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VOLUME 71, Number 11
Vancouver, B.C. Friday, October 14,1988 Classifieds
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through October 19 at Baehanan
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Genera] meeting. Noon, SUB 215,.
CITR Week
Excited First Daughter with special guest, Paula, Noon, SUB
Auditorium.
UBC New Democrats
General Meeting. Noon, SUB 215.
UBC Ayn Rand Club
Audiotape: ''Why should one acton
principler Noon, SUB 119.
Microbiology Club
Bzzr Garden. 4*8:30 pjn., SUB
212.
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Bzzr Garden. 4:30-7
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p.m.
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SUBFilms presentation: "Hope
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Asian Pood Night 7:30-11 p.m.,
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Dance. Terminal City, 8 p.m.k
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Earth Tones AMS Choir
Practice, 6 p.m., Scarfe 100.
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Minimal .Risk Program1, speaker
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Libertarian Club of UBC
Dennis Corrigan, national leader
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Antigone — run ending October 14th.
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The Carmanah Valley contains the tallest known Sitka Spruce tree in Canada
MALCOM PEARSON
National treasure escapes axe
Giant trees elude MacMillan Bloedel
By Kim Trainor
Environmentalists call it a
natural treasure, but the forest
industry calls it cold cash.
The Carmanah Valley, a
6,700 hectare area located on the
west coast of Vancouver Island,
contains some of the largest
Sitka spruce trees in Canada.
But to MacMillan Bloedel these
giant trees, which can reach
three meters in diameter and
can be seven hundred years old,
are worth up to $44,000 each
when logged.
MacBlo originally scheduled logging to begin in Carmanah in 2003. But in 1984 they
advanced their plans 15 years,
and by May of this year had
constructed a network of logging
roads that stretched to the edge of
the Carmanah drainage basin.
The Western Canada Wilderness Committee began to build
trails through the Carmanah to
increase public awareness of
MacBlo's activities, and ease access to the valley, accusing MacBlo
of attempting to sneak into the
valley before the public became
aware of the area's existence.
After MacBlo failed to placate
WCWC by offering to preserve a
token 99 hectares (1.4 per cent) of
the valley, the company sought an
injunction to stop WCWC's trail
building activities, accusing the
committee of building dangerous
trails and of "changing the land
scape.
The court ruled in favour of
the Wilderness Committee, stating that the tree farm licence
MacBlo holds does not give it exclusive rights to the area.
MacBlo could not bar public
access to crown land wilderness
areas, the judgement said.
MacBlo released its latest
plans for the Carmanah on October 6. It will now preserve 175
hectares, while designating an
additional 1,800 hectares as a
"special management area* that
will be logged slowly.
The preserved area includes the valley's major spruce
groves and the tallest known
Sitka spruce tree in Canada.
Erosion
threatens
BC forests
Forester cites logging practices
Mark Wareing
By Catherine Lu
The human race must redefine its place on the planet, according to Mark Wareing, a forester
who is disillusioned by forestry
practices in B.C.
"As a culture, we seem to believe that the resources of the
planet are here for us to exploit,
that somehow we're the centre of
the universe,
and everything
is just here for
us to take," he
said yesterday
in a noon-hour
lecture sponsored by the En-
vironment
Interest Group.
Wareing
stressed the
need to change
our cultural values, which he
said leads humankind to ignore the detrimental impact we have on the
environment.
While he recognized the production of forest products "is an
important part ofthe economy and
has to be maintained," he questioned the way we harvest those
forests.
Wareing, who is a member of
the Western Canada Wilderness
Committee, presented a slide
show demonstrating the long-
term devastation to B.C.'s steep
coastal hillsides caused by current
clear-cutting practices.
Soil erosion, which occurs
naturally, increases enormously
with clear-cutting and road-building, he said.
Steep mountain faces rely on
tree cover to maintain their soil
level, but when a range is clear-
cut, the soil loses its protection
from wind and precipitation.
The soil erodes so rapidly and
completely that the quick regeneration of forest becomes unlikely.
"The company line that clear-
cutting on the coast is a natural
way of regenerating the forest is
totally misleading," said Wareing.
"It is a colossal catastrophe."
However, Wareing believes
the major cause of soil erosion is
road-building, which disrupts
natural drainage patterns in the
basins.
Wareing noted companies
could harvest timber using selective systems and "still maintain
the integrity of the forest and
avoid erosion."
But the
industry does
not employ
more suitable methods
of logging
because it
"pictures a
short term
cost," Wareing said.
"What is
the value of
that soil
that's being
lost?" he
asked. "It's
not given a
value and it's not put into the
equation, so the answers you come
up with are wrong."
He said if this situation persists British Columbia may end up
looking like the Mediterranean, a
region covered in forest ten thousand years ago. "Human activity
has reduced it to desert and scrub
and a few pathetic trees," he said.
Other countries have policies
designed to prevent this outcome.
Wareing cited a system currently
practiced in Switzerland which, he
said, would be ideal for B.C.
coastal rainforests.
"The idea is to imitate nature,"
he said. "In natural systems, the
largest trees eventually fall down.
In the selection forest method, you
harvest them." This ensures permanent coverage on steep mountain slopes because the tree population is like a human one. As old
trees die they are replaced by new
growth.
Wareing said British Columbians have an opportunity to rediscover old ideas about "having
respect for the earth," which he
said is an essential value of indigenous cultures.
