[at-l] AT & NJ Community Awareness

[RoksnRoots@aol.com (RoksnRoots@aol.com)]

In a message dated 3/14/2002 7:07:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, trich@fdic.gov 
writes:


> leave a bourgeois with little choice but to embrace the dark
> side of ever-increasing caustic apathy toward conservation causes

 
      *** Having lived in that area I can tell you the idea of perfect 
civilization is: removing trees to keep your lawn clean; a nice suburban 
grass front yard which is also a biological wasteland; spraying lawn 
chemicals to keep the bugs away; a bug zapper to sterilize all forms of 
non-suburban ideal away from the democratic individual suburban lot kingdom 
of the home-owning private property owner and self-ruling taxpayer lord; 
calling the police at any sign of wild nature, subduing the world by zoning 
board and code; enforcing the protected right to be kept at a safe distance 
from the homeless transient hikers not pursuing the split level existence 
themselves and therefore strange...

     The comic parade of children wearing signs saying keep us free from the 
AT child molesters being routed through our backyards is, unfortunately, the 
result of the downside of our particular suburban evolution. If you take off 
the filters, you would see that Benton MacKaye knew this and saw it back 
then. Where the AT conflicts with civilization-especially in this way - is 
where the "AT mechanism" MacKaye planned triggers a conflict which causes man 
to reflect on his relationship to nature. What is happening both here on AT-L 
and in Vernon is a planned AT reaction and part of the politics some like to 
avoid. It's our responsibility as AT people to make sure the outcome is one 
that works for the AT, and therefore Nature, and therefore mankind...

      If you asked those people if they would mind if a condo development 
were built over the AT in Vernon to solve their problem they would be all for 
it. To think that is an accepted view anywhere in America shows a real need 
for people to impress AT conservation on a fundamental basis. Don't let 
suburbicanus subdivisicus americanus undo the AT by involuntary habit...


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