tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8934835343803249461.post5695528233754722469..comments2024-02-05T19:47:21.765-06:00Comments on Good Oak News: Clearing Some Air about Herbicides and ToxicityFrankOnABikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02267797775403219384noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8934835343803249461.post-34246142167476122512010-08-27T08:48:50.453-05:002010-08-27T08:48:50.453-05:00With all respect, I feel that your client's vi...With all respect, I feel that your client's view is just as valid as your own. Your opinion about herbicides being necessary to the long-term health of the earth's ecology is part of a very new schol of thought not shared by most cultures around the world. <br /><br />Plenty of brilliant environmentalists in the western world have contrasting ideas about that too. I feel it's important to acknowledge that there are many wise and eloquent ecological scientists who have a very different view of the role and value of "invasive" plants. <br /><br />As you said, we have no idea about the possible long-term effects of modern herbicides. I feel it's essential that we stay humble and keep our minds open, rather than forging ahead and justifying what we want to believe for our human-centered ideas of what is best for an immensely diverse and complex living and intelligent ecological history that we can still barely understand.<br /><br />In that light, your view and your client's can coexist with equal validity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com