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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ Hello list members: We have just put a new Green Web Bulletin (#76) on our web site and updated the site. This forestry bulletin, "Nova Scotia Forestry and Anti-Environmentalism", is a critical review essay of the book, _Against the Grain: Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia_, by L. Anders Sandberg and Peter Clancy. This is an updated version of an earlier article and can be seen at http://home.ca.inter.net/~greenweb/BR_NS_Forestry.html The updated version responds to some changes in focus a reviewer for the journal _Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review_ asked for, as well as further developments in forestry battles in Nova Scotia since the original article was written. We have now also put a link to the web page of the Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners' and Operators' Association on our web site because of their involvement in alternative forestry methods - "low impact" or Acadian "restoration" forestry. Below is the concluding paragraph from the Introduction of my essay. Best and for the Earth, David For increasing numbers of rural residents, the impact of industrial capitalist forestry makes quite clear the link between ecosystem destruction and pulp mill pollution, and a declining personal quality of life. Industrial profits, relatively high wages for pulp mill workers and some forestry workers, and increasing consumption of industrial consumer goods by all of us, have an ecosystem price tag. Or perhaps more theoretically, the relationship between ecocentrism and anthropocentrism becomes increasingly clear: industrial forestry can mean 24-hour logging activity in one's neighbourhood; increased activity by ATVs through clearcut and logging road access; blowdowns in forests adjacent to clearcuts; spraying drift from herbicides and insecticides; marine and air pollution in the vicinity of pulp mills; visual pollution; increased background noise as trees come down which formerly muffled road noise and other 'civilizational' impacts, etc. Industrial forestry becomes an important environmental educator. It also expands political consciousness, as we see how a political elite secretly decides that a forest industry is 'needed', then hands over public lands to this industry on long term leases, along with hydro and tax concessions, low stumpage rates, etc. All government services dedicated ostensibly towards forestry are programmed to serve pulp and paper mill interests - regardless of whether such services, e.g. forest spraying, conflict with the long-term social interests of the citizenry, or the basic ecological interests of the living forests, with all their non-human animal and plant inhabitants. ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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