Wanted to point your attention toward a fascinating story in today's New York Times: "To Protect Galápagos, Ecuador Limits a Two-Legged Species". Poor Ecuadoreans are being forced to leave the islands where they eke out a living serving the tourism industry, which provides the economic basis for the preservation of the Galápagos. The divide between economics and ecology is always negotiated by politics and power.
Some of you are doing great with your blogs, but a number of you are way behind. I am paying close attention either way.
UPDATE: Here's another fascinating article—a review of a book by Frans de Waal, The Age of Empathy, which looks at the ways animals respond emotionally to each other and complicates perhaps some of what we were talking about vis-a-vis authenticity last week.
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