Reform...

"To me it is a matter of reform, it's a matter of taking a look at it as a transitional issue in our community. We need to compensate these people who've been locked into an industry that is in the old sense no longer viable. They do feel threatened, and the threat isn't only coming from people like environmentalists putting pressure on to stop cutting oldgrowth forest. It's coming from the change in the industry in which cabinet timber and building timber is like 2% of what the forests are used for. You just take the whole lot and when you take the whole lot and then fire bomb it, then drop 1080 to stop the herbivores eating the plants that you then replace. Now to suggest that you can do that and that that constitutes a renewable resource is to suggest that the only things in the forest that are of any consideration are those eucalypts that are cut down for pulp, and all the rest of the eco-environment that exists there is meaningless... and we all know that's not so. "

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