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Tango01 | 06 Sep 2018 3:46 p.m. PST |
…animals have lost "In Feral, his book proposing a re-wilding of our natural environment, George Monbiot refers to Shifting Baseline Syndrome as a major cause in our misperception of what is ‘natural'. As individuals, we lack a multi-generational perspective. Our environment is in its ‘natural' state when we are young, or so we assume. The only environmental destruction we really notice is what occurs within our own lifetimes. Humanity's baseline for what is natural keeps shifting with every new generation, clouding our view on longer processes of environmental damage and degradation…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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StoneMtnMinis | 06 Sep 2018 4:22 p.m. PST |
In reality the Federal government owns 28% of the land mass of the USA. The ten states they own the most of are: Nevada : 84.5% Alaska: 69.1% Utah: 57.4% Oregon: 53.1% Idaho: 50.2% Arizona: 48.1% California: 45.3% Wyoming: 42.3% New Mexico: 41.8% Colorado: 36.6% link I think the writer has a definite agenda that he is pushing. Dave |
Private Matter | 07 Sep 2018 5:17 a.m. PST |
Yes Dave, he does have an agenda. His agenda is to point out how much land has been lost to development and decline of habitat suitable to certain species of wild animal. And yes, you are correct that the federal government owns 28% of the land mass of the USA. It is very obvious that wilderness habitats have declined due to population growth. Also, just because the land is owned and managed by the government doesn't mean that it is managed to the benefit of all species. My point is one that of course the author has an agenda as does the author of the link you posted. And, both are presenting facts and both can be informative. Just because an author has an agenda (or in other words; trying to make a point) doesn't mean an article is worthless. |
StoneMtnMinis | 07 Sep 2018 7:58 a.m. PST |
True, but all I cited were provable statistics. And, 98% of all life forms on this planet are now extinct. Life is a dynamic process and life adapts to changes or it perishes. You can't freeze the the world in a static state. Just like the climate, it always changes and moves from one extreme to the other. Systems are never in perfect balance nor static.. |
Private Matter | 07 Sep 2018 9:37 a.m. PST |
True, you can not keep the world in a static state, but there are ramifications to our actions that must be considered. Thee are ways to minimize the damage/change we create. I want my grandkids and their kids to be able to enjoy the wilds as much as I did. |
Cacique Caribe | 08 Sep 2018 2:29 p.m. PST |
Why defend an environmentalist writer who presents partial facts and figures, and does so with a clear intention to mislead? Some people just love to constantly put mankind into a defensive corner, guilting us over everything, and they usually have hidden goals for it that have little to do with the environment they are purportedly defending. Anyway, the truth of the matter is that needs of people outweigh the needs of every single obscure flora and fauna that have no major role on ecology in general or on our economic resources. Fact … People matter more, way more, plain and simple. So, as human populations grow around the planet, animals that cannot cope will go extinct. That's reality. If scientists are to be believed, then more than 95 percent of species that have gone extinct did so long before man came along. So let's not put everything on man. Extinction is natural. And Nature does not try to tug on our idealistic child-like emotions, or ethics or grand moral principles either. We should do what all other species on earth do … survive and spread, and adapt to new territories and tasty prey in the process. We ARE Nature. Dan
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