Ian S.

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"TREAD LIGHTLY & CELEBRATE WHAT'S LEFT OF NATURE"

Collinsville, Australia
male, age 62
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Speaks: Babel Fish, oz
Joined Dec 18, 2007

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The tide of the earth’s population is rising, the reservoir of the earth’s living resources is falling - Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr 1948.

"As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and become more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest increasingly diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings intent on colonizing our planet, reducing us to serfs, and then excluding as many of us as possible." - David Korten

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong we may begin to use it with love and respect - Aldo Leopold, 1948

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Hometown	COLLINSVILLE, QLD
Homepage	http://members.westnet.com.au/ibsut/
Birthday	March 01, 1947
Languages	Babel Fish, oz
About Me	RETIRED BIOLOGIST
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Lifestyle
Pets	wild birds come 2 drink, dogs
Activist Aspirations	Disinterested
Political Leaning
Religions	nontheist
Eating Habits	Ethical omnivore
Wild Fact About Me
My Philosophy	BE A HAPPY PESIMIST
What Gives Me Hope	NOT MUCH
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	TRY AND CONVINCE OTHERS OF THE NEED FOR CONSERVATION AND CONSENSUS.
What/who changed my life and why
What Bugs Me	Cruelty - All Cruelty, cruelty, arrogance, liars, control freaks
Passions
Inspirations
What Scares Me	Religious Extremism, War - Cruelty - Greed - Indifference, global warming, OUR CHANGING WORLD
Favorites
Role Models	Paul Watson, Ed Abbey, Aldo Leopold, John Lennon, Jared Diamond, Bob Brown (Australian Greens Senator), Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein
Quotation	“Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.” Sam Harris Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. - Benjamin Franklin "It is the ecologist's job, as a general rule, to oppose growth and progress. The pressures on the ecologist to provide 'tinkering' solutions will continue to be quite strong. Pleas for a change of values, for a change to a non-growth, equilibrium economy seem naive. The government will receive such advice coolly. We do not minimise the difficulty in changing the main driving force in life. The point of view of the ecologist should be subversive; it has to be subversive or the ecologist will become merely subservient." Murdock, W. and Connell, J. H. 1971. All About Ecology. The Center Magazine. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara.
Interests	wildlife photography/conservation
Books	John Wyndham, collapse !, Guns Germs and Steel, the third chimpanzee
Music	Bette Middler, Roy Orbison - Blue Bayou, Buffy St. Marie - Soldier Blue, Edith Piaff - Non Je Ne Regrette Rien, Andrea Bocelli - Con te Partiro
Movies	Blazing Saddles, Dances with Wolves, Inconvenient Truth, Lord of the Rings, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
TV Shows	Auntie Jack, Dr Who (BBC), F Troop
Favorite Foods
Favorite Places	Dunn's Swamp, Blue Mountians WHA, Bunya Mts NP, Point Lobos State Reserve Ca, Eungella NP, Grand Canyon, Yosemite National Park, home
Can't Live Without	books, Wildlife/outdoors, broadband internet
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