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Because they, too, know better? I get your reasoning, but with equal position one could argue that in the clear retrospective light of our failures, theirs would be a larger one, by both proportion, and foreknowledge of its effects. Its a sticky wicket because nobody has good economic incentive to save it right now.

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The conclusion of "old things must be preserved" leads to a sticky wicket as you call it. Maybe it is the wrong conclusion. What if we started instead with a question: "What is the best use for this land" and then work out from there.

"When the sage points to the moon, the fool looks at his finger".

The argument is most assuredly not that "all old things must be preserved". Rather it's that this old thing should be preserved.

The fact that the forrest is old is incidental. It's only relevant because it explains that we can't just pull a new primeval forrest out of our asses.

But you knew this.

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