X-Message-Number: 1445
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:58:49 EST
From: Garret Smyth <>
Subject: CRYONICS Environmentalists and recruitment

When it comes to environmentalists there are a variety of shades of
green. Frequently it is the dark green ones that hit the headlines,
because extremism sells papers. However, not all environmentalist are
dark greens - don't believe all you read in the papers. I don't
particularly want to live on a planet with hardly any diversity of life,
but all the lefties in the green movements put me off joining. The
discussion about greens should not be "Should we recruit
environmentalists" because if they want to join we should welcome them.
There is a very good reason for this. We are a tiny organisation. We must
expand or die.

If someone signs up then they de facto agree on enough fundamental
issues to be suspended. There is no reason to discriminate against
someone just because they are environmentally minded. If you ran a health
insurance plan would you suggest greenies shouldn't be recruited? (Alcor
is just a rather experimental high tech health care system in some
peoples' view) What if I were to join Friends of the Earth? Would you
suggest my membership of Alcor be taken away?

The real question of this thread is "Is it worth the effort involved in
specifically targeting environmentalists". Personally I feel that to
target all of them probably wouldn't be worth it, but a subsection (eg
those who are also into sci-fi / technology etc) might be.

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