Hello folks,
As I indicated in last post, I have servious misgivings about B/C. I don't
know the whole answer, nor do I know all the quesitons/problems with any
decision-making model for environmental issues.
For example, where do the following values fit into a B/C analysis? Or
don't the people holding these values have standing in environmental
decision-making? Can B/C incorporate the values of all the several segments
of a society? Can any public decision model? Should they?
Ray
Following *partial* quote from Rachel at:
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=1
IN THE NATIVE WAY
by Tom Goldtooth*
National Director, Indigenous Environmental Network
Spirituality plays a very important role in the work our network
does in environmental protection. It frames who we are. I believe
that as Native people, we are the land and the land is us. Those
of us in the environmental justice movement have started to
educate the larger environmental movement that our work
protecting the environment is spiritual work.
When we talk about the environment, very often we are talking
about sacred elements. We're talking about air, which is a gift
from the Creator. From the day that we're born, we take that
first gasp of air and that's the life giver. Some day that breath
of life is going to leave our body, thus completing its cycle.
Water is a sacred element. From the time the unborn is swimming
around in the womb of its mother, we need water to sustain us.
Throughout our lifetime, that water that flows through the veins
of our Mother Earth remains connected to all life throughout the
world.
The soil, the earth itself, that skin of Mother Earth is also one
of the sacred elements.
http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=1
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