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THE UBYSSEY/5 Nuclear winter
is imminent:
Mulroney ignores Arms Race.
By Rob Cameron
Canada's free trade deal with
the U.S. may push the
world closer to nuclear war, says
Pauline Jewitt.
The NDP MP spoke last week
at a conference sponsored by the
B.C. chapter of End the Arms
Race.
Jewett lashed out at Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney, accusing him of making "vacuous" statements and ignoring the arms race
in a Sept. 29 speech to the United
Nations.
Mulroney dismissed the
arms race.
"East-west issues are in hand,"
he said, "leaving us free to devote
our attention to the twin challenges of poverty and the environment."
"The Prime Minister said not
a word about binary (chemical)
weapons. Not a word about nu
clear non-proliferation," she said.
Under the terms of the trade
deal, Jewitt said, the Americans
could label Canadian funding of
environmental concerns "unfair
subsidies." The military and energy are the only two allowable
subsidies left under the deal's
terms, she said.
"The inevitable result must be
the further militarization of
Canada's economy," Jewitt said.
Jewitt said this process has
already started because Canada
has increased its exports of arms
and guidance systems for nuclear
missiles, while its guidelines for
such exports remain woefully inadequate.
"(Canada is) the ham in the
global sandwich," Jewitt said,
caught between the two superpowers.
"Nuclear war would be the ultimate environmental disaster,"
said Peter Ramsey ofthe Vancouver chapter of End the Arms Race,
speaking at the conference. "If we
don't bring a halt to the arms race,
there may not be much environment left to save."
Vancouverites should be especially worried about a nuclear
explosion—two new U.S. Navy
battle groups will soon be based in
Everett, Washington. Each group
has a nuclear-powered aircraft
carrier and a dozen support ships,
all capable of carrying nuclear
weapons. And the nuclear submarine facility at Bangor, Washington, is due for expansion.
These installations would be
prime targets in a nuclear war.
Radioactive fallout would make
the Lower Mainland uninhabitable for generations.
Even worse would be the effects of nuclear winter.
A study conducted in 1986 by
the Royal Society of Canada stated
that "even a small nuclear war
would cause a significant enough
difference in temperature to devastate agriculture" in Canada.
That devastation would occur
even if Canada escaped the effects
of radiation—which isn't likely to
happen, since many crucial US
military installations are located
close to the border.
"Canada's harsh climate and
short growing season make Cana
dian agriculture very sensitive to
climatic changes," the Royal Society report said. "We would be one
of the nations most heavily effected" by nuclear winter.
Nuclear winter refers to a
severe lowering of temperatures
on the Earth's surface, caused
when dust hurled high into the
atmosphere by nuclear explosions
blocks out the sun, and by smoke
and soot from burning cities, forests and fields.
Other experts say nuclear
winter could cause the extinction
of a majority ofthe plant and animal species on Earth, including
man.
Artists capture vestiges of wilderness
By Wendy Waters
Throughout history artists
have painted the wilderness.
On cave walls, totem poles, musical intruments, canoes and canvas, they have captured the divine
beauty of the planet for all to
admire.
Now, many prominent B.C.
artists are aligning themselves
with environmentalists in an effort to preserve one of the few
remaining wilderness areas they
can paint.
In September, several groups
of artists visited the Stein Valley,
about 300 km northeast of Vancouver, near Lillooet. After flying
in to Stein Lake, or driving to the
mouth of the river, they spent
between one and three days capturing their incredible surroundings on canvas.
Every participating artist will
donate at least one original work
to an art show and sale to be held
November 15 to 18 at the Robson
Square Media Centre.
The event, organized by artist
Toni Onley and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, has
been labeled "a success" by organizer Arne Hanson. Hanson said at
least 25 original paintings and
numerous prints will be sold.
Profits from painting sales will
be evenly divided between the
Western Canada Wilderness
Committee and Stein Rediscovery, a camp in the Stein where
young people learn about wilderness, native legends and survival
techniques.
The Wilderness Committee,
an environmental organization
that aims at "conservation
through education," will put the
proceeds towards its campaign to
preserve the Stein Valley.
The expedition had its exciting
moments. Twelve people including three television crews were
forced to spend an unexpected
night at Stein Lake when a blizzard grounded their float plane.
Several people slept in the plane.
Participating artists are Leon
Bibb, Taki Bluesinger, Audrey
Capel-Doray, Victor Doray, Joe
Pleskett, Arnold Shives. Takao
Tanabe, Carol Thompson, Jim
Eiller, Soug Morton, Don Harvey,
and Susana Blunt.
Artists who were unable to
visit the Stein but who are donating work to the auction are Sam
Black, Wendy Dobereiner, Robert
Genn, Don Jarvis, Jack Shadbolt,
Gordon Smith, Sylvia Tait, Jack
Wise and Alan Wood.
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October 14,1988 Holes in ozone layer
increase radiation
By Wendy Waters
I went into the bathroom—it was my
turn at last to take a shower. We had
cycled from Jasper to Whistler, finishing
with a 100-km stretch of gravel on Duffy
Lake Road.
I needed a hot shower.
I took off my bike shorts and dropped
them to the floor. Glancing in the mirror, I
noticed my legs had a distinct horizontal
strip of sunburn and tan from the ankles to
just above my knees. My legs were their
usual near fluorescent white above my
knees—which my shorts had covered.
... high levels of radiation
would kill almost every
organism on the planet.
