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Nobody talking about old growth logging... so many strawmen attacks today.
by arminiusreturns 8y ago
Nobody talking about old growth logging... so many strawmen attacks today.
- philipkglass 8y agoI'm not trying to tell you what happened where you grew up. I'm describing what happened where I grew up. We're both just sharing anecdotes. The PhDs and environmentalists forced changes on timber communities in the state where I grew up because locals weren't good stewards of the national forests. If the PhDs listened to the timber town Oregon natives, the remaining old growth forest would stay open to logging too, the owls would have lost the last undisturbed habitat, and the post-timber economic cratering would have only been delayed for a bit. People who have grown up near extractive industries may have a lot of experience of how those industries work that PhDs lack. But people who grow up around extractive industries may also be poor judges of the sustainability of those industries. Anything you grow up with seems "normal" and it's comforting to believe that there's a good, familiar kind of job waiting for you when you grow up. Locals may see things very unclearly when clear vision would reveal big challenges and changes ahead.
- arminiusreturns 8y agoOk, sorry for the defensiveness, I got into that mode due to all the attacks. You make fair points.