05-24-2016, 04:11 AM
quote:I've always wondered what is so damaging about human waste when, in the ultimate analysis, the whole world pees in the ocean. Mammals and fish, invertebrates and reptiles, but people only find human waste to be a problem. How can that be.
Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
Maybe If our Blnr or Dlnr divisions were freed up from this TMT project
gypsy -
I too am concerned about the resources of the DLNR getting stretched thin and preventing them from focusing on the core of their mission, environmental protection.
For instance, what would you think if a large, unauthorized group of people suddenly set up an illegal encampment of tents, tarps, and other non-biodegradable substances in an environmentally fragile area, requiring the DNLR bring in people, officers and equipment from all around the island to monitor and contain the intruders? Wouldn't the trespassers be, in your own words, "causing huge environmental changes and changing the way we will live?" And not for the better, as you point out in your previous comment that when too many people visit an environmentally sensitive area such as reefs, or mountains for instance, and in the process of swimming, walking or moving about they inadvertently or purposely move rocks that may be home to hermit crabs, snails or in the case of a mountain, small insects? And what about large numbers of people snorkeling in a reef wearing sunscreen toxic to sea creatures and who rather than interrupt their enjoyment of viewing the colorful fish relieve themselves in the water, which also occurs when visitors to a mountainside are miles away from a single rest room facility?
Oscar Wilde's Last Words: "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
The great plains are strewn with the unmarked graves of fallen pilgrims, yet nobody says that land is too "sacred" to be used - farmed etc.
If there are actual gravesites in the area of construction, move them out of harms way, and lets get back to moving forward (or at least as most people see it).