🚀 go-pugleaf

An interesting addition to the discussion - I was amazed to hear on
the BBC that the new 35 hour working week in France had been passed by
members of Frances far left majority, comprised of communists, ECOLOGISTS
and other radicals ?!

Quo vadis ecology ?

> From:          Nicholas Yensen <NyPa@AOL.COM>
> Subject:       Environmentalists Vs. Ecologists
> To:            ECOLOG-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU

> 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.
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