Well said David Brinicombe, and here here!!
Vicki Powys
On 13/11/2014, at 4:01 AM, [naturerecordists] wrote:
>> This is so unbelievable and infuriating I can't begin to express my
> opinion!
>
> I can. It was within my fairly long lifetime and after WW 2 that we
> really became aware of what we have done to our planet. Rachel
> Carson's
> 'Silent Spring' kicked off the ecological movement, drawing
> attention to
> the huge number of species we are losing, resulting in a demand for
> reserves which - some people need to be reminded - are areas kept
> inviolate so at least we have some point of reference for how the
> World
> used to be.
>
> We are presiding over the greatest species mass extinction seen
> since the
> death of the dinosaurs. It took 60 million years to get back all the
> species we are now exterminating over the course of a few hundred
> years.
> 60,000,000 years to create, 200 years to destroy at the present rate.
>
> Reserves are reserved, that is what the word means in English.
> Reserves
> are not leftover bits of the Earth which can be deployed for war
> games,
> exploitation, mining, extraction, industry and cities. Preservation is
> what an irreplaceable Nature Reserve is all about, it is not waste
> land.
>
> Natural reserves are a tiny fraction of the Earth's surface set
> aside as
> a reference of what the Earth used to be, not derelict areas, not
> commercial assets, just rare example of a lost world just left to do
> what
> comes naturally. When their ecology is lost, lt is lost for all future
> generations.
>
> Describing damage to these reserves as "minimal" is not acceptable.
> There
> are huge areas which are not set aside as sacrosanct reserves of
> what we
> have destroyed elsewhere. These small areas are a heritage for future
> generations and as such are irreplaceable. It is akin to destroying
> the
> Mother who gave birth to our own species.
>
> David Brinicombe
>
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