4 — Wednesday, June 16, 1993 ~- North Snore News Forestry fight: Bob WHAT WITH the forestry issue rapidly becoming almost as devisive in B.C. as separatism is in Quebec (although, in fact, { think the issue is a helluva lot more significant, since we are talking about trees that have been around longer than our current nation-state), a few more columns devoted to the subject seem perfectly in order. Lam in receipt of a 10-page on-the-record fax from my old buddy Pat Moore, who is angry, to say the least, about comments | have made recently about him and what I see as his increasingly po- litical role in the forestry debate. “Shame on you, Bob,’’ he writes, “but you have no shame, nor loyalty to any known form of personal or diplomatic relations. .. You know how to dish it out but I suspect that you’re not very good at taking it back. ... I have to decide whether you are really interested in discussion or if you are just looking for more grist for your gossip colunn.”’ OK. Given that [ have an unfair advantage in this debate because this is my column, I’m going to turn the rest of the space over to my enraged friend (or, sadly, ex- friend), and in the next column Pil try to reply to the arguments he makes. So, take it away, Pat: “Your columns are clearly an attempt to discredit me and the effort 1 am now making to reform forestry. ... Your acceptance of an intellectually simplistic we/they . analysis might have washed in the early ’70s where there were only a few of ‘us’ who understood some- thing of planetary ecology. “For me, the precess from con- frontation to consensus has mir- rored the growing mass awareness of environment... “The revolution is over, Bob, and the time for hard work and figuring out solutions has arriv- edi... “My work for the Fovest Alli- ance is centred around the Princi- ples of Sustainable Forestry, the drafting and public consultation of which I lead. “These principles have been published for over a year now, and there hasn’t been a single substantive criticism of them ex- cept the point that they are just nice words on paper (so are the Ten Commandments) and how can we be sure they will be followed by the evil forest com- ’ panies? STRICTLY PERSONAL “This is a good point but the fact is they are being followed and a real effort is under way to reform forest practice.... ‘*My big crime is that I see for- estry and forests with a different set of eyes and from a different perspective than much of the present eco-leadership. “You evidence an elitist urban bias that rejects the idea that a logger could be an environmen- talist.... ‘Unfortunately you appeal to all the other elitist urbanites who need scapegoats to justify their ethically unjustifiable attitude of superiority. “Important distinction: wilderness protection and forestry are not mutually exclusive. “It has served the interests of the preservation movement (which I largely support, particularly doubling the wilderness) to use images of destructive forestry practice to lever public opinion in favor of creating new parks. “Alls fair in war, but this has the unfortunate spin-off of mak- ing parks and forestry seem the antithesis of each other when in fact there is no reason we can’t increase the area of wilderness protection while at the same time new cllerits only « ° Ist service only 1361 MARINE DRIVE, WEST VAN. Our mission: To make the bes adventure clothing i in the world... in Canada: ‘@ Perms © e Streaking valid to e Colour duly 30/93 improving forestry where it i5 permitted... “*f realize it can be argued that every square inch of anything that can be called ‘wild’ should be protected and that a line should be drawn. ... “In B.C., drawing this line translates to ‘no more cutting old growth,’ even if that means kick- ing out the humans. “Problem is the humans aren't about to be kicked out, and they have the votes. At a political level it is not realistic to ignore popula- tion growth, community stability, or the economic base... “fam not, in any official sense, a spokesman for the forest in- dustry. “The Forest Alliance, of which Iam a director, is a non-profit society with a board of 30 citi- zens, three of whom are forest company CEOs. The rest are in- dividuals from ali over B.C.... “The funding for the Forest Al- liance comes from the companies and their suppliers, bankers, cus- tomers, etc. Why shouldn't they be the ones to pay to clean up their own act? So:neone has to support this effort... “Has it ever cawned on you, dear Bob, that my motivation is to contribute something positive to the industry that my grandfa- ther and father have worked in all their lives? “Not to sabotage it, not to despise it, not to ridicule it and its workers, but to improve it in the light of the ecological knowledge I gained while being supported by it... “TE still need to be convinced that you are genuine about a real dialogue. You accuse me of being a partisan while itis obvious to — me that you are the one relying on rhetoric, clever wording, innuen- do, gossip, and blind allegiance’ to the party line.... “You and countless other. hacks profess to be above the fray while hurling bolts of self-righteous in- vective down at mortals who have no recourse but to resort:to logical argurnent or froth at the mouth until dead. But 1 give you too much credibility." — OK, Pat. On with the dialogue. Next column, or should I say round? CE YM «GS EI EE CE = vs. Pat AN EVENING WITH AUDREY SQJONKY AND JOHN TURNER The Capilano-Howe Sound Federal Liberal Association is pleas- ed to invite you to enjoy dinner with our next Member of Parlia- ment, Audrey Sojonky and former Prime Minister John Turner. 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