[MCN] Corporatization of Montana Conservation Orgs

[Lance Olsen]

Joe Scalia’s criticism isn’t baseless. He does cite truths that need to be under close discussion

I’d largely fault his analysis for excluding a high-importance trend that accounts for, for example,  just how damaging mountain biking can be. 

To cut to the chase, get to the point, how much damage would mountain biking do on a planet with just 10 people, or just 10,000 or even 10,000,000? 

Scalia’s not alone. Mora (2014) reviews “recent studies showing how the issue of population growth has been downplayed and trivialized among scientific fields.” 

He argues that human population size, “...despite being directly or indirectly linked to the deterioration of ecological systems and a key factor for the success of conserving species and ecosystems, has been rarely considered and in fact ‘trivialized or ignored’ by much of the conservation biology community.” 

Mora, C. 2014. Revisiting the environmental and socioeconomic effects of population growth: a fundamental but fading issue in modern scientific, public, and political circles. Ecology and Society 19(1): 38. 
<<http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138>>

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