If you are making an attempt to speak something, it invariably helps if the two parties use the same language. As obvious as which may sound, it is not always a given, especially when addressing environmental issues. If this were a scholarly article, I might decision it "Semantics of Environmental Language". I've got browse a heap of work on ecology and environment lately, numbering into the tons of articles on the topic, and many things jump out at me. One is that we aren't all talking about the identical problems in the same language, and that some definition is in order. I've got stockpiled every article that Google has discovered on the topic for many weeks, and it appears that we don't seem to be all on the identical page, not even in the same book, and, perhaps, not even on the identical planet!
RADICAL:
Let's look at this briefly from a linguistic purpose of view. In linguistics, a radical could be a root, or the root of the word. What I am advocating here is some true Radical thought, by getting back to the basis of the issue. For example:
This is the EPA definition of IPM:
"In technical terms, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is that the coordinated use of pest and environmental information with available pest management methods to forestall unacceptable levels of pest damage by the most economical suggests that and with the smallest amount attainable hazard to folks, property, and therefore the surroundings".
I simply don't think that the EPA definition goes so much enough, and it definitely starts in the wrong place. The standard definitions simply do not work. If we tend to start out using them to outline where we are, we are, at best, putting the proverbial band aid on a bullet hole. I propose a completely different model. One that not only treats the symptoms, and cures the disease, but one based on prevention. Most definitions of IPM, begin with the symptoms, and how to house them by using the numerous strategies at hand. The important issue is prevention. Let's examine it like this: The pest drawback, say, West Nile Virus carrying mosquitoes, are the evidence or SYMPTOM. We tend to have them in our lawn, or school yard or park as a result of we have a breeding space nearby, that is the DISEASE in our environmental body, and therefore the cure, is to induce rid of the standing water that allows them to breed. The solution to the problem is to stop doing the things that cause the stagnant water build up, or at least don't build the home, or school or park nearby to it.
The fact is that we create the overwhelming majority of our problems. We have a tendency to do thus by such innocuous means that as "burial at ocean" for the deceased family goldfish (the doubtless source for our current hydrilla downside). We have an astounding array of "non native" environmental problems like kudzu, hydrilla, imported fireplace ants, and imported diseases currently carried by our native pests, and most of it may are prevented with a very little forethought.
What we have a tendency to would like is prevention, and it needs to spread manner beyond the pest control arena into alternative seemingly unrelated industries, like the architects and engineers coming up with our structures, keeping in mind that where they are designed, and what we have a tendency to do to build them, has long term consequences for the broader environment. We tend to need to change our means of thinking about ecology and environment, therefore that we have a tendency to can modification the way we tend to interact with it.
If we start with the widely held assumption that the symptoms are the disease, we tend to will never get to the cure! We are solely masking the symptoms, like giving someone with a heavy infection an aspirin, and, when the fever subsides, assuming that that solves the problem. They have antibiotics, and those sparingly, and then a modification in whatever situation caused the infection, to stay it from recurring. Let's begin thinking in terms of causes and prevention. The preventative technique is to alter the method we tend to think. Our road map may be fine, however we can never arrive at our destination by departing from one place, and thinking it absolutely was another!
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