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model.
17
As Dr. Russell Mittermeier, Chief Conservation Officer of Global Wildlife
Conservation, has described, Suriname is now in a very strong position to sell the
best drinking water in the world to countries throughout the Caribbean that are
dependent on expensive and problematic desalinization. With a modest population
of approximately 563,000 people, Suriname has blazed a remarkable trail. Vanuatu,
Andorra, San Marino, and others are following.
18
Indeed, compared with the US at
present, these countries are ecological islands of sanity (Fig. 4.2).
4.3 Human Nature and Red Foxes
We are not one human nature. Hence, the well-timed and dramatic work by Paul
R. Ehrlich, Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect.
19
For all we
know, humans may even have, after all, the SorCSi “tameness gene” (found in 1600
17 See http://www.rewildingeurope.com/areas/
18 See “New Conservation Corridor Latest Environmental Triumph for Suriname,” by Dr. Russell
A. Mittermeier, April 14, 2015, https://www.conservation.org/blog/new-conservation-corridorlatest-environmental-triumph-for-suriname/Accessed March 3, 2020.
19 Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington, D.C., 2000.
Fig. 4.2 Dr. Russell Mittermeier Atop the Voltzberg in Suriname. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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model.
17
As Dr. Russell Mittermeier, Chief Conservation Officer of Global Wildlife
Conservation, has described, Suriname is now in a very strong position to sell the
best drinking water in the world to countries throughout the Caribbean that are
dependent on expensive and problematic desalinization. With a modest population
of approximately 563,000 people, Suriname has blazed a remarkable trail. Vanuatu,
Andorra, San Marino, and others are following.
18
Indeed, compared with the US at
present, these countries are ecological islands of sanity (Fig. 4.2).
4.3 Human Nature and Red Foxes
We are not one human nature. Hence, the well-timed and dramatic work by Paul
R. Ehrlich, Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect.
19
For all we
know, humans may even have, after all, the SorCSi “tameness gene” (found in 1600
17 See http://www.rewildingeurope.com/areas/
18 See “New Conservation Corridor Latest Environmental Triumph for Suriname,” by Dr. Russell
A. Mittermeier, April 14, 2015, https://www.conservation.org/blog/new-conservation-corridorlatest-environmental-triumph-for-suriname/Accessed March 3, 2020.
19 Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington, D.C., 2000.
Fig. 4.2 Dr. Russell Mittermeier Atop the Voltzberg in Suriname. (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
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