---------- Forwarded message ---------- This message was originally submitted by kforbes@USAID.GOV to the FOREST list In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 08:54:38 +0800 From: Nelson Wong <nelson@mtc.com.my> Subject: Re: Fwd: Wood Chip Industry Feeling Mounting Pressure from Citizens URL: http://www.metla.fi/archive/forest/1997/08/msg00028.html ------------------------ Original message ------------------------- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 10:04:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Keith Forbes <kforbes@usaid.gov> Subject: Mr. Wong's Comments Message-id: <vines.4Lh8+NLRunA@BARRB0204.usaid.gov> Dear list, I am rather stunned by the tone and content of Mr. Wong's comments. I must challenge his notion that calling for a study of the impacts of the wood-chipping industry is equivalent to saying that wood chips should not be produced at all. He makes this claim by stating that we would have no paper and wood pulp and, consequently, no paper for books and magazines. I would challenge Mr. Wong to show us the logic in this assertion. The only way this makes sense is if he suspects/knows that studying the ecological impacts of wood chipping would lead to the end of the industry, and if this is so, I would be very interested in the reasons behind this suspicion. Also, the attack on ALL environmental organizations is rather uncalled for and uninformed. There are numerous researchers and technologists in these organizations and I would advise Mr. Wong to look over the composition of these organizations before making such crass comments. Finally, the onus is very much not upon environmentalists to be able to communicate with the business world in business terms, but the DUTY of business people or anyone who pursues possibly environmentally damaging land uses to explain the impacts to society. I think Mr. Wong feels that environmentalists are annoying stumbling blocks to business, but business people create their own stumbling blocks when they regard their profits as more important than the environment which belongs to us all. Regards, Keith Forbes USAID Washington DC COMMENTS ARE MY OWN ONLY. ****************************************************************************
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