The third argument is, this is very powerful and I’m pretty amazed at some of our organization. There’s a group called the International Conservation. It’s called ICC. Coalition. And they came out. They had me as the master of ceremonies at a big convention in Washington. And the theme was,… Read More
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All the creeks were industrialized and pretty well polluted. No matter what your material wealth is in America, if you have the love of nature in your heart, and you can take your family up a creek and have a picnic that adds substantially to your quality life as a… Read More
If you erase that, you’re gonna have a lot of people that don’t even understand why the natural world is important to us?… Read More
And I could get more into that. Read More
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We don’t do that in our scientific world. We don’t talk to the public. The politicians don’t even talk about it. Quality of life is something that’s different for different cultures around the world. But in our culture, we have to start questioning, is quality of life just based upon… Read More
Is that quality life, playing golf?… Read More
Or does it have something with visiting the natural world, which is our basis of reality. And I wanna make it a little side issue about that. One of my personal grieves I’ve found out that we humans are the only species on this planet that can program ourselves with… Read More
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Tourism, ecotourism and nature-based tourism is one of the most powerful generators of revenue. You go visit the Olympic National Forest or the North Georgia Mountains and the money you spend filters down into the restaurants, the motels into the system. And that’s money that tourism generates. Tourism generally in… Read More
So number one argument that somebody will understand probably is based on the visitation of the natural world and what we call nature-based tourism. The second most powerful argument for saving open space, wildlife and wilderness, in my opinion, is something called quality of life. Read More
How many times have you ever heard somebody even discuss what is quality of life?… Read More
Well, here’s the challenge, that survey that they did a couple of years ago is one of the reasons why from a county commissioner to the president of United States, during their political campaigns, the most important people in our society, there is no platform that says how we treat… Read More
Because nobody’s telling them how they can contribute and why all this is important?… Read More
Why open space is important to humans, the conservation groups and the zoological parks aren’t talking about this. Now, I may be… Who am I to come up with some arguments, but if I can I wanna say three arguments, why it’s important. And I think this will is one… Read More
I’ve worked on what are the arguments for saving wildlife, wilderness and open space?… Read More
What are the arguments that you can go to somebody working for a living, trying to feed their family?… Read More
Why would they be interested in open space, wildlife and wilderness?… Read More
You can learn about biodiversity and all that. But here’s the difference. (clears throat) In my opinion, I’ve come down to see the difference between education and some of the information that we’re so good at. Information is not necessarily education. Here’s the difference, information is when you sit on… Read More