From: Billy Brown (bbrown@conemsco.com)
Date: Thu May 13 1999 - 08:30:16 MDT
mark@unicorn.com wrote:
> Billy Brown [bbrown@conemsco.com] wrote:
> >If you believe, for example, that the destruction of the
> Brazilian rain
> >forest is evil and stupid, it does no good to rail against
> it to an audience
> >of Americans. There is precious little we can do about it
> without resorting
> >to a massive application of force.
>
> Actually, there is one thing you can do: buy the rain
> forests. Of course,
> that would require that the eco-fanatics spend some of their
> own money,
> whereas they only like to spend other peoples'..
Yes. Of course, I don't think the Brazilian government would let us do it
anyway - they have pretty restrictive views about foreign ownership of
anything that big.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@conemsco.com
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