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Re: A political aside
- Subject: Re: A political aside
- From: "Yo Intl." rrr@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:32:34 +0900
At 02:00 PM 5/20/01 -0400, Harry Binswanger wrote:
>"So much of the United States remains forested largely because of the
>demand for wood,"
Old routine. It, of course, plays on the defintion of "forested". If you
equate an industrial monocultural fast-growth forest with a natural one,
then sure, yes, you can pull that off. One would think, however, that
after 8 years of semantic trickery, people should be more alert to this
particular waza.
-- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo
-- "Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong." (Oscar
Wilde)