From dmatrix@europa.com Mon May 1 08:22:02 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx4.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA11490; Mon, 1 May 95 08:22:01 -0700 Received: from atheria.europa.com by mx4.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA26311; Mon, 1 May 95 08:22:00 -0700 Received: by europa.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.15) id ; Mon, 1 May 95 08:21 PDT Message-Id: Date: Mon, 1 May 95 08:22 PDT X-Sender: dmatrix@199.2.194.10 (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: consbio@u.washington.edu From: dmatrix@europa.com (Gretchen Oosterhout) Subject: Re: Ecosystem Management with... Dennis Palmini wrote: > Thus I could argue that the Wildlands projects are critically important for >several reasons: a) to provide a coherent and inspiring vision of what could >be, b) to provide motivation against the "practical types" who stand around >an sucking their thumbs under the sign of economic impracticality, c) to >provide a well-thought out plan for reform and redirection of economic >development. Is there any reason the Wildlands projects might be important other than for benefitting HUMANS, particularly H. economicus? What about protecting a few areas' natural biodiversity from human devastation just because it's the morally (yes, I know, that's a human construct, or at least it should be) right thing to try to do? No? Well, ok, here's a human-based reason: what about supporting Wildlands projects because one of these days it might turn out that even we humans turned out to need biodiversity for survival after all? ------------------------------------------------------ Gretchen Oosterhout, Decision Matrix, Inc. EMai1: dmatrix@europa.com Voice/fax: (503)266-8692 >"Natural selection favors the forces of psychological denial." -- Garrett Hardin .