“"But, to love nature and hate humanity is illogical. Humanity is part of the whole. To truly love the world is also to love human ingenuity and playfulness. Nature does not need to be cleansed of human artifacts to be beautiful or coherent. Yes, we should be less greedy, untidy, wasteful, and shortsighted. But let us not turn responsibility into self-hatred. Our biggest failing is, after all, lack of compassion for the world. Including ourselves." ”
—David Haskell, The Forest Unseen
Gibson Guitar CEO defends company amid US probe
google.comNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The head of Tennessee-based Gibson Guitar said Saturday that he strongly backs conservation as well as federal enforcement of laws meant to protect the tropical hardwoods that his company uses for instruments.
The comments by Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz follow an August raid by federal agents of Gibson factories in Nashville and Memphis. More than 10,000 fingerboards made from imported Indian rosewood were seized.
Juszkiewicz has said the company faces allegations of using wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers — a potential violation of the Lacey Act, which bans the import of illegal wildlife, plants and wood.
Speaking to reporters on Saturday at a tea party sponsored “We stand with Gibson” rally in Nashville, Juszkiewicz said he supports the intent of the act, but he called the requirement for Indian workers to finish the wood a “misuse of environmental law.”
“This is not about conservation or illegal logging, to my knowledge,” he said.
The Associated Press
wat makes u think that all u need to be pro life os to say it, but envoinrmentalist (pro earth) you can't just asy it? doesn't make sense to me. And how old arey ou?
Being pro-life is a belief-based system. Any belief-based system determines it’s members by their beliefs, which is something you have to take their word for because you cannot read their mind.
When someone says they’re Christian (meaning they believe in Jesus Christ), you have to take their word for it that they really do believe in Jesus Christ because there’s no way anyone other than that individual can know. To be a christian, you just have to believe; though actions such as going to church or reading the Bible can help determine if someone is christian or not, you can only know if someone is Christian if they say they believe in Christ because you cannot know if they believe unless they say so.
Same thing with being pro-life. You have to simply believe embryos/fetuses are people; you just have to believe that, and the only way others can know that you’re pro-life is if you tell them you are. Actions such as going to protests and reblogging pro-life propaganda on the internet can go hand-in-hand with being pro-life (just as going to church can go hand-in-hand with being a Christian), but ultimately you cannot know if someone is pro-life or not unless they say so.
I didn’t think that was a concept I’d ever have to explain. It’s not NASA science.
