At Sun, 14 Mar 1999 23:17:43 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Joe,
>
>Do we really have these rights?
>At what cost?
>
>> We have the right to live without interference from others,
>
>Not you, this is too absolute. Grab a gun and defend material. The majority of humans
>who say these things tend to war against other humans, species, wolf, bear, tiger,
>dense forest, anything that interferes to maintain this right.
>
>> and the responsibility not to interfere in other peoples' lives.
>
>Positive, but limiting, from this ecofem's pov, as generalizations go.
>
>Is it too far a stretch to include top soil in the responsibility equation? No need
>to fight or defend, I have an ingrained perception of our species (in it's western
>attire) as being far less credible and far more destructive a life form on this
>planet than the cockroach.
>
>/donna
You've inspired a brainstorm. There's a huge erosion problem in central america; the
recent hurricanes have washed much of the topsoil from their farmland. At the same
time, we have a landfill problem here. Much of our landfills are filled with trimmed
plant material. What if we mulch the grass and limbs, compost it, barge it to central
america and use it to replace their ravaged topsoil? It would slow our landfill
filling at the same time that it would provide them with needed topsoil with which to
replenish their stripped farmland. It wouldn't be garbage dumping; it would help
them. At first glance it seems like an elegant win-win recycling situation to me.
Whaddaya think?
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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