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THE famous naturalist John Muir once warned conservationists (the word used before “environmentalist” came in vogue) that they made a basic mistake in assuming their preferences represented a universal attitude. Not everybody likes trees andwildflowers and wide open spaces, he told his amazed colleagues; as a matter of fact, it is likely that a majority of people actively dislike such manifestations of “wildnerness.” That’s right, they’re not merely indifferent to nature’s beauty, they actively dislike such things. Otherwise, why would they be so intent on destroying them?
Muir’s observations were recalled as thousands cheered the arrival of the French and British supersonic passenger jet planes at Dulles International Airport. Environmentalists have been fighting these latest examples of “progress,” warning of noise pollution and perhaps damage to the earth’s delicate ozone layer if too many of these things ever start operating in the stratosphere, but thousands cheered when the planes arrived.
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