The contrast shocked me. I had not
been exposed to that much sun. It had
rained a lot on this trip and had been cold.
I wore cycling tights most of the time and
whenever I had shorts on, I applied sunscreen on exposed areas. My sunscreen is a
waterproof number 29 sunblock which
means it has 29 times the normal protection.
The sun had seemed more powerful,
hot and strong than I remembered. Perhaps, I realized, this is a sign of things to
come and evidence that scientists are right
about the consequences of our atmosphere's
depleting ozone layer.
The ultra thin ozone layer protects us
from the sun's harmful rays. Without it,
high levels of radiation would kill almost
every organism on the planet.
Already the rates of skin cancer are
rising—evidence of a disappearing ozone
layer. Several years from now, the number
of cases could be astronomical: the millions
of summer sun worshippers today may be
patients with mutated skin cells tomorrow.
Sunblocks may become useless, and
distinct burn lines from skin exposure may
become commonplace.
At present there are holes in the ozone
layer over the Antarctic and Arctic. These
holes may enlarge in the months and years
to come. If this happens, food crops would
stop growing due to increased solar radia
tion and cause massive global famines.
The average sunblock of the near future could be number 102. New summer
fashion fads could be bodies covered with
fluorescent coloured sunblocking Zinca.
No one knows what will happen—there
is only speculation, but very little of it is
good news.
Depletion of the ozone layer is caused
by chemical emissions into the earth's
atmosphere. The primary problem is gas
emission from chlorofluorocarbons. Products hke styrofoam, aerosol spray cans, and
refrigerant gases create harmful chemical
compounds which are released into the
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to break down, reducing its protective capability.
The products created that emit these
gases are unnecessary. Cardboard and
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styrofoam. Aerosol cans are not a necessity
for life, and there are new refrigerant gases
less harmful to the environment.
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effort to stop chlorofluorcarbon production
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what is happening to the planet. Reflections
of that trip were rarely of hot sunny days.
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the sun? This is a question many may soon
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stand on guard for thee
By Greg Davis
In the face of many environmental threats worldwide, groups of
people have organized to prevent further damage or to increase
awareness of the problems.
Methods employed by various groups range from direct action by
the Friends of Strathcona, who camp out in trees to prevent logging, to
organizations that launch petitions or write letters.
Two groups that are committed to the preservation and correct use
of the environment are Greenpeace and The Western Canada Wilderness Committee. While Greenpeace is often involved in more publicity
campaigns, WCWC concentrates on researching issues and publishing
reports.
Greenpeace took a boat, the Beluga, down the St. Lawrence and up
the Saguanay river to draw attention to the plight of Beluga whales.
Identifying the Alcan plant at Jonquiere, Quebec, as a large source of
toxic pollution, they hung a banner across the plant's chimney.
"As a direct consequence of that action the company admitted the
waste was harming the whales," said Simon Waters, Greenpeace's
direct action coordinator.
"The major cause of Beluga death is the sewage in the Great Lakes
as a whole. Alcan was a polluter, but not the sole cause," Waters said.
The group's efforts, along with other environmental groups, have
led to the establishment of a marine park in the St. Lawrence.
A more provocative approach of direct action was taken in New
York in early September, when a group of Greenpeacers prevented a
barge from dumping toxic sewage. They hung banners off a bridge,
preventing the boat's passage. The event received national media
coverage.
Some people criticize the sensationalist methods Greenpeace may
employ, but Waters said the most dramatic activity gets the most
coverage.
"We find if we write just a report, it will get buried on page 74 (of
a newspaper). If we do a dramatic action it's on page one, and hopefully
the issues will get attention along with the event."
Another environmental crisis that has caused much controversy in
B.C. is forestry. The WCWC is well respected in the environmental
community for its work in this area.
"We are not in any way against logging, but it must be done at a
sustainable level. Present logging in B.C is way beyond this level," said
Ken Lay, director ofthe committee.
Through promoting public education and scientific research, the
WCWC contributes its wilderness knowledge to public, corporate and
political arenas.
"We are realists who believe in balancing the economy and wilderness," Lay said.
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8/THE UBYSSEY
October 14,1988 PERSPECTIVE
Mistreatment has to stop
By Andrea Finch
Reflections in the media testify to
humankind's reckless attitude toward the planet as a whole. Acid rain,
drought, beached medical waste containing
the AIDS virus, the greenhouse effect,
famine and poverty are all related tragedies, if only in their reflection of
humankind's mistreatment of the natural
environment.
They are all part ofthe general "downward spiral" in the progress of our society.
The term "greenhouse effect" is now a
household phrase, and items on the depletion of the ozone layer are now common in
daily newspapers.
The news seems to be going from bad to
worse, and many agree that it is almost too
late to recover from the damage done. Yet no
one appears to be proposing any concrete
solutions, let alone actually doing anything
about these so-called urgencies. This leads
to the assumption that they aren't really
that urgent.
The ultimate danger is that people will
come to view the loss of the Brazilian rain
forest, or the precarious storage of hazardous wastes, as benign concerns—a public
fad to be ignored unless it hits their backyards. The environment will fade away
from the public and political eye.
Public involvement is the solution. It is
simply a question of common sense, planning, and the implementation of a new age,
old fashioned idea now called sustainable
development.
Governments and international organizations now support the concept. In
1982, the United Nations commissioned a
group of experts and political leaders to
collect information through public hearings. Their mandate was to report on the
state of global economic and environmental
problems, and to call for solutions.
