| Show ' tWO‘ 4 - c : 4 e - - - -b I - ' ' "- "i' z ' '' - ' - 44104160114e401144-K4441P4i‘-41- 4Ple4:I5 The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday November 26 1989 Enviromnentalists Must Dig Deeper to Cultivate The German ecology party known as "Die Gruenen" (the Greens) announced last month it was giving Nicaragua's Sandinistas 805000 Deutsche marks (about $400000) for their upcoming election campaign At first blush the gift seems gratuitous This Latin American government has proven itself better at putting newspaper editors in jail than saving ecosystems Compared with neighboring Costa Rica — the region's oldest continuing democracy — Nicaragua is an ecological infant So what does concern for the environment have to do with leftist politics? The answer: everything and nothing Many professional environmentalists in this country and elsewhere believe they know what la best for the rest of us So they are attracted to authoritarian governments that can enforce Itheir idea of ecological purity But their liking for solutions handed down from on high misses the main message of ecology: Like democracy it can succeed only as a grass-root- s enterprise "The preservationist" wrote environmental lawyer Joseph Sach in 1980 "knows something about what other people ought to want" These moralists would prevent starvation by slowing population growth protect the air by having people ride bicycles instead of driving cars and avert global warming by changing nearly everything we do — from reliance on coal-fireelectric plants to ! d ' 44 114 -- AISIOTI - 0 Chase 4 : building fires in wood stoves But few of us would change our lifestyles willingly For a certain kind of true believer therefore environmental reform requires coercion Many ecological fools enchanted with the idea of central planning are rushing in where all but resolute Marxists fear to tread Not all Dic Gruenen see governThis tendency is ment es a cure-al- l the weakness of a wing of the party known as the "Fundies" or fundamentalists Nevertheless many in the movement have firm roots in the socialist tradition The party was formed in the late 1970s as a coalition of communists (from groups and Social known as Democrats Although they preach "grass-root- democracy" they s would regulate every nook and cranny of citizens' lives As one German Green representative explained to me: "Grass-root- s democracy sounded wonderful before we were elected to Parliament But now we are in power centralized solutions seem far more effective" But belief in centralized control is smokestack requirements not just a German phenomenon Paradoxically many American environmentalists while urging us to "act locally" also pursue policies requiring enforcement from Washington Earth First activists sit in trees to demonstrate for more federal wilderness areas The Audubon Society lobbies for more government land purchases The Natural Resources Defense Council favors rigid "command and control" enforcement of standards and a host of d tree-lovin- g "old-growth- California warns the proposals could strike "right at the heart of rights" private-propert- y But Patricia Schifferle regional director for Ithe Wilderness Society responds: "These trees to many people are very significant in terms of spiritual beauty They are cathedrals to some people and should be left fbr generations" The trees 'In question are all that remain ef some 2 million acres of coastal redwoods Many of them were living before Christ's birth some are 15 feet across and 20 stoof the reries high Three-fourth- s maining 100000 acres are in parks and the rest is privately owned mostly by Pacific Lumber Co in and around Scotia a small company town 250 miles north of San Francisco Adding a sense of urgency to the debate is a plan by Pacific Lumber Co to log the heart of a 3000-acr- e virgin redwood stand known as Headwaters Forest and eyed by environmentalists for a wildlife reserve State Assemblyman Byron Sher calls Pacific Lumber's latest attempt to log its largest parcel of remaining ancient redwoods a "rush to the chain saw" to beat the proposed initiatives The company denies the ' One proposed ballot initiative backed by Sher Assemblyman Tom Hayden Monica and other Democratic politicians would impose a r logging moratorium on ang cient redwoods ban of all trees in a stand and provide $200 million in bonds for the acquisition of ancient redwoods The second proposal written by EPIC or Environmental Protection Information Center in Garberville trees of all would affect g varieties It would ban provide at least $691 million in bonds to acquire ancient trees and prohibit trees from being cut faster than they can be replaced Each plan needs 372178 voter signatures to qualify for the ballot The debate over the measures — waged on both ends of the political spectrum — centers on potential job losses controlled burning herbicide spraying and endangerment of the spotted owl and other species that make their home in old growth The Timber Association for instance maintains that EPIC's plan would result in an 85 percent shutdown of the state's timber industry and cost 176500 jobs and $227 billion in economic activity The association estimates the Hayden-backe- d plan would cost at least 2100 jobs "That's where I come right in and say eat the spotted owl and save the logger" said Don Fish a Pacific Lumber worker with tattoos on both forearms and suspenders g his back Outsido the Scotia coffee shop where he ate lunch recently pickup truck anten nas sported yellow ribbons in support of local loggers and bumper stickers on logger trucks read "Trees are America's renewable reone-yea- clear-cuttin- clear-cuttin- 'Louie Louie' May Bring Dotvn the House Insurer Wants Owner of Aging Stadium standards Moving society Worldwatch Insti- tute's Lester Brown suggests re– quires "both a carrot and a stick" The carrot is heavy government subsidies — for public transportation alternative energy and the like The stick Is tighter government control over our lives This reflects a fageination with solutions that has long heavy-hande- d absorbed some environmentalists In his 1948 book "The Plundered Planet" Fairfield Osborn viewed sympathetically Stalin's collective farms for their efficiency and ecologic sensitivity Likewise in his "State of the World 1989" Brown cites approvingly China's methods of birth control (which are reported to include forced abortions) as showing "what nations can do if they are serious about slowing population growth" As we head to the 2Ist century environmental protection and civil liberties are on a collision course As problems worsen the temptation to solve them by coercion grows Governments are already tightening Lead Story: Because of fears that the song would send students dancing uut of control in its aging football stadium the University of South Carolina heeded its insurer's demand and forbade bands from playing "Louie Louie" at games Questionable Judgments: — Time magazine apologized earlier this year for running (in Its British edition) an ad for a color firm that featured faded red swastikas and the headline "Poor use of color can ruin your presentation" — Richard Hensarling Jr 25 was jailed in August for the robberies of four central Florida banks He later admitted that he had learned his lesson about using women's dresses as robbery disguises because of the stbsequent reactions of his fellow inmates — As a guest lecturer (on the secrets of his Wall Street success) at Purdue University in February Arthur J Curry told students that they must be willing to risk everything to win big and that for example he needed a dollars right then for an imminent deal A month later Curry was charged with kidnapping a woman in Bloomington Ind to collect a $17 million ransom from her husband who owns a large medical instruments firm — James D Blanchard 29 smashed through a convenience store in Ocean Pines Md with a stolen dump truck in July so that s he could steal 14 of beer 20 cartons of cigarettes and a pack of Slim Jim& — Gregory Fensom 32 was fired by the REMAX real estate office in Independence Mo in July after he led five people to a sale house listed with his office and staged a 3 am party with movement organizer said in a recent interview His environmental group has won several lawsuits halting Pacific Lumber logging Indeed many jobs already have been lost to modernized mills which employ about half the former labor force Louisiana Pacific Corp's decision to start construction this month of a plant in Mexico throws another hole in the industry's appeal to save jobs The debate over timber cutting has grown so heated that environmentalists are pulling up arguments from 100 years ago and loggers are 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