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Message: <blockquote data-quote="locustella" data-source="post: 3379185" data-attributes="member: 26257">Previous government did not want to protect Białowieża forest extending national park and today we have results.Previous media were controlled by previous party, new media are  controlled by new party.The same around and putting everything on each other.Edited later:There are some funny elements in all those disputes over Białowieża forest, for example it looks like forestry authorities sometimes would like to subordinate the appearance of the wilderness to the aesthetic taste of man, so the forest should be almost cleaned of dead wood, trees should almost stand at attention like soldiers in the army. This is nonsense, there are some similarities between aesthetic tastes of individuals belonging to given species (like H. sapiens), but there are so many aesthetic tastes as people on the Earth and they change with their age etc. Such thing like beauty and other feelings and even physical image of the surrounding world don't exist objectively, because everything arises in our consciousness. I am sure hat spiders have completely different feelings and overall image of the world around them than people looking at the same things. And some beings can't see, they use different senses and their worlds are not comparable to our world at all, perhaps even impossible to imagine.Forestry authorities want to treat Białowieża forest as managed forest, not natural one and excluded from economic activity, but don't want to admit this and lie that they do what they do for it's protection.Similarly hunters very frequently claim that they shot animals for their protection.This everything is very belayed and would be very funny if weren't so tragic.There is obviously kind of fellowship between foresters, hunters and naturalists, because some of other people would like to destroy the nature completely. So at long distance naturalists, foresters and hunters are similar.</blockquote>

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