🚀 go-pugleaf

I have enjoyed reading ECOLOG and have made only one contribution, "Ecologists
Vs. Environmentalist" which had an interesting result.

I had no intention of touching an "environmental nerve," or appearing "greener
than thou."  But, virtually every fishery on this planet has been destroyed,
the Brazilian rainforest is becoming "farmland", desertification  is gaining
and the human population, for the most part, is out of control with most men
and women spending 90% of thier waking hours trying to survive.  My work
typically brings me into mud up to my knees or into sweltering heat in some
dusty patch of the  desert where poor people are dying  or in central Africa,
trying to stop the deforestation.  Above all else, I too, am an
Environmentalist.  But, I am sad to say that I have seen terrible
environmental disasters of such a grand scale that my heart aches.   Some 30+
trips around the world to some 50 countries has given me a different view
point (I sincerely hope this statement doesn't sound arrogant) and perhaps it
is true that I don't "fit in" anymore to so called "environmental causes" such
as spending 30M to "save" a subsp. of rodent that has adapted to human habitat
and would go extinct in the wild.   To be an environmentalist you need only
one fact - that you like the environment, but to be a "good" environmentalist
.. well that's another question.  Perhaps we need environmental ecologists
and ecological environmentalists.  It is not difficult to find someone who
"likes the environment"  (from hair dressers to auto workers).  It is more
difficult to find people who do not like the environment.  But, with what is
happening to the global environment, it may one day be that most people will
not like our environment, at that point we will only have bad ecologists who
did not communicate well.  If there is any message here, it is that we must
communicate.

Cheers  :-[

ps:  If this is not the right forum for this, my apologies for the
communication.