The Plowboy Interview
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PLOWBOY: Would you say that you are
optimistic about the near or far future?
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SNYDER: Well, as I said before, I believe
that every day is its own day, but I am optimistic
about the far future, because Universe the Mother can
certainly take care of everything quite neatly. And nothing
human beings can do in the long run can amount to that
much. But I'm pessimistic about the future in the short
run, since it would be a great failing for this smart and
well-informed human race of the twentieth century to end up
being biologically superdestructive. It should be seen as
the real challenge of the world to be able to maintain all
of our marvelous scientific knowledge and technology to the
point of guaranteeing human rights on some wide scale
and guaranteeing that no species becomes extinct.
Extinction of species is a sign of great failure; it's a
great treachery to the history of organic evolution.
PLOWBOY: It could almost serve as a modern
definition of sin.
SNYDER: Well, at least of what constitutes
error. Practically speaking. however, we'll all
have our work cut out for us in just trying to keep the
best of whatever's going, going!
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What's Your Bioregion?
The following directory is an abbreviated list of
bioregional organizations, including those with existing
councils and those serving as contact centers for future
organizing. A more extensive listing-which includes foreign
contacts-i, available for $2.50 postpaid from TRANET, P.O.
Box 567, Rangeley, ME 04970.
EXISTING CONGRESSES
Ozark Area Community Congress: Box 129, Drury, MO 6563N (ht
id its fourth congress in the fall of 1983)
Great Lakes Bioregional Congress: P.0. Box 24, Old Mission,
All 49673 (convened for the first time in October of 1983)
Driftless Bioregional Network (the Upper Mssissippi River
Basin): c/o Spark Burmaster, Rt. 1, Box 77A, Chaseburg, WI
54621 (held its second gathering in the spring of 1984)
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