The Commission found problems much
more serious than anyone expected. Poverty in Lesser Developed Countries (LDC's)
and over-exploitation of resources in More
Developed Countries (MDC's) combine to
threaten the preservation of global environmental systems. In their 1987 report, entitled Our Common Future, the Commission warned of dangers posed by environmental degradation. They noted its link to
malfunctioning economies, and undertook
to create viable solutions:
First, environmental stresses are
linked to each other. Second, environmental stresses and patterns of economic
development are linked to each other. Thus
agricultural policies may lie at the root of
land, water, and forest degradation. Energy
policies are associated with the global
greenhouse effect, with acidification, and
with deforestation for fuel wood in many
developing nations. These stresses all
threaten economic development. Thus economics and ecology must be completely
integrated in the decision-making and law
making processes. This is not just to protect
the environment, but also to promote development. (Our Common Future, p.37-38).
An example of the general problems
approached by the Commission is the link
between poverty and environment. In
LDC's, the poor are forced to exploit their
surrounding ecosystems in order to clear
land for farming, or cut "forests of wood" for
cooking fuel, and so poverty and environmental degradation are caught together in
a vicious circle.
Our Common Future also deals with
general solutions, such as cancellation of
debt for LDC's, which would alleviate the
economic pressure borne by them.
Canada, though having environmental problems of its own, continues to be
heavily involved in foreign environmental
issues.
Many MDC's like Canada have yet to
acknowledge the severity of their own
environment's state, and thus do not address the problem. Though MDC's are more
willing to accept the call to global environmental improvement, there have not been
any immediate, practical solutions.
Solutions involve change and compromise from all sides. None of these proposals,
however, are unpalatable when placed next
to breathing in toxic waste, or watching yet
another series of lakes die from acid rain.
Some immediate solutions for sustainable development are obvious and simple,
while others require more effort to implement. On an individual level, we can take
steps toward living "sustainable" lives—
that is, controlling our actions so that they
do not, to the best of our knowledge, harm
the environment.
Proposed solutions:
-Getting information: Our Common Future
researches the issues surrounding sustainable development. Individuals can apply it
to their own lifestyles.
-Recycle: It is easy to set up an in-home
recycling system for most materials, including glass, paper, cardboard, metal, and
motor oil (organic waste can be composted).
You have now contributed in two ways to
improving your environment—by decreasing the amount of land used by excess garbage, and by reducing the need for use of
primary resources. Ultimately, this does
not mean a loss of our much-revered production levels, but instead a shift to production of recycled materials.
-Clean up: Replace hazardous household
chemicals in cleaners and detergents with
environmentally safe substitutes. Try biodegradable soap, and use vinegar and
ammonia for basic household cleaning.
-Be a responsible consumer: Limit your use
and purchase of product known to be harm
ful to the environment. Many styrofoam
and aerosol products contain chlorofluoro-
carbons, chemical compounds which are
partly responsible for the hole in the ozone
layer.
-Drive less: Exhaust fumes are a major part
of local air pollution (which recently
reached hazardous levels in the Vancouver
area for those with heart problems). Form
car pools when possible, use clean public
transit more, or use "muscle power"!
-Research your investments: Ensure that
the programs to which you give aid and the
stocks in which you invest comply with the
theme of sustainable development.
-Get involved: do whatever you can to inform and encourage other including your
local and national political leaders. Vote for
governments at all levels which practice
sustainable development.
Forest management needs intelligence
By Ed Pang
I am writing to express my concern for
the future of B.C. forests, forestry and tourism. I'm concerned with the unhindered
logging of our coastal forests. Having travelled along the shores of the Queen Charlotte Islands and the West Coast of Vancouver Island, I have seen too many views
marred by expanses of denuded forests.
These images bring to my mind two
questions: Whatis the likelihood of recovery
in these areas? And what measures are
being taken to ensure that the B.C. experience is not diminished by these eyesores for
both residents and non-residents alike?
Many of the slopes that are logged on
our fiorded coastline are extremely steep.
They are difficult to replant and the soil
washes away easily, leading to other prob
lems such as riverine fisheries. The clear-
cut plains occurring on these slopes reveal
very little signs of recovery because the
physical impact is too extensive.
Visually the impact is stunning as well.
All around Meares Island, inside Nootka
Sound on the West Coast and up to Graham
Island and northern South Moresby in the
Queen Charlotte Islands, visitors are constantly reminded of large-impact logging.
B.C. is known throughout the world for
its magnificent scenery and abundant wildlife. But these qualities are tied together by
a third quality — that much ofthe province
is still pristine. If we continue to tum B.C.'s
accessible and scenic areas into clear-cut
plains we will be diminishing our other
renewable resource — tourism.
It may be crass to suggest that those
concerned about the B.C. experience should
implement the strategy used by our highway ministry where strips of forest are left
alongside major corridors to conceal logging
scars, but if we are serious about cultivating
tourism as a resource then we should realize that logging should not occur in those
places valued by travellers.
Hand in hand with this is the concept of
sustainable development in forestry. If we
want our forest resources to continue we
should realize that clear-cutting and wood
wastage should also not occur. This is not to
say that I want to curtail logging in B.C. as
some people within the forestry community
would like everyone to believe about environmentalists.
