Daintree Delusions

Although I have a background in science I am not speaking here solely as a scientist. The matter at hand involves much broader issues and I am speaking as a concerned resident, a resident not just of the Daintree but of Australia. Despite a widespread belief that the Daintree is threatened with serious environmental degradation we would do well to keep in mind an important lesson from history. Most people most of the time are wrong. Much of what is accepted as unquestionable truth at any given time is later looked upon as ignorant nonsense or even wilful evil. A few centuries back we were burning people at the stake for witchcraft. A little over a century ago we were still keeping and breeding other human beings as an form of domestic animal. In our own century we have seen genocide on an unimaginable scale for the sake of various righteous political ideologies. Minor irrationalities are too numerous to mention. All that is past. Thank god, we live in more enlightened times, has always been the thinking while blindly engaging in the current irrationalities.