Category Archives: environment

The only thing that runs in Africa is the food…

If you have a few hours to spare, I recommend taking a look at Whatever You Do, Don’t Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, by Peter Allison.  The title is pretty self-explanatory, and the book is just a series of anecdotes about the author’s time spent as a guide in the Okavango Delta.  […]

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Economic growth and the environment

The insistence by some biologists that we must halt economic growth in order to save the environment has bothered me for some time, but I was prompted to write about it now because yet another, albeit minor, group has adopted a policy statement on the issue.  That a naturalist group has agreed to this nonsense […]

Also posted in Biology, Economics, June 2008 | Leave a comment