Wait. What? A post about something positive going on with the environment. That's...that's...hunh. Look at that. Man and nature coexisting. Whodathunkit?
I don't know that we need to purposefully run around poisoning our ecosystems. However, I do believe that the earth is here to be used by man. So, with our enlightened understanding now of how things work and how we affect things with change, if there is a way to provide a better integration of the two, so be it.
It's tough for me to get my brain around the government being slow to recognize anything as a wetland, though. I live in Oregon, where literal puddles can be wetlands. :) Okay, slight exaggeration, but you'd be surprised at how close it is around here to that.
Our government has always been quite anti environment. We have one of the 7th Wonders of the World here (The Great Barrier Reef) and yet it will be gone within our lifetime. The government has known that something needs to be done for decades but are too slow to act and too in love with coal.
It's easy to write about doom and gloom though, so I wanted to put up something happy for once.
Okay, so you're talking one of the seven wonders of the natural world. We seem to keep coming up with seven wonders of the world lists. :)
Interesting. Here, there are massive tracts of land in Alaska, Nevada, Utah and elsewhere throughout the western U.S. that are controlled by the federal government for the strict purpose of preserving the land, so they've actually gone the opposite way and taken it away from the states. Not sure what all they actually do with it, or how well they're preserving it.
So, is the run off from the coal mining killing the barrier reef?
I’m never confident that the Feds will be able to do better work than the states. We have a similar problem here.
Run off from coal mining and agriculture combined with warming ocean temperatures is killing the reef. Fixing the problems facing it is a huge challenge that should have started many decades ago. So far all that has been done is further research rather than any real work. It’s quite sad.