November 14, 2003

Stewardship as Survival; Brilliant Nonfiction

Ecologists are now warning us that stewardship of nature is not an altruistic act, but rather a rational one of self-preservation. The goods and services that aquatic ecosystems provide are too central to human well-being for us to get along for any great length of time without them. They perform functions we depend upon and cannot replicate. Technology has not freed us from this dependence, but has blinded us to it. Whether we realize it or not, our staying power as a species depends upon

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