Subscribers may be interested in the excellent Los Angeles Times
report "ALTERED OCEANS," a five part series on the "crisis in the
seas" by Kenneth Weiss (2006a,b,c,d) & Usha Lee McFarling (2006),
with photography and video by Rick Loomis at
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special>,
or more compactly <http://tinyurl.com/hql49>. Click on "About this
Series" for information on the production staff.
"In the coming weeks and months, I will be writing about ways to ease
the stress on the seas.. . .What should our government leaders do to
address these issues? How can the United States lead by example, so
that developing nations with BURGEONING POPULATIONS can learn from
our mistakes rather than repeat them?. . . . . . "
And speaking of "burgeoning populations," a search for "population"
in the 191 posts online as of 06 Aug 2006 13:42:00-0700 indicated
that only 12 posters (6.3%) merit inclusion on the "Bartlett Honor
Role" for pointing to the root cause of the problem - human
population growth. The perceptive posters in order of posting times
are: Guy B. Jones, cb, JJ, Walter, Rise Briggs, Karen, DD, Eric
Turner, Ken Weiss, Helmut LUBBERS, Lucy, &| Ellary Eddy.
"You cannot preserve the environment by accepting the population
growth and the increased affluence that are destroying the
environment"
A.A. Bartlett
"The concept of sustainability addresses the fundamental question of
the survival of society. Education for sustainability must start in
our classrooms. We have the obligation to work with the large numbers
of students in our introductory classes, to lead them to explore the
meaning of sustainability, even though sustainability is not now in
our textbooks or curricula. . . It may be that no other academic
discipline is seriously or realistically concerned with education for
sustainability. In which case, it's up to us."
A.A. Bartlett