Subject: Gee, Gene, I'm impressed
Date: Mar 1 08:59:01 2000
From: MBlanchrd at aol.com - MBlanchrd at aol.com


In a message dated Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:33:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, cametobe at ix.netcom.com writes:

> But where do you fit tolerance for your own species
> into your huge resume? Criticizing people only
> sparks more criticism, as you may have noticed.
> Maybe you could instead share useful and specific
> info about how people could make a difference.
>
> --Rebecca, Northgate, Seattle

Rebecca, Gene is defending himself against kneejerk reaction to what that someone percieved as criticism.

Watching the destruction of habitat and the environment on the whole and idly standing by, NOT CRITICIZING the perpetrators of the destruction, is how we got in this mess in the first place.

Too much complacency (so what, it's only a ugly little Guam rail. I'll never see them here. ) and greed (By god, my daddy got rich cutting old growth trees, my granddaddy got rich cutting old growth trees, I'M gonna cut old growth trees and make lots of money selling them to the Japanese.)without criticism results in what we have now......endangered species, loss of habitat, degradation of the resources we have left.

What will happen, Rebecca, when the city or county or whatever comes into YOUR backyard and wants to cut the trees because they're a threat to the new powerline, orsites a huge new landfill in behind it? Will you stand complacent? Will you accept it as inevitable and accept it gracefully? Or will you criticize and fight it?
Or will you merely move?

As for acquiring useful information as to how one can make a difference, why don't you display a little tolerance yourself and ASK Gene instead of criticizing him?

Michelle Blanchard
MBlanchrd at aol.com