DEFORESTATION…THE ROAD TO HELL….DEFORESTATION

Well, it ain’t going by way of Canada as more than half of Canada’s vast northern forest, about one million square miles in all, will be exempt from logging and other industrial development under an agreement announced earlier this week by a coalition of native tribes, environmentalists and businesses.

The accord, if adopted by the national and local governments, is aimed at protecting a largely pristine evergreen expanse that has large populations of bears, wolves, caribou and other species along with hundreds of native communities. This truly is one of the world’s remaining large ecosystems that remains ecologically intact.

The Boreal Forest, as it is known, is just below the Arctic Circle and stretches about 3,000 mile from the Yukon to the Atlantic Ocean. Needless to say several of the largest companies working in the forest, including Weyerhaeuser Corp have failed to endorse this agreement.

Alas, was the Boreal Forest in the United States with BUSH THE LESSER for sale sign hung on all aspects of the environment; logging and mining interests could contribute to Republican coffers and thus buy what they want. Witness last weeks signing of the Soviet named "The Healthy Forests Restoration Act" which reduces environmental reviews, limits lawsuits that might delay logging projects and pays $900 million of taxpayer’s money to logging interests to cut down trees in federal forests. What a Neaderthol this President is!

One suspects THE LESSER has never read Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring which observes; “THE CONTROL OF NATURE” IS A PHRASE CONCEIVED IN ARROGANCE, BORN OF THE NEADERTHOL AGE OF BIOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY, WHEN IT WAS SUPPOSED THAT NATURE EXISTS FOR THE CONVENINCE OF MAN.