[Coral-List] a plea
drew sulock
drew_sulock24 at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 16 15:54:25 EST 2013
Along the lines of motivating ourselves. I have stumbled upon a brand new FB page called Environmental Eyes. Simply another forum to share information and photos of environmental issues in our communities. Check it out, and please share photos from your work in your locales. It seems very new so needs content, but appears to be a great way for us to visually share what we discuss here on coral list.
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From: "frahome at yahoo.com" <frahome at yahoo.com>
To: Benjamin Greenstein <bgreenstein at cornellcollege.edu>; "coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov" <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] a plea
How to inspire people? Let's inspire ourselves first. My suggestions: stop attending shopping malls and supermarkets, sell our car, change to a diet based on food low in the food chain locally grown with sustainable methods, planting fruit and nut trees and bushes, think of switching from being full time scientists to be "part-time scientists and part-time sustainable farmers", get involved in your local community/neighborhood and lead by example.. We do not need any more data on how bad things are or about how corals reproduce, though we do need some "applied research on the field" on sustainable farming (and sheltering).
Let's start with what is within our reach.
Francesca
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From: Benjamin Greenstein <bgreenstein at cornellcollege.edu>
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:03 PM
Subject: [Coral-List] a plea
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
600 First St. SW
Mount Vernon, IA 52314
US
PH: 319-895-4307
FAX: 319-895-5667
WEB: http://www.cornellcollege.edu/geology/greenstein
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