Quotes (Nature and Environment)
An ecosystem is a tapestry of species and
relationships. Chop away a section, isolate that section, and there
arises the problem of unraveling. - David Quammen, The Song of
the Dodo
"This is what it's all about. At the flick of a switch, lives are transformed ...but I can't help thinking that, in a way, they're just exchanging one kind of bonded labour (in this case, fishing) for our capitalistic version (which is just slumped in front of stuff, you know... addicted to stuff, to material stuff...)
Now... I've got awful lot of information but I find it very hard to plant myself firmly on either side of the debate. I think, to frame the debate within a certain boundary of opposites of right or wrong is heading to nowhere really ... let's build dams everywhere because they are clean, green and everyone is going to benefit and I maintained that completely singular perspective... and then you stop to investigate your own mindset...
I've been brought up on a western colonial education and why wouldn't I want people to have electricity here? Why wouldn't I want people to have nice new houses and a house like I've got?
Is it just because ... I would like to have a holiday here... How appalling!
This is the thing that challenges your preconceptions so constantly and I am really glad of that. Is life's goal always about the pursuit of the cathode ray tube and the fridge freezer, or is it a more natural connection with landscape and a better quality of food that can be retrieved from it?... And somewhere there is a middle point - I don't know where that is - I don't think mankind as a whole has found it. But it is a sort of intellectual frontier that Asia is going to navigate as it develops... of course, there are no easy answers." - Sue Perkins
"This is what it's all about. At the flick of a switch, lives are transformed ...but I can't help thinking that, in a way, they're just exchanging one kind of bonded labour (in this case, fishing) for our capitalistic version (which is just slumped in front of stuff, you know... addicted to stuff, to material stuff...)
Now... I've got awful lot of information but I find it very hard to plant myself firmly on either side of the debate. I think, to frame the debate within a certain boundary of opposites of right or wrong is heading to nowhere really ... let's build dams everywhere because they are clean, green and everyone is going to benefit and I maintained that completely singular perspective... and then you stop to investigate your own mindset...
I've been brought up on a western colonial education and why wouldn't I want people to have electricity here? Why wouldn't I want people to have nice new houses and a house like I've got?
Is it just because ... I would like to have a holiday here... How appalling!
This is the thing that challenges your preconceptions so constantly and I am really glad of that. Is life's goal always about the pursuit of the cathode ray tube and the fridge freezer, or is it a more natural connection with landscape and a better quality of food that can be retrieved from it?... And somewhere there is a middle point - I don't know where that is - I don't think mankind as a whole has found it. But it is a sort of intellectual frontier that Asia is going to navigate as it develops... of course, there are no easy answers." - Sue Perkins
