Chapter 12: What you can do to save wildlife The previous essays
should have made it clear that everything we do affects
wildlife. We are the dominant creatures on this planet and we
can choose to wipe out most of the species just by continuing on
our present course of accelerating population growth and
accelerating resource use. To save wildlife requires positive
action; it requires changes in life style and changes in our
general way of thinking (or not thinking). We must heed the
maxim "Think Globally, Act Locally" and realize we are bound
with all other forms of life in one gigantic ecosystem. The
following are a few of my suggestions of things you can do to
help wildlife (and eventually, help yourselves). One of the
dominant features of our culture is our obsession with "saving
time" as though time were something that could be stored in a
deep freeze or bank vault. We consume enormous quantities of
energy by using "time saving" gadgets from dishwashers to power
lawn movers to garbage disposals. We drive