And the scorpion in his great wisdom said I could not help, is my essence ...
'm a scorpion ...
ANDJC In 1999, under the Third National Congress of Wildlife, Rio Cuarto (Argentina) had lecture on the topic Wildlife Trafficking (Richard and Julia 1999) and began a very long and rich discussion on the subject. I was very happy until he left the issue that always comes out of what to do about it? Then it occurred to me to take the microphone and ask the audience of more than 700 people, if they included some politician ... The response was silence. Then I left the soul say that this Congress was nothing more than a society of mutual applause phrase ... I now attribute many conservationists, but well, I'll take care ... But think about it. All Conferences Animals, Plants, Conservation, Ecology and attended by people with similar ideological profile identical, for the most and the truth is it's very gratifying discourse between people (in many cases fans) that a priori know agree with me I will agree and applaud me and then I'll do the same with the colleague who follow behind me ... The illustrious always absent from such conferences, workshops, etc.. are politicians who are paradoxically those who need education and / or become aware of these issues because they are those with the power of decision ...
They are not and are unlikely unless out of desperation or need votes, which are its only reason for being and exisit, they have no choice ... And, make no mistake in the blue planet that we genuine conservation, we are a minority too unrepresentative. A minority almost non-existent or put it in scientific terms, statistically, are not significant. And the philosophy of conservation is even less meaningful and even scarcer than self-preservation. Do not believe me? To watch click the test, try to gather signatures to protect the Titicaca frog ( Telmatobius culeus ) or Kenolaba ( Rollandia microptera ) and will, in fact, how few share the philosophy of conservation ... conservation has a cause and a Facebook page with a thousand friends conservation? How well, then the intent that his "friends" support in that case and see how one is ... It extinguishes the leatherback turtle in India ... Who the hell cares?? Well, it is assumed that there is only one Blue Planet, a single mother earth and this is the root of the whole problem. What do I mean? I mean the essence of being human. What? The only. Let's see ... see what I mean ... We are talking about the man and his essence, arrogance and hypocritical. But he can not admit to being hypocritical, because his arrogance and superiority complex prevents it. Amalgamating the cohesive element of any society is the hypocrisy. The hypocrites who deliver smiles right and left are considered "good people" but then people named Monsanto (With apologies to the Monsanto soybean). We pretend we are not put in writing and Wave Pattern and Sacrament in scientific texts and everything. Is not that right? How do we call their species? Homo sapiens . Let this name that behave so pompously, starting with the "name" sapiens. What is the basis of such wisdom:
A species that condemns hundreds of thousands more to extinction with no respect whatsoever. One species that deliberately destroys itself with what it does, what you eat, so that smoke, inhale, shot, injected, etc. .. Capable of destroying entire ecosystems egocentristamente selfish no matter what you leave to the heirs of his own blood and kind ... Boasting a species of technological development, it used to flaunt their sadism and boasts of publishing pages on the Internet supporting animal abuse, promoting recreational hunting of wild species with more weapons bizarre, or promoting the consumption of endangered species Gourmet, child pornography, and all etc. they want. And I could spend years talking about the irrationality of the human being only to demonstrate in reality that of sapiens have NOTHING. Obviously I will say that not everyone is like, and I nominate Mother Theresa, Muhammad, Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc.. but see, do the exercise to see how many people fitting that exist or existed, discuss how they ended and in whose hands ... In the majority and this is what this trial, not the few, or the exceptions that do more than confirm the rule. Because the Blue Planet is on its way to destruction at the hands of that majority, not the few, not society ... mutual applause
Homo name? Another expression of arrogance and disrespect for all ... Why? Because Homo alludes to man, thus assigning to man the scientific name Homo sapiens makes paradoxical and contradictory. Homo is an expression macho, sexist, discriminatory and as contradictory as sapiens, since it is assumed that a wise creature should not be discriminatory in any way ... Then the human being is arrogant and hypocritical nature in order to scientific names of himself ... Whether we like it or not. And this impacts on conservation science in many ways. Because let's face it, conservationists like I said, we are far less than what we seem to (which is little). Because if the inherent condition of human beings to function well in society is being a hypocrite, hypocrisy must exercise it ... and if you disagree with me, try to be honest with everyone around you and tell me how you're doing and step make another club mutual applause. But I warn you that it will be very small. In society there are too many gray people who need something to hold on out of anonymity and have some color to them social status. So many take the philosophy and conservationist discourse Discovery Channel because it gives them glazed, public exposure, participation and a certain status among the peer group (ie Mutual Society Applause = SAM) and eventually between supporters who think they know what it is the thing ... But ask when signing or