SINCE ALDO LEOPOLD wrote these words over 70 years ago, our society hasn't learned a damn thing about ecological equity.
We still demand economic growth that destroys Nature. We still regard Earth as something we own. We still trash natural ecosystems and the animals and plants therein and let the "naturalists" try to save them. And we now suffer the consequences of our callous ignorance on a global scale that even Leopold did not foresee.
It's amazing that we still have to explain to others what Leopold was telling society long ago. If they even heard of him.
All I hear on the news today is blah, blah, blah about our "economy" with total ignornance of the fact that it continues to take Nature down.
It is enough to put one in a bad mood. And be even more determined never to give up. We love our Earth too much for that.
Thank you all for being here on Scale Down.
Posted earlier today on Scale Down’s Facebook page.
Hang in there, Tony! I get down about it all too. I think there are some influential people slowly changing people’s idea of nature. One such is Ian McGilchrist, whose most recent book is “The Matter with Things.” He is a philosopher and psychiatrist who studies the left-right brain hemispheres and wrote about that in his last book “The Master and His Emissary,” where he argues our culture is left-brain dominated, thus we don’t see reality (the natural world outside our heads, including our own bodies) accurately as it actually is. He has a website with various videos of interviews, etc, and lots of videos on YouTube. He is offering lots of great content! I think you would like him a lot.