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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 NB, 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 greenweb@fox.nstn.ca
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