People just do not seem to understand the interconnectness of all things. You reference the "butterfly effect" and detractors take it too literally. Even physics makes frequent references to the intercinnectness of systems. Is it that the detractors just don't want to accountable?

Muir was a wise man. I recently read a book about him and his fascination with glaciers and the Alaskan wilderness; it was very intriguing. John Muir AND THE ICE THAT STARTED A FIRE, by Kim Heacox.

Muir is just one of the ecologist that I like. I have also visited Yosemite and thought of him while doing that!

I wish we'd stop forgetting this.