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Jendi Reiter's recent editorial ("I Lost My Job to an Owl," February 24) attacking environmentalism seems to me to need some clarification...
...right mark when she points out that the majority of opponents to environmental change are average middle-class American citizens who, like the loggers in the Northwest, are opposed to losing jobs or financial opportunities due to environmental regulations like the law protecting the endangered spotted owl. They feel they have a constitutional right to take advantage of these financial opportunities, a right which is being violated by environmental laws...
...that such activity is explicitly prohibited by the Mosaic law. We would remind Gomes that, even according to the Christian division of that law into moral, civil and ceremonial precepts, the moral law of the Torah retains its divine authoritative force for Christian life. A minister in Gomes' owl sober Calvinistic tradition should be especially mindful of this fact...
...environmentalist laws are greedy industrialists and arrogant Darwinians convinced of Homo sapiens' innate superiority. In fact, the dissenters are more likely to be working-class Americans, like the loggers in the Northwest who are losing their jobs because virgin forests they cut are the habitat of the endangered spotted owl...
...California condor is a prime example of what conservationists have labeled charismatic megafauna, a charmed circle of struggling species that are cute enough or distinctive enough to capture the public imagination. Among the others: the gray wolf, grizzly bear, bald eagle, desert tortoise and, of course, the northern spotted owl. Since the Endangered Species Act, which commits the government to protecting all life forms from extinction, became law in 1973, this select group of animals has received an inordinate share of funding...