The simple equation of logging versus
jobs does not hold water any longer. More
important factors are careful planning between the environment and the forest ministry and industry, and the intelligent sustainable use of our forests.
What needs to happen to set the stage
for healthy forest and tourism industries is
for the people of B.C. to decide what they
want in the long term. We need to realize
that clear-cutting, wood wastage and logging in valued areas are all clear symptoms
of a short-term forest industry which compromises the future.
At present Clayquot Sound and Carmanah Creek are two forest issues on B.C.'s
West Coast. They are part of a continuing
effort to save some of the more spectacular
coastline we are blessed with. I urge concerned readers to write and contribute to
the issue.
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As we race into the 21st century surrounded by disposable diapers, jet airplanes
and space defence systems, the 20th century
threatens to engulf us. Continuing deforestation, desertification and toxification of our
air, land and seas has grossly scarred the face
of our planet. Once a place of infinite beauty
and terrifying diversity, Earth greets the
future with a bleak mask.
Did this happen overnight? It would seem
from the current fanfare all three political
parties are giving to environmental issues
that the Earth did indeed lose its splendour in
the blink of an eye. Undoubtedly, politicians
woke up one day and found polls that said the
primary concern ofthe majority of Canadians
was the health of this planet. Undoubtedly,
our leaders did not develop a sense of environmental conscience from noticing the bitter
taste of the air in some parts of the country,
the bald mountains, the dead fish in dead
lakes, the stench of waste, or the absence of
the universe's natural lights, the stars, above
the city at night.
If they did, they would have acted a long
time ago.
To paraphrase Shakespeare, the fault,
dear Canadians, is not solely in our political
leaders, but also in ourselves. We are too
bound by indifference to act on our concerns.
Just as politicians have jumped on the environmental bandwagon with empty hearts,
so some of that 'majority of Canadians' have
also welcomed this trend only to abandon it
when another cause emerges, which they no
doubt will pursue with the same passion.
We are haunted by the past injustices we
have committed against the planet and, ultimately, ourselves.
Of course, we can change. Right now. As
citizens of Canada, shouldn't we urge our
leaders to adhere to another "free trade"
agreement?
Free the planet (and ourselves): trade ignorance.
theUbyssey
October 14,1988
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Joan Bratty could not believe her eyes as she saw Ian Jack
and Deanne Fisher pour three oil barrels of green sludge
from Lake Ontario into the Fraser River. Katherine Monk
looked up briefly from her terminal to announce to Chris
Weisinger and Mandel Ngan that she was bound for Montreal, and that meant that Joe Altwasser, Laura Busheikin
and Robert Cameron could finish up her stuff while she took
off for the airport. Cathy Lu and Alex Johnson noticed
Katherine's airport dash, and asked Ted Aussem and Greg
Davis whether our City Editor would be back before production on Monday. Robert Groberman assured them that all
would be well, except that Wendy Waters and Dale Enns
would be without spell-check and thesaurus modes. Ed
Pang sighed with relief as he saw his name comingup at the
end ofthe masthead, and neither was Andrea Finch forgotten. All settled down for a long winter's nap, with a glass
of chlorofluorocarbons and a whiff of gamma radiation.
news:
entertainment:
city desk-
photography:
productlon:
Deanne Fisher
Robert Qroberman
Katherine Monk
Mandel Ngan
Chris Wleslnger
Well dear professor, WE have noticed the importance of
environment years before those damn voters.
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Mayor replies
to allegations
in article
Re: Article, "City Suites
Threatened by Mayor," September 23rd, 1988.
If David Levi and Ian
Reid were taking a course at
U.B.C., they would fail.
They would fail because
they just don't do their
homework. Compounding
this deficiency is a predilection to fictional narratives.
These are the facts.
Evictions will not start immediately upon completion
of the Secondary Suite Poll
this Fall. The results ofthe
Poll will determine priorities for a further neighbourhood review by which
residents - not politicians -
will decide if they want to
legalize suites in their
neighbourhoods. If residents decide that they want
suites closed, there will be a
ten year phase out program
to allow tenants and landlords to make other arrangements.
Council will continue to
insist on health and safety
standards for suites. Ifyou
live in an illegal suite, you
are not protected under the
Landlord and Tenant Act.
This Council cares about
single moms, the elderly
and the students who are
utterly vulnerable in illegal
suites. As for Mr. Reid's
sophomoric logic on the
University Endowment
Lands, he should know better. He should know that
Council has called for the
preservation of the U.E.L.
He should know we are
working with the Greater
Vancouver Regional District to secure it as a Regional Park. The truth is,
Mr. Reid does know the
council's position. He does
United Church comes
to grips with sexuality issue
I would like to clarify a comment made by UBC
president David Strangway in The Ubyssey on September 13.
Dr. Strangway says, in reference to the Board of
Governors' decision to deny the use of UBC facilities to
the Gay Games, that "even the United Church can't
come to grips with it (homosexuality).*
The United Church has, in fact, come to grips with
"the issue" and at present is suffering the consequences
of such a decision. Included among the statements made
by the United Church of Canada at the 32nd General
Council held in Victoria last August were the following:
"we confess before God that as a Christian community,
we have participated in a history of iiyustice and persecution against gay and lesbian persons in violation of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
"that the 32nd General Council urge the appropriate
Divisions and Courts of the church to take action to
address the Church's participation in oppression of
people on the basis of sexual orientation."
