Posted on 03/11/2010 5:59:38 AM PST by Utah Binger
This year's Stegner Symposium will consider whether it is possible to create a civilization that is both prosperous and environmentally healthy and, if so, how.
The Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law will stage its 15th Annual Symposium on Friday and Saturday in Salt Lake City.
The two-day event will include perspectives from scientists, economists, agriculturists, ecologists, architects, attorneys and policy analysts who will represent the thoughts of industry, academia, and nonprofit organizations.
The symposium will take up the notion of sustainability, what it adds to traditional environmental protection and how it might help people live in balance with their natural and human-made surroundings.
Pamela Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, will give Friday's keynote address, "How We Can Create a Society That Meets the Needs of Both People and the Planet in the 21st Century."
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You know, I have no problem with being responsible with our environment and resources.
I object to the whole thing being hijacked by the liberal socialist element who is using it to enslave us.
Bingo!
That is absolutely correct. My problem is that these elites are of the opinion that conservatives (conservationists)out here in the hinterlands are not capable of preservation. And they do it in the name of Wallace Stegner who most certainly would not think Al Gore was a real conservationist.
I loved Stegner’s “Angle of Repose,” but in the end it was basically an argument that the West should never have been settled, and that all the Western water projects, from Lake Powell on down to the most modest, were a mistake.
I’m with you on that. I would have loved to have been able to sit down with Stegner over a couple of beers and make an effort to convert his thinking a bit.
You’re right about his gift for writing.
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I hope they have the DEFINITION of prosperity nailed down before these Utopians start yammering all over the place!
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