Not to mention money mispent (to gain more money to mispend)
by becoming part of corporate/enviro partnerships that for the most
part exclude community interests. Dowie is working on a new
book on foundations right now. Should be another eye opener.
Mike Meuser
> And can you tell us just what the environmental groups did with all that
> membership? Read _Losing Ground_ by Mark Dowie, 1995, MIT Press. You'll see
> that the "environmental groups" squandered most of that increase in
> membership in salaries and infra-structure improvements. Go visit the DC
> offices of The Wildlife Federation sometime.
> Steven
> In the final analysis one should think only
> of one single science: the science of man,
> or, more exactly expressed, social science,
> of which our own existence constitutes at
> once the principle and the purpose and in
> which the rational study of the external
> world naturally comes to merge, for this
> double reason that the science of nature is
> a necessary constituent of and a basic
> preamble to social science.
>
> Auguste Comte
> Discourses, 1884
>
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