Comments on: They shoot seals, don’t they?

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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:01:42 +0000

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By: pamf

pamf — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:14:26 +0000

Hi Jeffrey – Thanks for your comment, and for linking to my blog. As you’ll have seen, I linked back to yours and I follow it with interest. You are quite correct concerning how “economic progress” seems to trump everything, hence the state we find ourselves in, both environmentally and otherwise. You would think that recent events might be teaching the policymakers something, but it remains to be seen. And it’s ironic, of course, that tourism (which is part of the economy after all) will suffer when there is less wildlife to see. As Rachel Carson so wisely said, “But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

By: Jeffrey Fabiszewski

Jeffrey Fabiszewski — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:25:12 +0000

Hi Pam—I always look forward to reading your blog entries. I live in a part of Florida, USA where tourism generates the majority of our revenue. People come to enjoy the manatees/seabirds/dolphins/big game fish/and plants. Unfortunately, in the pursuit of improving economics our policy makers are creating policies that are damaging the things tourists are paying to see. It is madding. I think Pope John Paul II said it best that “Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles”. The pursuit of profit is killing what people yearn to see. Keep up the good work. —Jeffrey Fabiszewski