Unless we are willing to change our attitudes and the way we live, we are destined to destroy the resources we rely on for the lifestyles we somehow feel entitled to.
These types of developments will scar the lands, compromise vital parts of the paleontological record, ruin their wild, natural character, and destroy the resources the Monument was created to protect".
This, economists will tell you, leads to a "tragedy of the commons," where individual owners, acting in their own self interests, destroy the resource.
Occasionally, I heard von Bismarck speak empathetically about the very people he was trying to catch—"poor guys doing really hard work, destroying the natural resources of their own area, and getting arrested".
Occasionally, I heard von Bismarck speak empathetically about the very people he was trying to catch — "poor guys doing really hard work, destroying the natural resources of their own area, and getting arrested".
It is a system that is based on killing people and destroying the very resources that drive the economy.
You need look no further than the Shell Oil's operations in Nigeria to see an example of the worst kind of corporate behavior destroying the water resources of an area.
East Kalimantan is a microcosm for many of the world's development dilemmas, with its leaders grappling with the challenge of how to bring millions of people out of poverty without destroying the natural resources that local people and the local economy depend upon.
What is certain is that in the last decade of her life, Mrs Root set up a local task force to wage a harsh but ecologically admirable campaign against fish poachers destroying the lake's resources.
Unfortunately, few of these nations have their own Coast Guards to make sure that foreign fishing vessels obey the rules and don't destroy the living resources that local fishing communities also depend on.
