tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859567876135439896.post6486144393904963865..comments2024-03-12T04:56:36.742-04:00Comments on Minimizing Entropy: Traveling at home: Can we love nature simply?DMAKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10430943593190838423noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859567876135439896.post-10096666540858151512011-04-28T10:18:34.994-04:002011-04-28T10:18:34.994-04:00In no way am I saying that people shouldn't mo...In no way am I saying that people shouldn't move. I understand what you're saying, and maybe the sentiment that I was trying to get across didn't come across. What I was trying to say is that people need to be mindful of their choices, even though they think they might be appreciating something, either here at home, or somewhere else. I am talking especially about people that claim that they love nature, but then degrade what it is they love (for example, trashing Mt. Everest). Just because people think and feel that they love nature and say that they are appreciating it doesn't in any way lessen the impact they are having on it by traveling half way across the world to get there. People need to be mindful of this. Furthermore, always looking forward to the next equipment so that you can climb an even harder mountain (and "appreciate" nature) is in no way different than the consumerist motives that drive people to constantly buy new phones or new gadgets.<br /><br />(Berry wrote those words when he was around thirty years old.)DMAKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10430943593190838423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2859567876135439896.post-43194740207288452862011-04-28T10:18:06.987-04:002011-04-28T10:18:06.987-04:00Travel and movement is sacred! Freedom of travel, ...Travel and movement is sacred! Freedom of travel, both local and international is a basic human right - one important enough to be enshrined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. I will constantly work to make traveling more environmentally friendly and energy efficient, but I would never give up the right - the basic human drive to move, discover, and explore.<br /><br />And while I like the Mr Berry's sentiment, I am more than a little taken back by the sense of entitlement with which he expresses those opinions. The entitlement of experience and a long life - probably well lived. Plus, he just sounds old. His world has become small again. He has traveled far, seen much, and now can having devoured all that life has to offer he can find true happiness in his own backyard. His contentment comes after a life of joy and pain and experience... Those quotes seemed to me a little to privileged and condescending.<br /><br />~NickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com