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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

bobf wrote:
> --- On Wed, 1/14/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> ...many people see the big picture of  things like losing the
> rainforest and climate change, but refuse to accept 'smaller'
> impacts...I put smaller in quotes because I do believe that there is
> something to the butterfly effect, and if so,something  small can
> become something big.
>
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>
> ***** Like this story, Bev ?
>
>
>
> Removing cats to protect birds backfires on island

Yes.  It is typical of the way we intervene in things when we so 
arrogantly think we have the answer...


--
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race"

~ Calvin Coolidge