Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 10:35:00
From: Helga Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New Green Web Bulletin Available
New Green Web Bulletin Available
A new Green Web Bulletin (#66) "Industrial Forestry and a Critique of
Natural Resource Management", is now available to activists, by contacting
the Green Web. It is about 4,500 words (28 kb) long. It is based on a
lecture on forestry by David Orton, to students at Mount Allison
University in New Brunswick, Canada, in early November 1998, for a course
called "Natural Resource Management".
The lecture, given from a left biocentric deep ecology perspective, used
philosophical and practical examples, situated in a Maritimes and larger
context. It - covered a critique of "resourcism" - looking at nature as an
object to commodify for human and corporate use, using the work of John
Livingston; - described forestry conflicts like Nova Nada, the Christmas
Mountains and Clayoquot Sound, as concerning clashes of irreconcileable
values and described those values, also outlining the role for the
environmentally conscious; - discussed the human-centered language of
industrial capitalist forestry and illustrated, using the work of Calvin
Martin, the narrowing of human discourse in regards to relating to nature
as we have socially evolved; - critically assessed Elizabeth May's recent
forestry book _At The Cutting Edge_; - and concluded by describing how the
industrial forestry situation is getting worse and why, and about the need
to get involved.
Helga Hoffmann, for the Green Web
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