Thank you Kim, I have made a few responses to your note below.
At 05:54 18/08/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Tony Russell has the right to his views, expressed how he pleases, and with
>all the vigor he likes. Nothing in Scott O'Keefe's comparatively low-key
>and to my mind pretty sensible reponse denied him that, for all his bluster
********* Bluster? I had to check my Webster for this one. It said " a
violent blast of wind; a gust; noisy talk; ( well, maybe), swaggering; (
no, not me), boisterousness; ( not at my age). -- I think I'll take the
noisy talk one, that's probably the nearest.
.....................
>about it tending "to deny people the right to say anything which isn't
>academically verifiable, well researched and well documented." But his
>final crack about how he is "an
>environmentalist by choice, not by pretence." is too cheap and nasty a
>sneer to go by without comment.
************* A sneer? Hm, I hadn't seen it that way. It was intended as a
humble comment about myself, perhaps even self criticism.
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I for one do not see how anyone who is
>genuinely committed to effective action to alleviate Australia's very real
>environmental problems would expect sneering at their natural allies to be
>an effective way of building community pressure. Everyone who is on this
>list and who is thereby interested in nature and the environment is way,
>way above the Australian average for interest in these issues. So if we are
>going to pour shit on one another, what chances are there of reaching those
>who are not already half-converted? So I do not believe you,
(******** well, you please yourself)
in your
>claim to be a genuine environmentalist by choice - you just want to sound
>off and feel smug.
************ Genuine? I didn't use this word, you've put it in.
Smug? I don't feel at all smug. Angry maybe, but not smug.You
have
seriously misread me here. What is there to be smug about?
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If you really cared, you'd be trying to build bridges to
>people like Scott, not write in ways that are bound to piss them off.
>
************** Yes, yes, yes, quite correct. I was too snappy by far.
I am indeed justifiably chastened. Sorry Scott.
T.
Tony Russell,
Adelaide, South Australia
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