It's a classic stand-off. The environmentalists want to save a toad, or a lizard, or a butterfly. Industry wants to use the land for something else. With a cry of "jobs, or lizards?", and with large wads of lobbying cash, industry rallies politicians to their cause.

Environmentalists may argue that, beyond the intrinsic value of life on earth, animals and plants in ecosystems form a complex web of life, and that removing one link in the chain will degrade the entire system of which humans, inescapably, are a part. ... read more »

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Posted on 10 February, 2007 - 02:22