Golf has an ambivalent relationship with the environment. On one hand, it's a great preserver of open spaces. Golf doesn't pave the world - it helps to green the world. But the downside is, it uses a lot of fertilizer, pesticides and water.
In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like Los Angeles. Rivers and lakes were filled with chemicals. In my hometown of Boston, the harbor was among the nation's most polluted waterways.
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened.
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Can you name an environmental problem that would NOT be easier to solve with fewer people, or harder (and ultimately impossible) with more? Nobody can.
The degradation of natural resources such as forests and freshwater has removed much of the resilience that societies formerly enjoyed.
What is likely to vanish - or be transformed beyond recognition - are many of the things we think of when we think of Australia: the barrier reef, the koalas, the sense of the country as a land of almost limitless natural resources.
The plundering for profit of the world's natural resources has threatened the very sustainability of the planet.
I'm one of these guys that just spoils the environment. I like ATVs and snowmobiles. I have a motorcycle up there, and I like cruising through the hills.
I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.
