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Posted Tue Jun 24 2008: from Globe and Mail (Canada):
First nations join pool of Fisheries petitioners http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1214318969
"The government has often used economics to rationalize wiping out or eradicating a particular species, or wiping out habitat for a species. They rationalize it with this thing called 'no net loss'," he said. "In other words they are arrogant enough to think that man is able and capable of making a decision on wiping out habitat, God's creation, and replacing it with some man-made habitat. And I don't think it's possible. "That's one of the policies I'd like the Auditor-General to look at, that goofy policy called 'no net loss'.
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Goofy indeed: 'no net loss' of microbes? 'no net loss' of fungi? 'no net loss' of insects?

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