You ask the average person or even a scientist, they don’t even know what three or four of those are. There are quite a few of them. I’ll give you one example. If you wanna determine whether we should drill for oil up in the Arctic, you have to know… Read More
So now, if that’s not a strong argument for learning how the earth works and keeping wildlife, wilderness and open space for the sake of humans in existence, I don’t know what is. The bigger picture, what happens when we humans overcrowd beyond a certain point and we start taking… Read More
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It’s never talked about. Read More
I’m amazed. I’m really, really positive and happy that they finally come up with this. Every major social tragedy on this planet from Haiti, to Somalia, to Afghanistan, to Iraq are happening because we have destroyed our natural resources in those areas, so that you have having have nots. The… Read More
Most of the trees are cut down. There used to be wild pigs in Haiti, and we brought down in all our fancy knowledge. We brought down some of the hybrid pigs that we grew up here. They all died down there. They couldn’t go out and root up insect… Read More
It’s happening in Asia right now. And it’s all because we, humans are capable of destroying the natural resources in an area very quickly. In Asia… In Afghanistan, that’s a good example. That place has been trampled by human beings for thousands of years. And it used to be a… Read More
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