[MCN] Fire: Do Montanans approve the short-sighted reaction?

[Lance Olsen]

"A consistent short-sighted reaction to fires is to call for salvage logging, with suspension of environmental regulations.”

The Megafires report, co-authored by Shannon Heyck-Williams, Lauren Anderson, and Dr. Bruce A. Stein, is available online at: nwf.org/megafires-report <http://www.nwf.org/megafires-report>
The National Wildlife Federation <http://www.nwf.org/> is America's largest conservation organization, uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world. 

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"Ignorance of remote causes disposeth men to attribute all events to the causes immediate and instrumental: for these are all the causes they perceive."

Attributed  to Thomas Hobbes

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“Making connections is the essence of scientific progress.”

Chris Quigg, “Aesthetic Science,”  Scientific American, April 1999

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“The structural relations within and between human societies and their environments form the most complex systems known to science.”

Charles D. Laughlin and Ivan Brady, editors, Extinction and Survival in Human Populations.  Columbia University Press, 1978

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“Teleconnections can be defined as linkages between climate anomalies at some distance from each other. The large distances in space and the differences in timing between these anomalous events make it difficult for one to believe that one event (El Nino or La Nina) could possibly have influence on the other (e.g. drought in southern Africa or hurricanes in the tropical Atlantic). Nevertheless, physical and statistical research has shown that such linkages do exist.”

Michael Glantz. Currents of Change : Impacts of El Nino and La Nina on Climate and Society. Cambridge University Press, 2001

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"We linked 25,000 Animalia species threat records from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List to more than 15,000 commodities produced in 187 countries and evaluated more than 5 billion supply chains in terms of their biodiversity impacts. Excluding invasive species, we found that 30% of global species threats are due to international trade. In many developed countries, the consumption of imported coffee, tea, sugar, textiles, fish and other manufactured items causes a biodiversity footprint that is larger abroad than at home."

M. Lenzen, D. Moran, K. Kanemoto, B. Foran, L. Lobefaro & A. Geschke.International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations. Nature  7 June 2012 doi:10.1038/nature11145



 

 

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