4/230/07 - Sometimes there are a few who choose environmental science for their careers. We need these people. Check out a careen in Environmental Sciences: Environmental Science Program --from SUNY Brockport
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it. - Clearly any changes made to the Endangered Species Act must lean towards more the protection of those species we are driving to oblivion from our way of life. I believe this position hints of saving endangered species lay at the heart of a deep environmental ethic that suggests that the biological diversity around us is integral to the underpinnings of the environment we need to survive. Scientifically, there is no more proof to this position than there is against it, though any responsible governmental body must hold to the Precautionary Principle: where is it better to be safe than sorry when tinkering with a system as complex and vital as our environment. We will be sorry when we foolishly (for short-term gain) extinct a species we might well have needed to keep our environment together. Forget about trying to convince others by showing them cuddly warm creatures, or preserving a wonderful forestry canopy, and think about three billions years of evolution that built the structure of our environment. We don’t have the scintilla of information we would need to allow a plant or animal (or bacteria for that matter) to go extinct. To help, go to Take Action: Tell Your Senator to Save the Endangered Species Act! --from http://www.savetheendangeredspeciesact.org/
Save the Net - Act now to
continue to get complete and
unbiased environmental information
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If you don't know about this
developing issue on the Internet,
Net Neutrality, it might seem at
first like some obscure plea for
your hard earned dollars. It's not.
It's not about a donation and it's
not about an obscure issue that will
have little effect on your life.
It's about your freedom to use the
Internet as you wish: to start a
business, communicate to whomever
and however you want, to say and be
heard by whatever audience you can
make yourself heard. Those who took
away the ordinary individual’s
ability to send over the radio and
television are now trying to take
charge over those who can freely use
the Internet.
This concern is especially important as the Internet becomes the medium of choice for entrepreneurs and how the public receives information for future—and as most of the other media mediums blend into the Internet with the fantastic bandwidth of fiber optics. If you are truly concerned about your fundamental right to chose who you communicate to and from, learn about Net Neutrality and connect with those hoping to preserve the freedom of the net.
As environmental issues pile up in these extraordinary times, it is more important than every that you have the opportunity to listen to as many voices as possible on the environmental issues we face and possible solutions to those problems. Not a corporate giant who interests might, in their opinion, be in jeopardy. In my opinion, the only way you’ve been able to get continual and comprehensive information on the state of our environment in the past several years is through the Internet because only environmental groups and small dedicated informational services have had the insight and tenacity and freedom to pursue the information we need most: that which accurately and continually informs us on the state of our environment.