worse still work for a cause, they say no, because it would expose ... Then there are those who studied for conservation and manage a profuse terminology and concepts that are difficult to arouse admiration and sighs of those who listen, but has no idea what is happening outside their own city and hardly ever have because they would go. But you have to understand, cold, heat, mosquitoes, yellow fever, etc. are terrible, but how, h no bathroom there?! The worst thing is that after these seudoconservacionistas saying from the podium of ignorance hurting cagamos us cold, mosquitoes bite us and we pay to mother nature ... But to go further and to blend with facts, just a few days ago I met some seudoconservacionistas, status did not know until they opened their mouths (The fish and humans through the mouth die) and I was commenting on the issue of conservation of Titicaca frog ( Telmatobius culeus ), looked at me looked and laughed and told me: But Quique! Nevertheless, these accounts is an urban myth! Nothing happens with the frog, or the Lake Titicaca ... I looked, and understood well. I understood that it was not worth wasting words or trying to explain neural synapses that would never understand, because the frog and the lake was 60 km away ... Distance sidereal they could never go through to be consistent with the "principles" and philosophy ... I did not answer, just in my house fumbled my photo bank and hung up the "myths" urban in my blogs (2010th Richard, 2010b). It is very difficult to conservation from a cafe, or cabinet, in a city, not knowing, not knowing what happens in the scene. Nobody loves what he does not know and can not keep what you do not love ... Love, conservation commitment are things that emerge from the soul when you experience the facts ... Otherwise it's just hypocrisy. Also, there are those who need leadership and adopt the fashionable discourse in order to have some of it to feed their vanity or self-esteem will rise, which saw always difficult to raise self-esteem because you first have to have it, no? A few years ago in Casilda (Argentina) met one of these seudoconservacionistas that desperate to get out on radio, television, newspapers, etc. defending the legitimate resurrection of the noble rights of yellow crab from plagiarized speeches and statements of many conservationists genuine, but it turned out that when the facts, was not able to do a survey or participate in a research project because it was not for those things , and the curriculum consisted of a statistic of how many times you participated in any particular radio or television ... Anyway, these people do not understand that the credibility of the principles of conservation lie in leading by example. How to be credible or believable to a cause, if after discussing the problems and biology of a species on television, the reporter asks you what saw any of that? Who me? No, why? ...
Well, it's too pretend that these people think that, if adopted the philosophy of conservation for selfish reasons, totally unrelated to the conservation of the human condition ... Finally (for this test), are the conservationists who flaunt their status
Homo sapiens in related discriminatory and restrict their conservation philosophy to species deserve
or deemed "popular" or more social
rating ... What? The charismatic, the neotenic (
fide Richard 2000), the beautiful (Concept by other subjective and too human in its essence) and therefore only species that meet these requirements deserve to be saved ... do not believe me? Look how many clubs there Birding in Argentina (COA's) and the World, birds arouse admiration. Not as much as the reptiles despite being the same, but the sympathy and popularity is proportional to the human subjectivity of beauty. Now, look how many clubs there are observers of ticks, or springtails, jellyfish, amoebae, flukes, echinoderms, etc.. Look how many campaigns there are, how many volunteers have to save the mole cricket Amazon Antarctic copepods, or sponge Titicaca ... Please! no more hypocrisy! Between my blog and see
http://ambientebiotabolivia.blogspot.com/ addition to my notes, and the right are three counters of visits and hits. I am a scientist, so I use them for scientific purposes: When I posted the note by the Kenolaba (
Rollandia microptera ) (Richard 2010b) Titikaka emblematic bird, the shot hits. When I posted the note of the sponge from Lake Titicaca (
Balliviaspongia wirrmanni ) (Richard 2010C), an endemic species, which exists since there is a lake, unique beautiful, intriguing, moving the page died, even though I announced the publication of the note an extensive mailing list
of conservationists and included it in a newsletter, published on FaceBook where 99% of my friends are " conservation "and the same ... after all who the fuck you are interested in a sponge that has the charisma of a parsley (excuse the parsley). Then I published a note Titicaca frog (Richard 2010a) and began to move again the blog, but with the movement and the interest in a frog, slightly more than a sponge ... How unfortunate that conservationists above are genuine tiny minority not representative of all, most of that minority showing his human condition discriminates and takes pride GOD position to decide which species deserve to be preserved, and what not. On what criteria? It is ugly or pretty, insipid or charismatic ... Then in his speeches talking about a fair value for biodiversity ... Again it appears the condition hypocritical human being ... If today I crossed with an alien and he asked me what it means our scientific name or I would laugh in your face or think I'm kidding ...
Now there networks from trafficking in wildlife and it is still interesting to read in the forums, another company of applause mutual allegations of the forum:
.- In this place I saw a cage with two cardinals ...
