crisis

Modern man thinks we can do without nature, or we're better than nature. We can manipulate it in our own way. We don't need free-flowing rivers to have salmon: we can farm them. But we are part of nature, we can't divorce ourselves from it. We are going throught the sixth mass extinction of species around the world - and we are a species. Somehow we think we're not going to be part of that extinction. But in fact, as one of the big mammals, we'll probably go first. The key to any kind of so called sustainability is to take care of nature, to work with nature. To think we're better than nature - and come up with something to isolate us from the laws of nature 
- is rediculous (Yvon Chouinard), founder of Patagonia)