June 2, 2000

Environmentalism of the Mind; Ranchers as Allies in Conservation; Human and Natural Time Scales; Protecting Ordinary Places

Perhaps the greatest problem the environmental movement will have to face lies not in the external world but in the heads of the American people. Although the great majority of Americans support environmental goals, that support may be shallow among many or most of them. Many people seem to have only a loose grasp of the dimensions of the problems and show little willingness to make any but the slightest changes in lifestyle. The very complexity of the emerging