Those are reasonable points. I might point out, though, if the goal is to restore nature as much as possible we should stop all trail usage. We can reverse the incremental changes that those before us have made and some of us are currently benefiting from.
So I think the question is: what is the best trade off between allowing us to enjoy what nature has to offer and the impact of such enjoyment on our natural surroundings? On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 2:35 PM Gordon Woodington <[email protected]> wrote: > Because not everything that is grey can be undone and when it gets too > dark it is too late. Just the nature of how most of humankind, > governments, groups of people react. It is too hard. > > An individual claims one's personal increment is important and must be > allowed, as many others will do too, and that one's own part was not the > cause of the total negative impact and is absolutely needed. Every year > for more than a century there has been environmental pollution and > resultant damage, but each increment was not the issue, but the sum of > increments is a big disaster. We see so many examples that society/mankind > is not able to "unroll" enough of the increments . > > I expect human nature to be the same on a small scale, here in Lincoln. > Once the damage of an increment becomes "the new normal", memories fade of > what was lost, and it's easier to forge ahead yet another increment, > because " it too has so little impact". So I disagree wholeheartedly with > allowing the proposed incremental changes. > > Because of many real aspects of Nature and human nature, I believe changes > will become irreversible. > > Gordon Woodington > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:09 AM Rich Rosenbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know why people think that changes are irreversible. If something >> isn't working is there a reason that it can't be undone? >> >> How else can you learn what really works and what doesn't? >> >> -- >> The LincolnTalk mailing list. >> To post, send mail to [email protected]. >> Search the archives at http://lincoln.2330058.n4.nabble.com/. >> Browse the archives at >> https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/. >> Change your subscription settings at >> https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. >> >>
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