On 09 Aug 2004 15:03:17 GMT, [email hidden] (Stephen Baker) wrote:
..MV says:
..
..>Name ONE worthwhile thing you have ever done.
..
..Ah, Mikey, you are looking for all sorts of public-spirited things to appear
..here, aren't you, like creating wilderness regions, etc. Well, the nearest I
..have got to that is teaching hundreds of kids how to sail
Hmmm. All sailboats have motors to get out of the mooring. Sailboats also expand
the area of land & water that humans can invade -- like mountain bikes.
(and a few adults,
..too) thus stopping them from becoming stinkpotters and polluting the seas.
..I helped to organise the annual "Odyssey of the Mind" and "Destination
..Imagination" competitions here in RI for eight years.
What's that?
..On a personal level, I have designed sailing boats that are raced around the
..world single-handed. You have no idea what a worthwhile thing it is, on a
..personal level, to step onto the deck of something that you have created from
..scratch.
Must be nice. I once created a table, but I don't dare step on it.
..So what have YOU done? And I don't count "trying" to do anything or "fighting"
..anything....
..
..Steve
Educated the world about various environmental issues, such as the harm that
roads, the presence of humans, & mountain bikes do. Also helped Synanon
Foundation get hundreds of alcoholics, drug addicts, & juvenile delinquents back
on their feet. Avoided building any habitat-invading boats or other vehicles.
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I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"😉. Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)