Many of us, though not all, recognise the following things:
- All political and religious differences that at present slow
down,entangle and strangle progress in the world will have to be
solved in a civilised manner
- All other life forms have as much right to exist as we have and
that indeed without the bulk of them we would perish
- Overpopulation is a menace that must be addressed by all
countries; if allowed to continue it is a Gadarene syndrome which
will cause nothing but doom
- Ecosystems are intricate and vulnerable; once misused, disfigured
or greedily exploited they will vanish to our detriment. Used
wisely they provide boundless treasure. Used unwisely they create
misery, starvation and death to the human race and to a myriad of
other lifeforms
- It is stupid to destroy things such as rainforests, especially
because in these great webs of life may be embedded secrets of
incalculable value to the human race
- The world is to us what the Garden of Eden was supposed to be to
Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were banished, but we are banishing
ourselves from Eden. The difference is that Adam and Eve had
somewhere else to go. We have nowhere else to go
We hope that by the time you read this you will have at least
partially curtailed our reckless greed and stupidity. If we have not,
at least some of us have tried…
We hope that you will be grateful for having been born into such a
magical world.
Gerald Durrell