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From: John Foster <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: Is Altruism consistent with environmentalsim?
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>At 12:53 AM 12/8/1998 EST, you wrote:
>>Are we talking life history or phenomenological research now? In
attempting
>>to understand altruism and its function do we take a snapshot of a
particular
>>situation and extrapolate?
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>We may want to integrate the two. History of social action is valuable for
>designing ethical actions in the future. Getting people to go when there
is
>a 'green light' on conducting an action is what is important. For instance,
>the following item is important to me. I like cats. The question is then
>what do we do about the tigers?
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>ECONOMIC CRISIS AFFECTS TIGERS: The Baltimore Sun reported recent
>Russia's economic crisis is devastating 400 Siberian tigers left in the
>Russian Far East. The tigers were maintaining a tenuous existence
>until impacted by huge forest fires and an increase in poaching. The
>skin and organs of one tiger smuggled to China brings an amount equal
>to 100 years salary for a forest ranger.
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A good eco-thriller novel on this is "Siberian Light" by ....I forget
Bissell
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