Hovering Kestrel: You're gonna need a better trap than that.

Saturday, July 20, 2013

Here's a neat article about gorillas that have learned to dismantle snares set by bushmeat hunters.
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2013/07/19/young-gorillas-seen-dismantling-snares-to-protect-their-own/

Ecology and Philosophy

I should like to submit to you a simple, basic thesis--that what we are accustomed to calling the "ecological crisis" is not a product of a conflict between human needs and the needs of nature but of a flawed perception of what our needs in truth are. It is, I believe, a crisis of our humanity rather than one of nature or technology, and so requires not only technological but also humanistic answers.
In saying that, I do not in the least mean to question the crucial and urgent ecological importance of technology. It seems to me beyond question that we need urgently to address the question of the most effective use of raw materials, of the most effective means of conservation and recycling as well as of environmentally friendly ways of purifying and disposing of our waste.
However, noble as such efforts are, I believe they will prove futile if the overall orientation of our civilization bears within it the destructive contradiction of infinite expansion and finite resources. Thus it seems to me no less important for those charged with caring for humankind's long-range dwelling on this earth to raise the question of our goals--what is really important for us as humans, what is the aim of our civilization and what is our place in the economy of nature. Or, in time honoured philosophical terminology, I believe we need also to raise the question of what is the place of humans in the cosmos...

Erazim Kohak

Hovering Kestrel

Saturday, July 20, 2013

You're gonna need a better trap than that.

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