I would like to pose the following question. I don't have an answer but I think that it is worth thinking about.
Should an ecology forum for a developing country focus on the environmental impact of various technologies?
Perhaps the goal should be economic and educational development even when it is at a short term detriment to the environment. As I stated in another post, there is nothing more damaging to an ecology then an impoverished population.
I thought of this when I remembered someone who once said to me that ?they (people in a area of Mexico) deserve to be poor if they cut down all of there trees?. My reply was, if your children were starving, would you cut down a tree to feed them?
Bruce
Should an ecology forum for a developing country focus on the environmental impact of various technologies?
Perhaps the goal should be economic and educational development even when it is at a short term detriment to the environment. As I stated in another post, there is nothing more damaging to an ecology then an impoverished population.
I thought of this when I remembered someone who once said to me that ?they (people in a area of Mexico) deserve to be poor if they cut down all of there trees?. My reply was, if your children were starving, would you cut down a tree to feed them?
Bruce