.- I saw a person who had a parrot ...
Finally, leaving aside such large claims to not fix anything, in 1999 asked a politician why nothing was done with the subject traffic and told me that in fact, beyond the claims of some people (because many reported in the forums and following the thread of this note, the specific few) had no specific data, scientific or serve as inputs to implement policies. That year I published a book (Richard 1999) of illegal structures in Argentina ... The result? Radio silence ... Almost ten years later (2007) I faced a research officer with a public university in Argentina and convened more than a dozen alleged Argentine conservationists to reinvestigate the illegal structures in Argentina ... It was unfortunate as it ran, with the most unusual excuses (In those places there kissing bugs, Chagas disease, bugs, there is no bathroom, subject is dangerous and a long string of etc) ... We ended up making the project as only three people (of a total of 22 invited), published in a scientific journal (Richard et al 2010) the first study analyzed the market, the suppliers, mapificamos the collection points to GPS (To have no doubt) cualicuatificamos volumes of each species and many more. Result? Radio silence ... We send work to the Traffic Network in Argentina and Bolivia and nobody said nothing, zero, zero comments and are taking actions to respect scientific input to do so ... Ahh yes, continued their routine of Cardinal cage, the parrot on the shoulder and Huga turtle ... I have given many explanations, the one with which I stay is that they are few who really care about conservation and everyone wants to be star of his small achievement to have discovered a parrot captive and be recognized so ... and suddenly a person who publishes a work stripping all the traffic dull the alleged contributions to the forum topic ... So, once again overshadow the human interests of conservation, preservation, then, that we speak?? Similarly, I remember that at a Meeting of the Herpetological Association Argentina became necessary to have an official red book of amphibians and reptiles of Argentina, but specify when raining buts everywhere, is more pressing than the issue were also the first to take a side when specifying and curiously absent were also distinguished when it to work ... it, among other things, there was no funding whatsoever ... Anyway, the event took place and resulted in publication of the first "red book" of amphibians and reptiles of Argentina, financed by the publishers themselves (Lavilla et al 2000 ) ... The truth is that all the "conservationists" who advocated for the work at the first meeting ended only a small percentage participate, the facts ...
The dog (Canis lupus familiaris ) is the result of domestication ( Fide Richard 2000) of wolf (Canis lupus lupus ) The result? A new species (subspecies strictly speaking) with extraordinary qualities, true and unique friend in good times and bad, areas in which almost any man his equal. Aspects which earned him the epithet appropriate for the other man's best friend ... Please do again demonstrate the crime of advocacy of more hypocrisy ... Let's see Mr. supine human friendship is a mutual feeling but no ... ends ... When we see the abuse these animals, the mass slaughter we attended recently in Neuquén (Argentina) are doing an act of hypocrisy more ... But how should it be? Stray dogs bother? Sure ... And whose fault is it? Let's see the problem as sapiens. The problem is human. How is the issue? I'll simplify pedagogically. The human being is above human primate mammal and as such is sensitive to neoteny ( Fide Richard 2000), then everyone wakes up a tenderness addictive and need to protect the puppies, so we bought and gave away puppies ... Unfortunately when the puppy is developed and the characters neoténics disappear, former feelings also disappear and give rise to others such as intolerance, until finally, more humane remedy (in the perspective of many " sapiens") is to abandon the dog, the most common source of stray dogs ... Solution? Genuine education or euthanizing irresponsible previous situation clear Ahhh ... I know, this is extreme and is not human ... This it? How pitiful ...
In my talks and lectures, too many times begin discussions on this whole issue and ask me and you why do then? (Conservation). Well, here's my self-criticism and self-analysis. I was born failed Mr. ... Since childhood I was born with a pathological love toward all living things, come from a family of doctors but never was able to study medicine because ironically I can not see suffering to humans or animals, so I did conservation biologist and because although I admit that I see no future for humanity, I have children and at least want to die in the attempt and make my children proud of their father and what he did bequeath the world of their utopian dreams ... Dreams which unfortunately left me alone ... Why? Lean again from the beginning ... because it is very easy to share ideals, but it is much harder to find company to carry them out, to realize them ... When done, to fight, to be exposed for what you believe, this is the time of solitude ... When people ask me why my posts try just my achievements ... The answer is now emerging ... Because gains from loneliness ... loneliness that one finds the time to realize, because it is very nice café conservation, but conservation site ... This is more difficult ...
