The world will regret having spent so much time debating global warming while the real ecological threat, access to cheap safe water, becomes obvious.

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Perhaps now is the time for me to consider a more formal return to ecological study?

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To be sure you are marking a fundamental change in human society borders on the impossible--such events happen just a few times a century, and (barring things like ecological collapse) rarely with anyone's ability to see at the time that anything has changed.

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Then he finished high school, went to college, then grad school in ecological science and for the last three decades, he's spent his time working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in Taiwan, Thailand, Laos, Belize and Myanmar (Burma), where he tries to protect jaguars, clouded leopards, tigers, Sumatran rhinos and all sorts of large mammals from encroaching humans.

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