God’s handiwork can be improved with a little help from the rest of us

WE HUMANS are a lot closer to nature, and nature a lot closer to us, than we generally realise. And therein lies our last best hope for patching up our suicidal quarrel with our own planet.

We get a very bad press about our treatment of the environment, but not all of it is deserved. Perhaps it is time to begin to accentuate the positive aspects of the human ecological footprint.

Again and again, the message goes out from Green advocates that we are the bad guys and gals and that nature, left to itself, would do a much better job of managing the earth’s ecosystems.