USA: Top 7 eco-issues too dangerous for journalists to cover

By Tim Hermach,  Native Forest Council

1. Why is it that in big but not un-common Pac NW rainstorms some
rivers and streams run clear, with moderate flows and don’t flood
while others are muddy from major landslides and cause the major
flooding?.  Answer: clearcut logging of the steep-slope backcountry in
our watersheds

2. Why the failure to protect the smaller streams, Class 3 and 4s,
makes protecting the larger Class 1 & 2 streams impossible? Answer:
it’s like trying to protect our arteries while letting our capillaries
and veins be destroyed

3. The importance of and extreme risk to our drinking water sources
from too much logging as well as to our climate and weather. What can
and should be done about it by any reasonable and informed populace.

4. How our state Forest Practices Acts fail to adequately, if at all,
regulate the clearcut logging industry or to prevent the harm they
have always and still continue to cause all of us.

5. How our Country and states are being stripped of their
commonwealth assets by dishonest & destructive sectors of industry for
a mere pittance of their value by any measure, let alone by a +full
replacement cost of goods sold” valuation..

6. How the timber industry cheats the citizens and taxpayers by using
our system of legalized bribery and extortion to force our political
representatives to allow them to pay the least taxes, little or
nothing, while causing the greatest costs and harm.

7. What are the full-costs vs benefits, using whole cost calculus (no
externaties), of the various corporations and Govt decisions & actions
in supporting them? Which ones are we glad to support and which ones
should be dechartered and eliminated if & when it’s determined that
they hurt our communities and Country and cost us all far more than
they are worth? Those that are deadly & dishonest, big tobacco,
mountaintop removal mining, clearcut logging, big polluters, and the
list goes on of many that make their ill-gotten gains (“profits”) at
much greater cost to the citizens while delivering little if anything
of real value.

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