I think the article is a little sensationalist, but it's true that doing things through the "proper" channels is a slow and comparatively expensive process. An organization like Mossy Earth does...
I think the article is a little sensationalist, but it's true that doing things through the "proper" channels is a slow and comparatively expensive process. An organization like Mossy Earth does it the legit way, purchasing land for protection and running studies to learn more about the species on it. But needing hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy land and going through the "proper" process is slow. I can understand the desire of people to move faster than our inherently conservative institutions want to move on topics of importance where most people don't feel the urgency.
It's awful that the two options seem to be "do it in an unregulated, possibly incredibly incorrect and destructive, way" or "try to go through proper channels and ultimately don't do it at all". I...
It's awful that the two options seem to be "do it in an unregulated, possibly incredibly incorrect and destructive, way" or "try to go through proper channels and ultimately don't do it at all". I genuinely don't know which side to come down on. My instinct is that the worst thing to happen is for it to not get done at all, but I'm sure that the ramifications of doing it wrong are probably much worse than I'm imagining.
I think the article is a little sensationalist, but it's true that doing things through the "proper" channels is a slow and comparatively expensive process. An organization like Mossy Earth does it the legit way, purchasing land for protection and running studies to learn more about the species on it. But needing hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy land and going through the "proper" process is slow. I can understand the desire of people to move faster than our inherently conservative institutions want to move on topics of importance where most people don't feel the urgency.
It's awful that the two options seem to be "do it in an unregulated, possibly incredibly incorrect and destructive, way" or "try to go through proper channels and ultimately don't do it at all". I genuinely don't know which side to come down on. My instinct is that the worst thing to happen is for it to not get done at all, but I'm sure that the ramifications of doing it wrong are probably much worse than I'm imagining.