Let’s get something straight. It is pointless to talk about ecological conservation until we first address the restoration of nature in so far as this may be possible. There is no doubt this will not be easy.
In approaching restoration the challenge divides spontaneously into:-
1. that which cannot be done,
2. that which we are unwilling to do and
3. that which may be done.
Critical to success or at least maximising of potential is the movement of as much as possible from group 2 to group 3 and an iron resolve to implement even the most trivial step toward rehabilitation of nature and equally human kind’s relationship with it.
Fundamental to change is the rethinking of much that is central to human behaviour, in recent centuries at least. Contrary to common belief we do not and cannot own nature or any part of it. Therefore while we may borrow or by force, possess land and erect buildings on it, this is nothing but a convenient fiction devised for the purposes of those who would control or dominate others, and nature.
It may be proposed that many are content to live in harmony with nature while others are driven to conflict. It is the latter who must be brought to accept their reversal of fortunes. Their ways have brought us to this bitter crossroads where our children’s future and grand children’s lives and the entirety of nature as we know it is in peril.
Change until it is practised is difficult for all but without change there is no future.