[Coral-List] a plea
Benjamin Greenstein
bgreenstein at cornellcollege.edu
Sun Feb 10 10:03:49 EST 2013
Colleagues,
I recently received a note from a person who has been working for an
NGO focused on marine conservation. Their message ended with the
following passage, and I secured permission to share it with the list.
Many of us have experienced similar frustrations. What words of wisdom/
hope might you have that I may pass along? Thanks.
Ben Greenstein
In the midst of this I am left wondering if there is any hope and I am
extremely frustrated feeling as though I can't make a difference.
What do you think the best approach is to conservation issues like
this? How do you inspire people to care? How do we act fast enough
when all of our political systems are programmed to make slow, careful
decisions...and why do we require DATA to prove what is so obvious to
the ordinary observer...that forests, coral reefs, ocean, desert,
marshes, wetlands, salt ponds, ice caps, tundras and every ecosystem
in this biosphere is in serious need of some tlc.
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Benjamin J. Greenstein, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of the College
Professor of Geology
Department of Geology
Cornell College
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