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A brilliant idea, a gift from heaven
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Posted on Apr 27 2008
The opportunity to create a NMI Marine National Monument (PEW Monument) is a brilliant idea, a gift from heaven at an exceptionally dark moment in time for the CNMI. It is hard to imagine how anyone could possibly be against it. For starters, the creation of such a monument would instantly begin changing the world’s perception of Saipan from a alien sweatshop full of prostitutes and nonresident workers to world class eco-friendly tourist destination.
A place where we care about our planet. The arguments against the PEW Monument which have appeared in letters to the editor in your paper and which have been made by some government officials in reporter’s articles miss the point.
And this is the point: Humans and their activities are slowly killing the world we live in and the CNMI has been presented with a golden opportunity to save a tiny part of the planet. Saving any part of the planet that we can is the right thing to do period. All the silly arguments made against this proposal pertaining to who gets to manage (exploit) the resources found in and around the islands in the future are part of the problem—not the solution.
[B]Wesley Bogdan[/B] [I]Papago[/I]
