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Re: I love plastic too...
By:Greg Bridges
Date: 5/23/2003, 2:55 pm
In Response To: Re: I love plastic too... (Scott Ferguson)

I didn't mean to respond on your post, it was the last one that I read. My point is that with out plastic, our world would not be the same. Unless David Hazen has started to live as a hunter/gatherer or subsistent farmer, then his opinion (which he has every right to state) is pure hypocrisy. He comes into contact with plastic many times in a day (and therefore in his view, is guity by association of degrading the enviroment). The amount of wood, fiberglass and epoxy used by homebuilt builders is sooooooo small when compared to rest of the manufacturing industries. The amount of pleasure I get when I'm building a boat or the pleasure that people get when looking at a wood/strip boat is well worth the tradeoff on the environment. I dispose of my empty epoxy bottles properly and have planted many trees on my property. And I enjoy the plastic products I buy.

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Material: Resource Responsibility
ChrisO -- 5/23/2003, 11:27 am
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Chip Sandresky -- 6/1/2003, 1:53 pm
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Colin -- 6/4/2003, 1:32 am
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Jeff The Tall -- 6/4/2003, 3:38 pm
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Colin -- 6/4/2003, 9:53 pm
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Colin -- 6/5/2003, 2:00 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility *Pic*
Chip Sandresky -- 6/4/2003, 3:37 am
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Mark Woodhead -- 6/2/2003, 12:12 am
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Myrl Tanton -- 6/1/2003, 10:45 pm
Some Clarifications
Grant -- 6/4/2003, 10:43 am
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Jeff The Tall -- 6/2/2003, 3:52 pm
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Don -- 5/23/2003, 7:37 pm
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LeeG -- 5/23/2003, 6:13 pm
Old growth wood
Dan Ruff -- 5/23/2003, 5:32 pm
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Tom Yost -- 5/23/2003, 4:47 pm
Pessemistic and oh so true. *NM*
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 6:28 pm
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Mike Loriz -- 5/23/2003, 5:28 pm
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mike loriz -- 5/23/2003, 4:26 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/23/2003, 2:21 pm
Humans are part of nature...
srchr/gerald -- 5/23/2003, 1:58 pm
"We Have Met the Enemy+He is US"
C. Fronzek -- 5/23/2003, 1:51 pm
Re: "We Have Met the Enemy+He is US"
Tom Yost -- 5/24/2003, 11:53 am
Re:Mea Culpa
C. Fronzek -- 5/23/2003, 2:02 pm
We live, we die...
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 1:49 pm
Re: We live, we die...
PBM -- 5/23/2003, 3:54 pm
Re: We live, we die...
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 3:56 pm
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Bob Kelim -- 5/24/2003, 12:44 pm
Re: We live, we die...
PBM -- 5/23/2003, 3:58 pm
Re: We live, we die...
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 4:01 pm
Re: Conservationism vs. Environmentalism
Shawn Baker -- 5/23/2003, 3:35 pm
Re: Conservationism vs. Environmentalism
Ed Falis -- 5/24/2003, 10:24 am
Definitions a bit fuzzy where I live...
Robert N Pruden -- 5/23/2003, 3:55 pm
Re: Material: Resource Responsibility
Dan G -- 5/23/2003, 1:42 pm
Re: Material: Recycled Cedar House Trim
Brian Wegener -- 5/26/2003, 1:03 am
Re: Thinner strips???
Scott Ferguson -- 5/23/2003, 1:23 pm
Re: Thinner strips???
Roger Nuffer -- 5/23/2003, 5:07 pm
I love plastic
Greg Bridges -- 5/23/2003, 1:54 pm
Re: I love plastic too...
Scott Ferguson -- 5/23/2003, 2:03 pm
Re: I love plastic too...
Greg Bridges -- 5/23/2003, 2:55 pm
Re: No worries Greg, I've done the same thing :D *NM*
Scott Ferguson -- 5/23/2003, 5:01 pm
Re: I love plastic too...
Shawn Baker -- 5/23/2003, 3:37 pm
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Chip Sandresky -- 5/23/2003, 12:48 pm
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Paul J -- 5/23/2003, 12:42 pm
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Tim Eastman -- 5/23/2003, 12:37 pm
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DAVE SPRYGADA -- 5/23/2003, 12:32 pm
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Tom Yost -- 5/23/2003, 12:04 pm