(Part2)Environmental Crime   I asked Juan Manuel Correa “So, there are no written Laws on the issue?” I was sure there had to laws against poaching. Juan Manuel Correa said, “At the time being there is nothing established with in the laws, the structure or specification of just that, Crime…Environmental Crime. And we have to talk of timber or wood, we have to...

A recent article in the “Opinionator” by philosophy professor Jeff McMahan attracted a good deal of attention on my listservs, which include environmentalists, hunters, and animal studies people — a broad assortment easily set at each other throats. Some took this article as absolutely received word and others said it was obviously provocation and still others...

One of the greatest German philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer once said “The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness”. Jared Diamond, a professor of physiology at UCLA, attempted to prove, in a roundabout way, that agricultural societies left human civilization worse off  than any hunter-gatherer society would have. After researching...