Re: [Pen-l] Excellent article on Jared Diamond and the New Yorker

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
> http://savageminds.org/2009/05/11/big-conservation-in-papua-new-guinea-jared-diamond%E2%80%99s-new-yorker-article-reflects-a-larger-problem/

yes, it is an excellent article. Here's a small piece:
>my complaints are not directed to Dr. Diamond, whom I greatly respect as an ecologist and physiologist. My complaints are directed at Big Conservation and how it operates in places such as PNG [Papua New Guinea]. As I did for many years, Dr. Diamond is merely working for a broken machine. The article does suffer from ethical problems. But the ultimate causes of those problems are among the root causes for the failure of Big Conservation in countries like PNG – i.e., a subtle cultural bias that lower reporting standards that are acceptable for “primitive” societies than for our own society.<

BTW, I was not conscious of the fact that Diamond published in the NEW
YORKER until the titles of Louis' pen-l missives. I've always thought
of the NEW YORKER as a magazine I find in doctors' waiting rooms that
had above-average cartoons. To actually read an entire issue seems
quite a chore. Maybe the health system works better than I thought,
since I've always gotten in to see the doc before I finished one of
Seymour Hersch's articles....
-- 
Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine
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