"that the 32nd General Council urge all levels of government in Canada to guarantee and ensure that the
human rights of their gay and lesbian inhabitants are
fully protected by law...and urge all courts, congregations and appropriate divisions ofthe United Church of
Canada to become active in support of human rights for
lesbians and gay people."
Coming to such a decision has been, and continues
to be, an agonizing experience for many in the United
Church. I do not believe, however, that it can be said
that we haven't come to grips with it.
Brad Newcombe
United Church Chaplain, UBC
know the G.V.R.D.'s position. He chose to tell you
otherwise.
People who aspire to
elected office must be fair,
balanced and factual. Levi
and Reid clearly do not
understand these responsibilities. They are more concerned with generating
headlines and frightening
people than they are with
laying out the facts and discussing public policy. I
would suggest that the electorate send these two candidates back to school if for
nothing else than to complete a course in ethics.
Gordon Campbell
Mayor,
City of Vancouver
Forester
replies
It would seem that
Maureen Scott and Doug
Hopwood are quite ignorant
about other forestry students. This must stem from
their desire to take offence
to something, whether real
or imaginary.
First, the sexist slogans
written on Omar were
against both sexes. Ifs just
that you get more attention
when you complain about
sexist attitudes against
women, don't you Maureen?
Also, although I may not
agree with all ofthe slogans
written on Omar, they are
not serious. By the way
Maureen, how did you read
the sexist bit into my original letter. It only dealt with
some people's hypersensitivities. Although you obviously suffer from the same
problem, don't use it to insult me by insinuating that I
am sexist.
Secondly, Maureen and
Doug seem to think that
there are only a few forestry
students who care about the
environment—that isa load
of crap. There are two kinds
of environmentalists, the
first of which are idealists.
These people go and listen to
a person like David Suzuki
and eat up everything he
has to say just because he is
David Suzuki. Well, unfortunately Suzuki (as an example) can therefore only
put across only one side of an
issue andhave people takeit
as law. Let alone, some of
these people would have
B.C. turned into a park.
Sure, it would be beautiful
but where are we all going to
work and live? Consider the
fact that the forest industry
provides livings for most
people in this province.
Now, foresters would
like to see more parks as
well. They also have to provide wood products for this
province (think of how you
would get through the day
without using something
derived from wood), and
ensure a renewable resource for our descendants.
Foresters must therefore be
realists. This is why we
don't like to take abuse from
people who don't fully know
what they're talking about.
So we make fun of them by
writing slogans like "shear
Meares" and "stumps forever" on Omar. But the stupid idiots take it seriously!!
Obviously they ran short
when they were handing out
senses of humour.
Dave Christie
Forest Harvesting 3
10/THE UBYSSEY
October 14,1988 Wake up Rec
Fac Foe!
Hey Wilfred (The Ubyssey, Sept. 27) wake up and
take a deep breath of reality!
Tm (1) not wealthy, (2) not
titled, (3) from the interior,
and (4) not too impressed
with your close minded
judgement of the proposed
new recreation centre. Why
not lift your head out of the
books for a few hours and go
out and see what this university has to offer. Academic growth does not only
come from a reasonable
grasp ofthe material in textbooks and lectures, it requires an open mind and an
educated insight into this
complex world we temporarily occupy.
Participation in activities with others, recreational activities included, is
one way to develop this open
mind and insight. Aside
from obvious benefits from
recreational activity (increased energy, better concentration), it is a great way
to meet other students with
different backgrounds and
views.
The UBC intramural
program, arguably one of
the best university intramural programs in Canada and
one ofthe many future users
of the new facility, provides
an incredibly varied number of activities to expand
your physical, social and
mental horizons.
And guess what Wilf,
the students that participate in these activities are
just as broke as the rest of
us. Anyone currently participating in intramural
events is all too aware ofthe
chronic shortage of space
that is preventing the program from meeting student
demand. We need the new
centre and the AMS should
be applauded for having the
insight to provide facilities
for future students.
Greg Tereposky
Law 2
AMS lauded
for Rec Fac
Why, why, why, do
people like Andrew Stevenson insist on politicizing a
straight-forward issue like
the referendum on the pro-
Rec Fac financial folly
I am compelled to comment on the upcoming referendum on the student support for the new recreation
facility. My concerns are many, but I think two points
are so important that on their basis alone no student can
support this referendom in good conscience.
Firstly, there already exists on campus an example
ofthe porcine greed ofthe university in using student
funding to provide recreation facilities for student's
use—the pool. The student body suffered an increase in
student activities to pay, in part, for the cost of building
the aquatic center. Now that the aquatic center is operational we, the students, must pay to use it. I recognize that the university, in its benevolence has set aside
certain hours ofthe day for _ l._iient use, but for those of
us who work in order t. pay oufcfees often find those
hours prohibitively in'.onvienient\\ If students have so
short a n cmory that chey are not galled to the point of
nauseab} ■ the idea r /contributing riore money to a fetid,
parasitic a^a_u»»_ oration for something like this they
deserve what they get.
My second point is a question of figures. The article
in the Ubyssey describing the referendum states that
the facility will cost $20 million of which 20% will come
from student activity fees in the form of a $30 levy on
every student for ten years. The university calender
lists the university enrollment as 33,950. 33,950 students times $30, times 10 years equals $10,185,000,
over 50% ofthe cost ofthe facility. I for one would hke
to know what the administration has planned with the
rest ofthe money.