Well, some years ago (actually decades) someone I said that the environmental situation, pessimistic as ever I saw (Although I take a Optimol Forte Plus per day, less so now), could be remedied if the environmental education was more entrenched in the formal and non formal levels ... Another fallacy another tall tale (With apologies to the Chinese) ... I have been Professor of Environmental Education Course undergraduate and postgraduate (Masters of several countries), have written more than half a dozen books on the subject, I made plans for environmental education at country level and the truth is I have had extraordinary experiences with my students, materials that give me the right ethical and moral criticism. What? The one in all my books on environmental education, which I do at the beginning of all my courses ... Environmental Education are two words, if properly complied with the first, second, would have no reason to exist ... Environmental education is thus a patch education hypocrite who fails in the slightest with your first and last objective "To be whole human beings." Because a person of integrity in knowledge and above all values, needless to say, explain the importance of preserving a finite planet resources, you do not talk about the problems of pollution, etc. And while there is a patch, education will as it is, a tear ... As I said in another of my books (Richard 2004), the university has become for many in the working out of professional failure ... And from this point of view, what can we expect? ... What can we expect from teachers Choosing the normal school teaching because it is a stable job and without any vocation and call to violence as a teaching-learning process (Bolivia holds 80% of classroom violence, and honored first in Latin America). What can we expect from teachers who use extortion to pay claims, but do not show tangible results of their work forming whole human beings, humans that are not facts or figures ... Could tell stories about many (I refer to my books and blogs), just enough to say about it, a few years ago a faculty (to call them that) I was hired to give the subject Management and Wildlife Conservation ... As experience with students, wonderful, as experience in the institution, a nightmare from which awakening finished yet ... I am trying to form, from experience, veterinarians aware of the conservation and sustainable development, aware of the importance of biodiversity in the future humanity and the rest of my teaching institution, considering discredit utopian, because the institution promoted the feedlot Soy and "The Future" and considering that the students could not waste time with utopian dreams, an institution that was proud to receive red-carpet Monsanto representatives to discuss the future transgenic and distribute grants and ... Buying wills scholarships for teachers and students ... Without going further in this faculty, I still remember a class where talking about these issues (Soja, feedlot , loss of biodiversity, etc.) a student stopped class and said:
.- Profe ... with all due respect ... you talk about soy as a conservationist but does not see reality. In the world and especially in our country (Argentina), because many people eat soy because soy ... ... the poor can eat ... Soy is the food of the future ...
I looked
Fixed a moment, before the silence of the entire course replied,
.- If so, just explain to me why in Argentina, a country that today has more soy cows, soy burgers throughout Argentina cost more than any beef burger ...
And that is a lie has short legs, so short that sometimes need to find the answers in a paper or scientific institution, sometimes you just have to do with an open mind in a supermarket and nothing else ... There's obviously more weighty arguments more weight ... than that? Education can liberate or enslave a person forever ... When an entire school propugan one thing (Soybean), the most obvious truth despercibida although we passed under our noses ...
In this context where the university, the highest seat of learning responds to corporate interests, where high school is not taught biodiversity local and therefore it is impossible to love and preserve what is not known, environmental education is a fallacy late ... (Richard and Z. Contreras 2010). Anyway, as promptly denounced and published (Richard and Suayter 2006) the majority of education in Latin America responds to directives from the World Bank is not just a conservation institution ...
To my 47 years I'm tired ... More I am a decade teaching in postgraduate education and higher education and more than a decade I have not heard of teachers who attend my courses what I hear, the answer to a question too basic. Why Why is education in a country? And they say vegetables that they themselves believe they are and learn how to rhyme will know where ... I never hear what I hear, I need to hear ... I never heard a teacher say " Education is to release a person, a people, a society of the conditions that oppress them, an education that does not work for it, good for nothing ... " What good is education if any Monsanto is going around and lie to us which gives the wins and then we are left with a country transformed into a sea of \u200b\u200bsoybeans, glyphosate impregnated until the last aquifer and biodiversity zero ... To respond interests are not the country nor those of humanity ... To educate ourselves if we do not understand an equation as simple as this ... So that we educate ourselves if a few get richer and the final result of the equation is hunger and poverty ... In this context, environmental education serve? And yes, it serves, but no longer a patch to cover the real problem, the lack of a genuine education forming whole human beings with an ethical and moral in peaceful coexistence and respect all creatures as the Blue Planet generously blanket ...
The science of conservation needs education genuine ... Less, much less hypocrisy, more self-critical and we human beings too. Humans need less arrogance, more respect for the planet that blanket and a scientific name more in line with what we are, less hypocritical ... And conservationists? Get out of mutual society of applause, demonstrate a real and genuine commitment to Mother Earth, be more objective and fair valuing biodiversity and have a more active role in mainstream society decides for us today ... I invite you ... Sean
happy ...
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