Don't agree with you there. There are scads of ranchers, hunters, fishermen, foresters, and even heavy equipment operators who are passionate about what they do on the land. One could call them environmental zealots. Certainly what I do would fit. But at the same time I'm taking to task the people to whom you clearly do refer. The key difference between the two is that most of the former recognize the need for management, while the latter think unattended "Nature" is self optimizing. Little do they realize that a world operating under "survival of the fittest" necessarily results in planetary death. Darwin was wrong in generalizing a special case beyond its useful limits.
Don’t agree with you there. There are scads of ranchers, hunters, fishermen, foresters, and even heavy equipment operators who are passionate about what they do on the land. One could call them environmental zealots. Certainly what I do would fit. But at the same time I’m taking to task the people to whom you clearly do refer. The key difference between the two is that most of the former recognize the need for management, while the latter think unattended “Nature” is self optimizing. Little do they realize that a world operating under “survival of the fittest” necessarily results in planetary death. Darwin was wrong in generalizing a special case beyond its useful limits.
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Excellent point.
I agree that the groups you’ve mentioned shouldn’t just be steamrolled by corporate dollars, over their historic usage & maintenance of various lands.
I was mainly referring to an urbanized population that has been attacking rural economic interests since I was a kid in the 1970’’s.
Thanks, for pointing out my blindspots.👍