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Eexcerpts from
"The
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight"
by Thom Hartmann:
"In 1997 a group of thirteen researchers released a study
in which they quantified the value of all the environments of the planet.
From measuring the size of the Louisiana shrimp harvest to how much people
were willing to pay for acces to a lake, coral reef, or other natural
attraction. They concluded that the planet's natural areas were worth
about $33 trillion.
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"That someone would even consider
putting a price tag on the world is an indication of how far out on the
edge we've gone. It demonstrates a mind-set which says that the world is
here for us and only has value to the extent to which we can or do use it. |
| "Many people share this viewpoint. From
those who claim that the planet is a self-stabilizing, living system to
those who argue that we need more wild areas to preserve forests for
campers and backpackers, the implicit message is that we need to save the
ecosystems because they are of value to humans, directly or
esthetically." |
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"Buying FSC products is not
only a smart business decision for Home Depot, but one that can help save
the environment" Annette Verschuren, president, Home Depot Canada. |
"Even at its most noble, its most
altruistic, its most concerned for our environment, our Younger Culture is
expressing a profound self-centeredness, a concern that if our natural
environment is lost, we may no longer use, appreciate, or even worship it. |
| "But there is a different way to view
the natural world. Older cultures, with few exceptions, hold as their most
fundamental concept the belief that we are not different from, in charge
of, superior to, or inferior to the natural world. We are part of it.
Whatever we do to nature, we do to ourselves. whatever we do to ourselves
we do to the world. For most, there is no concept of separate
"nature": it's all us and we're all it." |
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informed purchasing decisions and take personal responsibility for the
effect of our consumption on future generations. |
