If only we could get over it

If only we could get over it .... our ambivalent relationship with nature
We know, with our great power, we can hurt nature.

So the right question is; 
When we do damage ( I mean really long term)        what do we do to stop it? 
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The Greens would have us take a sacred  " no touch approach ", which is fine,  except its not at all  practical . Such ideas may fill us with a sense of righteousness when we are full but they do not fill our bellies or even our brains .....when we are not sitting with a screen in front of us.
You see , you need durable hardwood ( or perish the thought treated pine ) to build this wonderful sensible and sound walkway.
-- we need a thoroughly realistic approach to working with nature.

We have teeth to decompose but we don't have rumens to do it properly in our chosen ecosystems ( Grassland in Australia)  We can't all be vegetarians and vegans and it may not even be good for us to do so.

--- to be realistic we need to study our relationships with nature much more closely and wisely.
Instead of pretending we all need to live in bark huts and eat herbs we need to work together more

The Victorian State government are under Green political pressure again to stop grazing in the high country
This was my response.

 It would be great ,wouldn't it, if all conservationists agreed . 
It would be absolutely fabulous too, if our government actually employed people who knew what they were talking about on this critically important area - and not just hired them . 
It would be just so helpful if we didn't have to daily remind the Greens, and now our ignorant politicians, that THEY now go off half cocked and simple about so many complex land management issues. 
Yes grazing animals do create some minor damage around water holes in summer and protection of species and grazing pressure must be monitored, but ruminants provide a sound and necessary counter to the acidification forces that naturally degrade high country ecosystems and the water that flows from them .
All this is of course IS news to Greenlabor who now run the environment portfolio for their...friends 
THIS IS  Tragic stupidity perpetuated by both parties in complete ignorance of the poor legacy they are giving to our children  Not clever country -