THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE PROJECT

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Re: The Myth of the Sustainable Lifestyle

From: Rob Cozens
Affiliation: Ocean Wilderness Network
Remote Name: compression03.oak.mdsg-pacwest.com
Time: 17:25:09 +0100

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In "Sea Change", Sylvia Earle writes "...not a single example exists of commercially successful 'sustained use' of a wild population, terrestrial or marine." She suggests the principal reasons for this are: " * swift population increase..., * the rapid advance of technology, and, most influential &...dangerous of all, * a perverse, self-centered mind-set that shapes the character of many human actions"