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Show THE ZEPHYR) DECEMBER 2008-JANUARY 2009 derman can also have a positive effect on Utah public lands issues (EDITOR’S NOTE: Mr. Richardson refers to recent Salt Lake Tribune articles about Governor Huntsman’s newfound public concern for ATV abuse after traveling the state with David Bonderman, “a prominent venture capitalist and major financier for the Southern Utah Wilderness bee Alliance.”). The Readers Respond... | I'm also wondering what outcome you are looking for with your SUWA and the Trust? Do you truly think Utah public lands issues their involvement? Do you believe that Utah public lands would be at less risk without ment? Who, if anyone, should take their place to protect public lands ANOTHER MAHBU RECRUIT? Mr. Stiles, I came across you in an article I read in the Mountain Gazette. I see that some of our interests and concerns are the same. I might be a candidate for M.A.H.B.U., though from the unrepentant Utah Mormon with redneck affinities side of the equation. I became fed up with Democrat- Republican, liberal- conservative politics in the mid80's, and followed my family back to rural Utah. I soon became disillusioned with the Best, constant attacks on aren't benefitted by these orgs’ engagein Utah? : Thomas Richardson EDITOR’S REPLY: In 2006, I noted in a “Writers on the Range” essay that no one was more vigilant than SUWA when it came to oil and gas impacts and ATV abuse. I suggested that it is failing, however, to consider impacts from the amenities economy. Now, with global warming threatening our very existance and a collapsing world economy that cannot support the luxury of an “amenities economy,” worrying about ATV tracks almost seems like a quaint remembrance from the good old days, when off road damage was all we had to fret about. It’s like watching someone diligently cleaning the kitchen while the rest of the house burns down New West agenda of tourism-recreation-service economics. Its proponents come across as very arrogant. Worse, I see this “unholy matrimony” between environmentalist-big government, liberal control freak “do-gooders” and pork-seeking, land speculating con_servatives as destructive to the American heritage of democracy, freedom, equality, etc. For years I fought the designation of my community as a National Park Service “national heritage area,” geared towards the “New Ruralism” economy of the leisure environmentalist class. : Brad Van Dyke, representative Rural Utahns For Local Solutions around them. As for the wealth associated so blatantly with green groups these days. Try to imagine this: What if, in the 1960s, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was funded by people who belonged to whites only country clubs and whose own lifestyles failed to reflect anything remotely open-minded when it came to racial equality? What if we'd discovered that Martin Luther King was getting a fat salary from his hypocritical benefactors? What would THAT have done to King’s credibility? = And finally Mr. Richardson asks, “who, if anyone, should take (SUWA’s and GCT’s) place to protect public lands in Utah?” Ultimately, it needs to be someone who understands that we can’t save the planet or even Utah AND maintain and even PROMOTE the mindless economic growth that most of their board P.O. Box 3 Spring City, Utah 84662 BONDERMAN’S $1.5 BILLION LOSS... Dear Jim - You may have just seen over the newswires that Moab’s newest resident billionaire just got $1.5 billion wiped out in one fell swoop by the Wamu collapse. From TPG's comments in the above link, they sound pretty nonplussed, so I don’t think we'll be seeing any construction stoppages on that swampside behemoth of a house. Thanks for another nice issue of the Zephyr last month. I don’t always agree with you, but even after rolling into town at 11 o'clock at night last weekend, I found myself, as I have for nearly 20 years, hunting down a copy of the CCZ before heading in to the backcountry for the night. A little contribution toward the online experiment is on its way. Long live independent media! Andrew Mirrington members adhere to....JS : THE ‘ADVOCACY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX’ Mr Stiles, lam very appreciative of your work, especially because you speak the unpopular truth and think past facile and popular beliefs. I’m particularly grateful to read a challenge to what I think of (un-originally) as the Advocacy Industrial Complex. Sadly we have arrived at the point where we have numerous groups that are inextricably involved in the management (and perpetuation) of problems they were originally established to eliminate. This sorry scenario seems inevitably to be repeated across the issue horizon from social to environmental concerns once an executive salary pipeline is established. Telluride, Colorado A MORMON ZEPHYR FAN Apropos your article, Disasters in Future May Be Closer Than They Appear, just this Hey jim, week the International Energy Agency issued it's report for 2008 stating that: I've been a fan of the zephyr ever since I was 14 and picked it up on a boy scout camp out to arches. What really sealed the deal is when my scout leader told me it was crap. “The world’s energy system is at a crossroads. Current global trends in energy supply So please put me on the email list. I’m part of a bimonthly publication now, it’s called the Mormon worker. It’s a paper about radical politics and Mormonism. Themormonworker. and consumption are patently unsustainable, environmentally, economically, socially. .. What is needed is nothing short of an energy revolution.” http://www.iea.org/Textbase/npsum/WEO2008SUM. pdf org Keep up the great work. Peace I just received an article “Forgotten Fundamentals Tyler Bushman of the Oil Crisis” that appeared Sept.1978 in the American Journal of Physics. It remains, still, resonant with the issues of population, resource consumption and depletion that you mentioned. In spite of the THIS READER WILL MISS THE ZEPHYR... im, V’ll miss the unique publication that has been the Zephyr. I plead guilty to visiting Moab many times in the ugly lycra and riding and walking my bike around the area. | have come to love the area even if I never ride another mile on the bike there. Living in a touristy town in Northern California, I know the mixed blessings of having so many outsiders in the town. Nevada City is not as inundated as Moab,though. I became a big Abbey fan in the 80's and I’ve always eaten up what info your newspaperhadabouthim. . You are a talented writer and thanks for the efforts for so long. I hope the on-line version works out. I'll miss the Zephyr in my hands, though. It’s absence will leave a hole in my life. I'm getting too sappy. Thanks and good-luck in whatever the future holds. Mike Schmidt Loving subscriber clarity with which the author physicist Dr Albert Bartlett addressed these issues he remained a voice crying into the void, inaudible over a howling gale of nonsense (seems familiar doesn’t it). Bartlett cuts through all the crap about how much oil we may still have offering that “It is possible to calculate an absolute upper limit to the amount of crude oil the earth could contain. We simply assert that the volume of petroleum in the earth cannot be larger than the volume of the earth . . . this earth full of oil will [would] last only 342 yr! [based on the rate of increasing consumption in 1970 -- 7.04%] ” Of course the best part of Bartlett's article is that much of his discussion is equally applicable to a variety of other critical resources. It offers and clearly explains how to use tools that will allow for grassroots level refutation of blithe assurances by corporate mouth pieces and regulatory shills that “everything is fine we have lots of it”. We can not shop our way out of critical resource shortages. Best regards, Robyn Edwards Bayview, ID THIS READER WILL NOT. im: I’ve been following your articles and wonder if you see that people like David Bon- Editor’s Note: Thanks Robyn...I hope to include a summary of the article you mentioned in the first online Zephyr, next April...JS The Art of OHN EPUY ravensmount@yahoo.com 30 |
