world population
surpasses that figure. But population statistics being what they are, nobody
knows for certain which day the clock will turn over. U.S. Census Bureau
figures put the date nearly three months ago, on July 19.

No matter. Whether the globe's population has already passed 6 billion or
not, at the close of the 20th century there are really two demographic
worlds. One is poor, young and growing. In countries like Uganda and Niger,
the median age is 15 and the growth rate is fast enough to double the
population in 23 years.

The other demographic world is wealthy, old and shrinking. The median age in
Italy and Japan is 40. And the population growth in those countries has
fallen to zero or below.

''Europe is a demographic catastrophe,'' says Moore, of the Cato Institute.
''If you take that trend out 500 years you're going to have eight Italians
and three Irish on the face of the Earth.''

Closer to the present, the United Nations projects that in 2050 a quarter of
the developed world will be older than 65. That is a higher proportion of
retirement-age people than Florida has today.

''Politics will change. Environment will change,'' says Joseph Chamie,
director of the United Nations Population Division. ''Automobiles,
consumption, clothing, living arrangements.''

As one world grows old, the other will grow up - and have more children.
There are about 1 billion teenagers living today, mostly in the Third World.
Even though fertility rates are expected to keep falling, the simple fact
that so many people will reach adulthood in the coming decades will boost
population by another several billion.

''Even if all those couples had only two children, population would continue
to grow for another 40 years or so,'' Ryan says.

At the same time, that growing population faces enormous obstacles. In some
parts of Africa, one adult in four is HIV positive. Worldwide, 8 percent of
the population lives in a place without enough water. By 2050, a quarter of
the world will have less water than it needs.

''Some experts believe the wars in the Middle East in the 21st century will
be over access to drinking water,'' says Brian Dixon, director of government
relations for Zero Population Growth, a Washington, D.C., advocacy group.

Global warming and other environmental factors may also cause problems. If
current estimates are correct, sea level will rise as much as 3 feet over the
next century, displacing 72 million people in China and 71 million in
Bangladesh.

It would seem almost too much to handle - the disease, the limited resources,
the environmental threats - but even the man who would like to see a world
population one-third its present size is hopeful.

''Obviously we can't make land and we can't make water, but I think we can
turn things around,'' says Pimentel. ''I have great faith in human nature.''

  AP-ES-10-04-99 1503EDT

Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news
report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed
without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active
hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.

Biodiversity:   We are losing plant and animal species at a rate not seen
since
the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.  Biologists project that within
the
next 25 years one of every five species will die out.

Forests:         We are eliminating our forests.  The United Nations reports
that since 1970 the world's forests have shrunk from 11.4 square kilometers
per
1,000 people to 7.3 square kilometers per 1,000 people. The world's tropical
forests have lost somewhere between one-fifth and one-third  of their original
size.
From the Sierra Club

Here's a nice page for resources:

  <A HREF="http://www.peak.org/~mageet/tkm/ecolenv.htm">The Need to Know
Library - Ecology and Environment Links</A>

bruce_babbit email also
at
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/ecobotics it is all there
hit it man its not too late

In a message dated 10/5/99 6:49:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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>
>  Any of you people out in Origan?

No, Southern California, here.

Any of you people out in Origan?

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Tap the above to go to the source for global CO2 gas reporting.
I would still like to see corroborating evidence.  The graph shows a great
increase, quadrupled, in any case.  I would think that this makes moot issues
of "national defense" and "national security," even laughable.
Here's a graph I located with the help of another's email:

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I am sorry to bother you all with this, but I'm about to split!  I just heard
(again in 24 hours) that the earth's CO2 level has quadrupled since the
1950's.  This information came from the United Nations, via KPFK; I find it
hard to believe.  Is there another source for this information that anyone
may know about?

Apparently, Earth's human population has just topped 6 billion, incidentally;
the global warming has its source in the industrialized (rich) nations.

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