Green Topics - Hippo-Crisy?

Today's conservation thinking is becoming increasingly polarised-a widening gap that could eventually be to the overall detriment of mankind, one way or the other. In one corner, stand the disciples of the untainted wilderness, moral protectors of the natural world who subscribe to the doctrine that the fragile balance of nature is threatened by man's very existence. On the opposite side of the ring, stands the relentless developer, with the megalomaniac notion that nature is purely there to serve humanity and civilisation, under the auspices of 'progress',