02-06-2007, 06:32 PM
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"Mike Vandeman" <mjvande@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits to Humans!
> Michael J. Vandeman, Ph.D.
> October 12, 1997
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> "Of what avail are forty freedoms, without a blank spot on the map?"
> Aldo Leopold
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> "For every living creature [including humans!], there are places where
> it does not belong." p.251 "I believe it is a public responsibility to
> safeguard what we can of wilderness before the great push of man's
> numbers; and to safeguard with it ... the shy wild ones that need
> man-less expanses in which to thrive." p.262. Paul L. Errington, Of
> Predation and Life
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> "I confess to further disquieting thoughts as to how much moral right
> man actually has to regard the Earth as his exclusive possession, to
> despoil or befoul as he will. Man has or should have some minimal
> responsibility toward the Earth he claims and toward the other forms
> of life that have been on the Earth as long as or longer than he has."
> Paul Errington, A Question of Values, p.153.
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"The great push of man's numbers," does not include the random visitation of
man to a habitat. The author, here, was trying to convey the idea that we
need to set aside space that development efforts will not be allowed to
reach.
> The Problem
The "problem" is that you are taking a good idea out of context and cramming
it into your idea of utopia.
<snip rest as your repeated blatherings that are not based on facts>
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