Kansas State University
Today's Date: 7-20-2006
1. What interaction with an animal and/or nature in your life has had the biggest impact on you?
camping as a child
2. Did you have a favorite place in the great outdoors during your childhood?
Yes.
Now? Yes.
3. As a former zookeeper, I would love to know what your favorite animal is, and why?
Elephants -- perhaps because of their intelligence.
4. What do you think is the greatest environmental challenge facing us now, and what do you think will be the greatest challenge in the future?
Pollution. Air pollution leads not only to direct health risks like asthma, but also to global warming, acid rain, etc. Water pollution leads to eutrophication of bodies of water as well as toxic build-up, poisoning numerous organisms or even just changing the normal chemical dynamics. Land pollution through agricultural chemicals, toxic waste dumps, etc., poison organisms and ecosystems either directly or indirectly through the trophic levels -- affecting the organisms that may normally come to mind as well as pollinators, decomposers, mycorrhizae, and all sorts of other microorganisms, and so altering ecosystem function.
5. If you could give everyone one piece of advice regarding the environment and our natural resources, what would it be?
Think. Seriously think your actions through to all their logical conclusions and then let your conscience be your guide.
Thanks to my sister Michelle McIlroy for designing the logo!
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