Re: our water, our bodies, our subject lines

[Pat <pjgehrke@ecst.csuchico.edu>]

On Wed, 1 Feb 1995 jhboyle@acs.harding.edu wrote:

>  
> In response to Mike Berman:
>  
> Maybe I miscommunicated.  In order to get a link back to the resolution you
> either have to define people as an ocean resource (through creative use
> of the word resource) or by identifying the relationship between people and
> oceans as a resource (again, creative word usage, as Chico does).  

CORRECTION: This resolution looks to Earth's ocean resources. Where is 
the resource? The Earth. Who owns the resource? The Earth. Ocean is a 
limiter of TYPE of resource, not source or possessor.

Simply put, the Earth is all of us, living and non-living. The resource 
is a relationship. We specifically turn to the relationship with the 
ocean since it is the worst off (terrestrial or aviary ecosystems for 
some reason are more *real* or *connected*.) Even many deep ecologists 
seem to have trouble with the idea of including the ocean and its 
inhabitants in their philosophies (see Langdon Winner on Scandanavian 
whaling and ecologists.) 

I do not find this "creative word useage." To one who starts from a 
biocentric view or from a Heideggerean/Deep-Ecological view it may be 
*more* intuitive than the concept that the Earth's ocean resources are 
sub-sea-bed disposal areas or edible fish stocks. All depends on what 
angle ya' see it from.

-/-Pat Gehrke
-/-CSU CHICO

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