Red Sky at Morning
James Gustave Speth
Red Sky at Morning - America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
published 2004
Link --
www.redskyatmorning.com - web site
This is our second look at this book. Among the fascinating subjects it covers is a chapter that provides
a short review of the history of environmentalism. The following paragraph is quoted from this chapter.
Further, in the coming nine weeks KF will include links to quotes in which Speth outlines
nine threats to biodiversity and healthy ecosystems.
"Many reasons have been offered over the decades for sustaining the earth's biological
endowment. The earliest and the one that seems to animate the Endangered Species Act,
is the most challenging to our society and our habits of thought. It is a mere ethical
proposition, namely, that we have ethical duties to the communities of
plants and animals that evolved here with us. It is to Aldo Leopold that we must turn for this.
In his Sand Country Almanac he launched what environmental historian Roderick Nask has called
"one of the most remarkable ideas of our time: the belief that ethical standing does not
begin and end with human beings."
Threats to Biodiversity and Ecosystems
Read
Threat #1
And don't forget the oceans!
The thinking expressed by Speth must, of course, be extended to include
marine environments, creatures and sanctuaries. We will come back to these marine issues in the coming weeks.
What's That Bug?
A fun little web site run by two fine arts teachers in Los Angeles.
They say you can send them a bug photo
for ID.
Link
What's That Bug web site
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