All things considered, any students that vote in
favor ofthe referendum needs their oil checked.
Steve Katz
Grad. Studies.
posed recreation centre? By
signing his letter in the
Ubyssey "NDP Club Member" he attempts to add a
level of partisanship which
is unneccessary, unhelpful
and innapropriate to the
debate over this student
initiative.
In the first place the
Recfac is not some frivolous
"multi-million dollar
bauble" as Mr. Stevenson
contends. The most used
student service at this University is our world-class
Intramural program. Literally thousands and thousands of students participate in it's programs each
year. Every day Intramurals is forced to turn away
individuals and teams who
want to participate but can
not due to the desperate
shortage of gym and field
space.
When compared with
other universities our recreation facilities at UBC
come up short. For example
Carleton, with half our enrollment, has over double
the fitness equiptment,
three times as many squash
courts, and nearly double
the gym space.
As to Mr. Stevenson's
remark that the centre will
only serve "future West Vein
jocks", well that was just
plain silly. For one thing
this is arecreation facility as
opposed to an athletic
centre. If approved the
complex will include dance
studios, play care, concert
hall, meeting rooms and
much needed club space. In
the mean time our Varsity
athletes will benefit from
better access to War Memorial Gym.
If the facility isn't built
"West Van jocks" (your
words) will continue to buy
expensive memberships to
Olympic Fitness and Ron
Zalko's while those students
with lesser means will continue to scramble to find
space in UBC's increasingly
over-crowded facilities.
In my opinion we
should applaud the students who had the foresight
and diligence to push for
this referendum. Sure everything won't be perfect in
academia once it's built, but
for $25 we're getting a hell of
a bargain.
Douglas Eastwood
Law 2
AMS hack says
Rec Fac free
It is my personal belief
that a few ofthe more vocal
detractors of the RecFac do
not have their facts correct
and I'd like to take this opportunity to clarify some
points. First off, they seem
to believe the center will be
restricted to rich kids. For
instance, Andrew Stevenson claims that the facility
will be a place where "West
Van jocks can have an indoor track." This is a fallacy.
If it is for this reason that
students oppose RecFac,
they should realize that
students will not have to pay
for using the facilities.
As a consequence, it
will be a place where the
"poor students" of UBC will
be able to play raquetball,
squash, or simply shoot
some hoops. On the other
hand, if the students were to
vote against the RecFac,
those who cannot afford
memberships to a local recreation center will not have
access to this type of facility.
This would not upset the
rich kids, who would still
have access to the country
clubs which they already
have memberships in.
Do not, however, get the
impression that this is only
a sports complex. This
RecFac proposal would also
include a concert hall, martial arts and dance studios,
an area for dances, and club
offices. The university at
present does not have the
room to keep up with all the
activities the student populace expects their student
councils to coordinate. The
student body needs this
building, or else they will
lose out on valuable (and
cheap) social activities.
Another point is that
$20 a year is not going to
make a substantial difference to an individual's financial situation. If they
were to take $2.50 a month
from their beer fund, it
would pay itself off over the
school year. I do not buy the
fact that there is in fact such
a "large population of underfunded students at this university" who could not afford
this.
Ken Armstrong
AMS rep., Arts
Enough is enough
I would like to encourage everyone to vote against
the proposed AMS sports facility. I feel that all of us who
enjoy the SUB field for picnicing or relaxing will sadly
lose. I also think that we pay enough athletic fees,
especially after the increase last year. Finally, I am disturbed by the process in which the AMS has sprung
complete architectural plans upon us, with no prior
notification of these plans to the UBC community.
I am primarily disturbed with this proposal because
I think the sub field serves many purposes—most importantly it is the central "green space" on campus. During
nice days we all may go picnic, or throw a frisbee around,
or whatever on this field. The value the field has for us
in this way should not be underestimated. The present
plans, which remain poorly publicized, seem to place a
fence or bleachers around this field. It's my fear, given
past experiences in these matters, that this field will be
prohibited to the above uses and reserved for athletic or
intramural teams. Even so, are you going to want to eat
your lunch within fences?
Over the last six summers, graduate students have
played softball in an informal league. These games are
a great source of pleasure to over 400 participants. We
have continually had problems booking fields, in fact the
only field we haven't had trouble using is Maclnnes field.
If this facility is built, we can all bet that it will be unavailable to us. I encourage all the grad students who
were involved with softball to remember our difficulties
and respond to this new development.
This softball league is an example of recreational
activity which has a very different flavour than the
intramural and athletic programs at UBC. There are a
great many of us who prefer to just play ball for the fun
of it without the registration fees, tournaments, uniforms and referees of intramural sports. If the motivation for this facility is to encourage greater participation
in sports then ironically it will do the opposite. It will
remove the place on campus where people play for enjoyment and exercise, at any time, needing no resources
from the university or AMS.
I would hke to turn now to matters of athletic fees.
With my tuition I currently pay$39 AMS fees, $37 athletic fees, and $25 grad student society fees, plus a few incidentals. This is plenty. In fact only last year the
athletic fee was raised by the board of governors, in direct
contravention of a long standing agreement between the
university and the AMS that only the AMS is empowered
to raise athletic fees. During the last year, as reported by
The Ubyssey, the athletic department has given questionable accounting of these new fees. And now we're
asked again to give money to athletics, this time put forward as intramurals. I am surprized at how politicians
rely on the poor memories of their constituents.
