Wade Davis Quotes
Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel
Davis, Wade. The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena, and Nass. Greystone Books, 2011, p. 19.
Violating these Iroquois “environmental regulations” were not mere technicalities but were enforced by war if necessary. The Iroquois were very sophisticated diplomatically and had appointed Garangula, a chief of one of the Iroquois tribes, to be their Ambassador Plenipotentiary in negotiations with the French.
This was a common refrain by 2005, but this was written 80 years before that. Few had this prescient vision.
He made a specialty of finding potential new pharmaceuticals amongst rare species producing an important economic reasons for keeping the species healthy/
Energy conservation requires chnge and sacrifice in the short term while fracking has few short term difficulties and requires the vast majority of American to do nothing. The extent of medium and long term damages that fracking will cause is yet unknown and is made even more difficult to know by the practice of the oil drilling companies of keeping the chemicals, amounts, and procedures the use for fracking secret.
Edmund Wade Davis CM is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best-selling book The Serpent and the Rainbow about the zombies of Haiti. He is professor of anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia.
