From an essay by Richard B. Anderson, who lectures in Environmental Studies at UC Santa Barbara:
"At the heart of the modern age is a core of grief.
"At some level, we’re aware that something terrible is happening, that we humans are laying waste to our natural inheritance. A great sorrow arises as we witness the changes in the atmosphere, the waste of resources and the consequent pollution, the ongoing deforestation and destruction of fisheries, the rapidly spreading deserts and the mass extinction of species."
Read the rest of it here:
http://www.grizzlegritz.com/worldisdyingbr.html
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Mere man -- with a population swiftly approaching 8 billion -- is making measurable, detrimental, and (I fear) irreversible changes to Mother Nature. On the other hand, maybe those changes will effect catastrophic control of human population, and Mother Nature will be okay.
Either way, I'm nowhere close to peaceful accommodation of reality.
Interesting Vero, that you should publish this quote as California is finalizing plans to cancel the commercial and recreational salmon fisheries for this year. It seems to be the pattern through history that humanity, once it has found a resource it likes, is unable to make earnest moves to conserve that resource until it is gone. Certainly some of us feel grief, we shout and complain and cry about the situation, but the culture as a whole keeps on taking until there is nothing left. I think it’s common for those of us who grieve for the environment to lay the blame on another. It is simple to for us to say: “Look what McDonalds, the Tulalip tribe, and George Bush are doing to our environment!” But let us think now upon what we will tell our grandchildren that we did to stop them.
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