Re: [ECOLOG-L] Unsustainable sustainability (reply to WT)

2012-07-30 Thread Martin Meiss
Hi, Matt, I'm not sure how to interpret this line from your post: But it's naive to project our values, preferences and capabilities (maybe even our anatomies and physiologies) into an unknowable future and seek to impose them on our successors. Are you saying that because we can't

[ECOLOG-L] Unsustainable sustainability (reply to WT)

2012-07-29 Thread Matt Chew
One of the ways people become prominent in a profession is by listening to what others are saying, then saying it louder, in more auspicious settings. Leaders in that sense aren't likely to make waves, but they're very good at riding them. Reflecting the common wisdom is the source of their