Finally, it is disturbing that the AMS has generated
a complete proposal.including architectural model, without keeping us informed about this project's development. Why hasn't there been continual notification ofthe
ongoing ofthe committee which planned this thing in The
Ubyssey? Why is the information we've been given so
contradictory (Maclnnes field will not be lost" -Competition magazine, yet in the model there's clearly a fence
around it)? In addition, none ofthe present AMS officers
specifically proposed building this facility when they ran
for office yet now we are treated to completed plans. This
is the biggest proposal ofthe AMS in the last many years
and it appears to us out of thin air.
I encourage everyone in the UBC community to vote
against this facility. It will limit all of us who enjoy a
grass field, and it involves an unreasonable fee increase
especially in light of past athletic fee increases.
Ed Wishow
Grad Studies
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THE UBYSSEY/11 ENVIRONMENT
Free traders ignore
environmental costs
By Joan Bratty
Modern economic theory is
often criticized for its inability to
incorporate environmental costs
into efficiency calculations. With
the Free Trade Agreement, however, the theoretical steamroller is
out of control.
The same Conservative government which endorsed the
Brundtland Report — a report
which emphasizes the interdependence of environment and
economy—asserts that free trade
is an economic deal and therefore
has nothing to do with the environment. This blatant refusal to recognize the environmental implications of the deal indicates both
lack of respect for the intelligence
of Canadian voters, and an inconsistency which smacks of opportunism.
In 1987, the Conservative
government endorsed the concept
of sustainable development.
"Environmental considerations. ..must be made integral to
economic policy making and planning and a required element of any
economic development proposal,"
said a report from the Council of
Resource and Environment Ministers.
Analysis of the environmental implications of free trade
by non-partisan government
groups from across Canada, summarized by the Canadian Environmental Law Association,
shows:
•Canadian efforts to control
acid rain will be undermined.
Because U.S. law enforces lower
acid gas pollution standards, and
has consistently resisted efforts to
solve the acid rain problem by
reducing sulphur dioxide emissions, harmonization of standards
will mean pressure on Canada to
relax pollution standards;
•pressure on the Canadian
forest industry will increase, hindering progress toward sustainable forest management;
•efforts to solve problems of
household and hazardous waste
disposal will be hampered because
U.S. companies will be able to
challenge Canadian laws aimed at
reducing the amount of waste
produced and encouraging recycling. For example, packaging
accounts for thirty per cent of our
waste stream, but attempts to
reduce this volume through recyclable, reusable or biodegradable
packaging could meet stiff oppos-
tion from plastics manufacturers;
•an increase in pesticide licensing will introduce a flood of
unnecessary and harmful chemicals to the Canadian environment;
•exploitation of non-renewable resources, particularly in the
energy sector, will accelerate in
order to supply the U.S.'s guaranteed proportional share, as Canadian consumption increases;
•pressures on agriculture
will increase, threatening our food
self-sufficiency and resulting in
even worse soil degradation and
air and water pollution as farmers
are forced to maximize short-term
profit at the expense of the environment and long-term productivity.
The water issue has been the
most publicized of the potential
environmental impacts ofthe Free
Trade Agreement. The government has repeatedly said water is
not included in the pact.
Any Canadian law banning
water diversions is useless, for
Canadian law does not override
the trade agreement. Under international law, such unilateral action will not alter the provisions of
a bilateral agreement.
Federal Environment Minister
Vancouver Sun reporter talks with representatives of Citizens Concerned about Free trade. They claim that
The Sun is withholding information on Free trade, and not giving both sides of the story.
Tom McMillan's assurance that
the FTA "does not oblige either
country to sell anything to the
other, least of all water" is
grounded in the questionable
premise that Canada will retain
political autonomy after free trade
takes effect.
Like any other natural resource, water is subject to the
provisions ofthe FTA. Large-scale
exports of Canadian water will be
possible unless natural water is
exempted within the text of the
agreement itself. But the government refuses to do this, although
exclusions for beer and logs were
possible.
Climactic change is expected
to convert much of productive U.S.
agriculture into a virtual desert,
and ever- increasing demand for
dwindling supplies of unpolluted
water makes it a scarce commod
ity of high value. It is not surprising that schemes are afoot to divert water from north to south.
The most well-known of these
is the "Grand-Canal" project
which would make James Bay a
fresh water lake by damming its
exit into Hudson's Bay, and then
sending the water south to the
mid-west by canal. A series of
nuclear reactors would be needed
to pump the water up and over the
Canadian Shield.
The answer to enviromental
concerns over free trade must lie
in the criteria used by negotiators
and decision-makers. Despite
their declared intentions, the government has not integrated environmental considerations into decision-making at the highest level.
Is it any wonder that chief Canadian trade negotiator Simon Reis-
man is an advocate of the Grand
Canal scheme? In his own words
— shortly before his appointment
as trade negotiator — "The fact is
that countries look after their
national interests to the extent
that they are capable of doing so,
and when the devil drives, watch
out. Sooner or later the U.S. is
going to go after our water."
Given the degree of opposition
to free trade on environmental
grounds, it is not surprising the
government is spending $30 million on a pro-free trade campaign
designed to disguise the facts long
enough to fool the public. Polls
prove the state ofthe environment
is a high priority election issue.
Mulroney and friends are legitimately afraid of running an open
and informative campaign, for
they realize that if people find out
the truth about the deal and the
environment, they will reject it.
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