tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post729780828234443300..comments2023-10-21T07:53:38.322-05:00Comments on (It's a ...) Micro World (... after all): Bio-diversity: Why does no one seem to care?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-71061713503054928222010-04-30T15:13:22.529-05:002010-04-30T15:13:22.529-05:00Thanks for this topic. Biodiversity has beem my bi...Thanks for this topic. Biodiversity has beem my biggest anxiety, more than climate change (though know how they are related). As a lay person, I take comfort in my support of the Southwest Center for Biological Diversity. I'm also involved in a lot of local issues too. It's a good way to be called an "environmental wacko extremist who's trying to shut the country down." I think I'll put that on my card.<br />jgjghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00588440067862480858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38049554.post-30800345821611193412010-04-30T10:04:57.975-05:002010-04-30T10:04:57.975-05:00The short answer - and I work this problem nearly ...The short answer - and I work this problem nearly daily in some form or another for my agency - is that the scientific considerations are almost always looked at in a manner that is divorced from human economic activity. What I mean is that when an agency looks at imposing a marine protected area or other management action, it is often compleed legally to do so based on scientific evidence, with out any equal compelling reason to look at how to pay for the reserve, or how to provide an alternate economic activity for those displaced by the reserve. So on the ground, stakeholders balk, politicians deny funds, and more papers get published in Science Magazine that cry the alarm.<br /><br />Thus, my long standing belief that we need more generalists, not more technicians.Philip H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12049875206738422083noreply@blogger.com