[Taxacom] Extrapolation

[Bob Mesibov]

I think I agree with everything you've written except:

'It's just a matter of shifting the priorities of the people with the
purse strings.'

'Just'?

Also, it's very hard to tease out individual causes in a complex world,
but I reckon I can point to human population growth as an ongoing
problem underlying the destruction of your library. For 99.99% of our
species, if more happy, comfortable, well-fed people means fewer
bugs/fish/fungi/whatever, then so be it. The human world expands at the
expense of the natural one, and that's progress. More people, too, means
more brains and more resources to 'fix' whatever problems are occasioned
by the loss of the library. People holding purse-strings have these
attitudes in spades. That's why they hold purse-strings.
-- 
Dr Robert Mesibov
Honorary Research Associate, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
and School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
Contact: PO Box 101, Penguin, Tasmania, Australia 7316
(03) 64371195; 61 3 64371195
http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/mesibov.html
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