Rosewood Oil ** And Politics

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Butch Owen <butchbsi

Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:38:03 -0800

Rosewood Oil ** And Politics

 

Hey Linda,

 

> Hi Butch,

> I don't mean to step on any toes here, but I have a couple of burnin'

> questions for ya:

 

Go for it .. and its not toe stomping .. its questioning. Folks whut

don't question statements walk around like Zombies. ;-p

 

>> If the world stopped buying Rosewood products (oil is the least

>> marketed product from the trees) there would be no harvest of

>> Rosewood trees .. but there would still be felling of Rosewood trees.

>

> huh?

 

Cause .. they're in the way. When the monstrous Rome Plow type machines

start cutting a swath through the forest they don't spare this or that

type tree. Land in Brazil is being cleared for farming and mining .. at

the same time, folks are making money from forest products. Brazil is

now in a position that they import most of their food products .. that's

not a good position to be in.

 

Like I saw a couple of days ago .. a special on Ethiopia. Having been

there I appreciated it more. Famine is not the issue there .. but not

having enough of the right foods to eat is .. malnutrition can kill as

can famine .. just takes longer .. you suffer longer. Lots of such we

can find in Brazil.

 

Countries that can't feed their populations are generally run by fat

cats who don't have the same problems as the citizens ... the problems

are usually caused by poor gummit policies (if they have any at all) and

not natural disasters .. famine is a man-made disaster .. not natural.

 

Conditions in Brazil and Ethiopia and other countries where folks don't

have a pot to piss in are created by gummit and can only be corrected by

gummit .. sometimes not by the gummits in power. Examples to come to

mind now are Afghanistan and Iraq .. and sometime next year, I think

maybe North Korea.

 

Putting a Band Aide on a sucking chest wound does nothing for a patient.

But the Greenies of the world generally concentrate on the Band Aides

rather than the cause of the sucking chest wound .. can't blame them in

this regard cause they understand their limitations. It often takes a

disaster to cause the world to get off their butts and fix a problem in

another country .. and even then, some will say its not the right of

individual countries to take that upon themselves .. its the mission of

the UN .. an organization that is made up of countries that have many of

the same problems and don't care to fix them .. an organization that has

a Security Council composed of two Communist countries, an Islamic

fundamentalist country, and a couple of European countries that have no

concern for anyone but themselves .. not even for the countries they

left in shambles after the end of the Colonization period.

 

I figure South America is sorta like Africa .. not too much attention is

paid to improving conditions there because they are not great trading

partners of the industrialized world. Like .. the reasons American did

what they did with rebuilding Europe after WW II .. with the Marshal

Plan, was because we saw them as viable trading partners .. but not so

in most South American and African countries .. we leave them to stumble

around and eventually become so bad off that the industrialized nations

can go in and sorta take control. Meantime, the Greenies are trying to

put their Band Aides on the sucking chest wounds. And the little guys

in those countries are trying to make a buck .. anyway they can .. and

selling Rosewood products is a way to make a buck.

 

>> one is so dedicated (as some are .. though not all) to going

>> against the establishment they are either heroic or foolish .. but

>> in either case, they are in harms way to one degree or another.

>

> What social progress has ever been implemented that did not originate

> from someone's " heroic or foolish " actions?

 

I have no objections to heroic or foolish actions .. I'm an old soldier

with a few years experience in combat agin folks who wanted to kill me.

I understand that heroes are normally those who did good cause they were

lucky and had witnesses .. those who did bad and maybe had no witnesses

were just dead.

 

But lots and lots of social progress has been made by wise planning and

well thought out implementation of plans. Legislation is not all bad.

But in America and Europe, good legislation normally results from public

demand .. or lobbying by special interest groups. This kinda falls back

on another post I made where I touched on (but did not place a lot of

emphasis on) the difference betwixt revolution and evolution of thought.

There is a time for both.

 

But as for heroic and foolish actions .. I can't get too excited about

the soldier who charges a fortified position hoping to survive and earn

the Medal of Honor .. or the lady who rushed out in front of the Israeli

bulldozers trying to stop them from leveling some Palestinian terrorist

homes and accidentally got crushed. They took their chances and lost.

 

>> my Rosewood oil is from the heart wood of felled trees .. trees

>> that were NOT (I will bet) felled for the purpose of obtaining EO.

>>

>> and the biggest users of Mysore Sandalwood are in India ..

>

> Ah...so, does that make it OK? (If we don't do it, someone else will--

> sounds like rationalization.)

 

Rationalization it might be to some degree. But what we are talking

about is the import and use of products .. in another post I will make

you'll see my point of what options remain when a Rosewood tree is

felled. And .. what the UN says about the Mysore Sandalwood issue.

 

If we could get all the folks everywhere to agree to doing anything we

could change history. Even turning our electric lights off for an hour

in a day can force change in policy .. if we can get folks to do it.

All it takes to force change is leadership .. and though individual

actions against something one THINKS (though they might be wrong) needs

to be corrected might give us and ours warm fuzzies .. in the grand

scheme of things its gonna go unnoticed.

 

>> Whatever made you think that aromatherapists were more caring than

>> folks who do other things for a living?

>

> Um, maybe the the sensitive whoo-hoo routine?

 

Hawhawhaw .. watch out for the marketing .. it can bite you in the butt.

We have as many snake oil peddlers in AT as we have in the patent

medicine business .. and as many con artists as we find on Sunday

morning TV when those cats ask for $5 in the name of Gawd.

 

> I'm not an aromatherapist--I don't even own a diffuser :-) I'm a

> writer and a soapmaker, and I never could resist questioning the

> status quo. Hope ya don't mind.

> Linda

 

Not at all Linda .. I find it refreshing. Especially on this subject.

I'm not an Aromatherapist either .. I'm qualified but refuse to be known

as one because I'm not too happy with the way its practiced in the USA

or in Europe .. I think the practice of AT has been commercialized to a

point that it stinks .. EOs smell great but the practice of AT stinks.

 

I prefer to be known as one who contract produces some EO, exports and

imports many EO, exercises quality control over all my EO, and likes to

learn factual information about them .. and pass it along to folks who

want to know .. or at least, want to know my side of the issues.

 

I'm also one who uses EO to help me and mine kick Big Bad Bug Butts and

generally stay healthy .. best as we can .. and it usually works well.

 

Wait for the next post .. in a few minutes.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com