Comments on: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2009/04/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/ Creative Ideas for a Greener Future Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vanishing Point | Conservation Magazine http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2009/04/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-16639 Vanishing Point | Conservation Magazine Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:15:33 +0000 /conmag/?p=3907#comment-16639 [...] Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea [...] [...] Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea [...]

]]> By: more http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2009/04/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-208 more Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:19:37 +0000 /conmag/?p=3907#comment-208 One of the more pressing issue is how rising sea levels will devastate poorer countries and nations in the third world. The price they'll pay will be huge. And with everybody else underwater, the chances of them getting decent aid from the rest of us will be slim to none. Look at what happened to when Katrina hit, the consequences will be dire, and we need to act now. One of the more pressing issue is how rising sea levels will devastate poorer countries and nations in the third world.

The price they’ll pay will be huge. And with everybody else underwater, the chances of them getting decent aid from the rest of us will be slim to none.

Look at what happened to when Katrina hit, the consequences will be dire, and we need to act now.

]]> By: Connie Barlow http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2009/04/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Connie Barlow Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:39:49 +0000 /conmag/?p=3907#comment-207 “Conservation” consistently delivers leading-edge issues in conservation biology and conservation ethics that push me to think in new — sometimes unsettling — ways. A number of articles in your April-June 2009 did precisely that, aptly summarized by this conclusion in your editorial summary: “We may be moving into an era when active human intervention becomes the key to preservation.” I have been an activist in the realm of “assisted migration,” working in behalf of one U.S. plant species (Torreya taxifolia). Your magazine was the first to tackle “assisted migration” and its attendant paradigm shift in conservation practice and ethics when you made it the cover story of the Jan-Mar 2007 issue: “When Worlds Collide,” by Douglas Fox. Now your article by Jim Robbins, “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” places assisted migration advocacy within a much broader — and more frightening — context. In that article Reed Noss is quoted as reframing Florida Everglades conservation needs from an ethic of restoration to forward-looking “managed retreat.” That paradigm shift is crucially important for all conservationists and conservation organizations to begin discussing. I was heartened to read in Robbin’s article, too, that The Nature Conservancy seems to be wading into the new paradigm — surely a wrenching decision, given their investment in so many pocket-size and geographically static biodiversity preserves. I suspect that none of us are happy about giving up the old static view of nature and geography, nor of hoping that we can fully fend off global warming at the level of energy outputs. But give those views up we must, for the sake of biodiversity. Thank you for your excellent choice of issues to cover and writers to do the job. “Conservation” consistently delivers leading-edge issues in conservation biology and conservation ethics that push me to think in new — sometimes unsettling — ways. A number of articles in your April-June 2009 did precisely that, aptly summarized by this conclusion in your editorial summary: “We may be moving into an era when active human intervention becomes the key to preservation.”

I have been an activist in the realm of “assisted migration,” working in behalf of one U.S. plant species (Torreya taxifolia). Your magazine was the first to tackle “assisted migration” and its attendant paradigm shift in conservation practice and ethics when you made it the cover story of the Jan-Mar 2007 issue: “When Worlds Collide,” by Douglas Fox. Now your article by Jim Robbins, “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” places assisted migration advocacy within a much broader — and more frightening — context. In that article Reed Noss is quoted as reframing Florida Everglades conservation needs from an ethic of restoration to forward-looking “managed retreat.” That paradigm shift is crucially important for all conservationists and conservation organizations to begin discussing. I was heartened to read in Robbin’s article, too, that The Nature Conservancy seems to be wading into the new paradigm — surely a wrenching decision, given their investment in so many pocket-size and geographically static biodiversity preserves. I suspect that none of us are happy about giving up the old static view of nature and geography, nor of hoping that we can fully fend off global warming at the level of energy outputs. But give those views up we must, for the sake of biodiversity. Thank you for your excellent choice of issues to cover and writers to do the job.

]]> By: Mary Turner http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2009/04/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Mary Turner Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:26:50 +0000 /conmag/?p=3907#comment-206 In short, about conservation and saving the Everglades. I spent my sixth birth date in the everglades it was the best gift my father ever gave me,never another like it. He had a friend from the reservation a scout, should I say watch over us telling me stories of old. and we caught catfish and mullet with our little hands. Back then the only thing the Everglades had to fear were the ferocious fires that occurred natural from the heat and the lose of the animal run over in the road seeking shelter. You Know? Now and for decades the everglades has been a free for all, profit makers example real estate hunters you name use your imagination. I know she has a history. I say protect her the Everglades and its wild life plant families moss etc. Keep the opportunist out. Any thing else need be know about her you may find in books I call it the Minny Eden, we know right from wrong, she needs healing. Thank you Sincerely Mary In short, about conservation and saving the Everglades. I spent my sixth birth date in the everglades it was the best gift my father ever gave me,never another like it. He had a friend from the reservation a scout, should I say watch over us telling me stories of old. and we caught catfish and mullet with our little hands. Back then the only thing the Everglades had to fear were the ferocious fires that occurred natural from the heat and the lose of the animal run over in the road seeking shelter. You Know? Now and for decades the everglades has been a free for all, profit makers example real estate hunters you name use your imagination. I know she has a history. I say protect her the Everglades and its wild life plant families moss etc. Keep the opportunist out. Any thing else need be know about her you may find in books I call it the Minny Eden, we know right from wrong, she needs healing.

Thank you

Sincerely
Mary

]]> By: Infrastructure and carbon footprints « Alan Gregory’s Conservation News http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2009/04/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Infrastructure and carbon footprints « Alan Gregory’s Conservation News Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:36:51 +0000 /conmag/?p=3907#comment-205 [...] This site includes a well done video presentation that includes footage from Florida, a state whose coastlines – now just a few feet above sea level, stand to be inundated by rising sea levels. The latest edition of the journal “Conservation,” published by the Society for Conservation Biology, features color maps showing how much of Florida stands to be lost to the seas with accelerating climate change. You can read the journal’s accompanying article at /conmag/articles/volume-10-number-2/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-... [...] [...] This site includes a well done video presentation that includes footage from Florida, a state whose coastlines – now just a few feet above sea level, stand to be inundated by rising sea levels. The latest edition of the journal “Conservation,” published by the Society for Conservation Biology, features color maps showing how much of Florida stands to be lost to the seas with accelerating climate change. You can read the journal’s accompanying article at /conmag/articles/volume-10-number-2/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-… [...]

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