Bullshit. I'm as bad as anyone else. I went looking for that insecticide this week, remember? Did I stop to figure out keystone insect species in my area? If the insecticide would affect the spring and the pond? Nope, I just wanted to kill me some bugs. I'm as human as anyone else (but for those of you keeping score, I didn't actually BUY any of it--I chickened out).

Animals live in necessity and humans live in choice. Sad thing being that we continually make bad choices, either out of pride or ignorance, simply because we want things the way we want them.

And don't get me wrong, Gauguin's work --even the strange headless cows-- leaves me weak at the knees, but I fail to see how it is relevant to a discussion on environmental health and species extinction.