[All] Maude Barlow: Nature Needs Rights -- Why Our Human-Centric Model Will Doom Us and the Rest of the Planet

[Robert Milligan]

Thanks Peter. This is a keystone issue for the survival of profit- 
seeking humanity that especially all environmentalists should give the  
highest priority to (what profit humanity to gain the whole world but  
loose our life support system?) . Robert M

PS: CAUTION -- WHAT FOLLOWS COULD BE VERY UPSETTING. Not unrelated,  
GREN's majority support (except 2 of us for sure) of the Region's  
current LRT proposal -- even though probably none of you sufficiently  
know the complexity of what you are supporting -- is a very bad  
decision. At a very critical time when humanity must use relatively  
scarce resources to sustainablize our way of Life (so as to  
fundamentally protect the planet), the Region's very non-innovative  
proposal would use excessive resources (money and materials) to create  
a partial LRT-based system that would ill-benefit our local economy,  
our community or our environment -- and be a great example of a World  
Innovative HUB dramatically failing to use proven technological  
innovations to succeed. I state this as probably the only citizen who  
has sufficiently researched the RTI project thus enabling me to  
constructively criticize its plan as a basis for suggesting proven  
technological enhancements which all of you GREN cheerleaders have  
shown at best a superficial interest ! (I do appreciate the interest  
of you Peter and Alisa.)  But for the rest of you, ego &  
competitiveness seem to get in the way of truth seeking and innovation- 
phylia in collaboration with others. And shame on you for creating  
such an un-loving climate at GREN meetings! (I especially did not  
appreciate the reluctance of John to allow me to address the group  
about my LRT system ideas, nor did I appreciate the 2 women who mocked  
me as I was about to speak!)


On 20-May-11, at 12:53 PM, Peter Kofler wrote:

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