http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/Deforest_Ikonos2004_2008_MBSF_2.html
[Dr. Lincoln Brower was an advisor to Barbara Kingsolver while she was writing this book]
Cub and his father, Bear, want to sell the patch of forest where the Monarchs are to a lumber company for clearcutting. What ramifications would this have, not only for the butterflies but for Dellarobia's family and her town? (What happened in Mexico after the forests were clearcut?)
Why is it often difficult for people see the long-term effects of their immediate actions?
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What do you think of clearcutting, especially after reading this book and learning about what happened in Mexico?
Why is it often difficult for people see the long-term effects of their immediate actions?
That is the $64,000 question!
Why is it often difficult for people see the long-term effects of their immediate actions?
Sometimes people are not fully informed (by choice or by lack of information access) of the long-term effects of their actions. Other times people prefer to look at the world with rose-colored glasses and assume that negative consequences of actions may impact others, but not them.
The true answer is indeed the $64,000 question.
Amen, Allison and Shirley! All Cub and Bear were thinking about was the money they would get. They didn't think beyond that.
I didn't think that Cub was convinced that Bear's decision to allow the logging was a good one; he seemed resigned to the decision as one that he had no control over. Bear was concerned about financial survival which does blind one also to the long term impact of short term gains.
Oregan Department of Forestry,says cut a tree, plant a tree. The landscape in Oregan is so beautiful. When we lived in California back in the "70" our neighbors moved to Oregan, each year on vacations and holiday we traveled to Oregan. I remember the log hauling trucks would almost run you over on the roadways.
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