Louis Proyect wrote: > http://savageminds.org/2009/05/11/big-conservation-in-papua-new-guinea-jared-diamond%E2%80%99s-new-yorker-article-reflects-a-larger-problem/
yes, it is an excellent article. Here's a small piece: >my complaints are not directed to Dr. Diamond, whom I greatly respect as an >ecologist and physiologist. My complaints are directed at Big Conservation and >how it operates in places such as PNG [Papua New Guinea]. As I did for many >years, Dr. Diamond is merely working for a broken machine. The article does >suffer from ethical problems. But the ultimate causes of those problems are >among the root causes for the failure of Big Conservation in countries like >PNG – i.e., a subtle cultural bias that lower reporting standards that are >acceptable for “primitive” societies than for our own society.< BTW, I was not conscious of the fact that Diamond published in the NEW YORKER until the titles of Louis' pen-l missives. I've always thought of the NEW YORKER as a magazine I find in doctors' waiting rooms that had above-average cartoons. To actually read an entire issue seems quite a chore. Maybe the health system works better than I thought, since I've always gotten in to see the doc before I finished one of Seymour Hersch's articles.... -- Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
