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(Continued from Page 1) for man. The Everglades obviously made no contribution to man. It was obvious.
Or was it?
Almost too late someone realized that if the swampy Everglades Reservoir was drained then the entire water supply of Florida’s sprawling coastal cities, its ground water only a hundred feet below the porous rock of South Florida, would gradually dry up. The Everglades were, of course, saved and we learned something.
Many Americans today remain ecologically ignorant of such basic things as for instance the algae in the sea, which he calls slime — but the slime provides his breathable air — or the flashing minnows which mean that a creek is providing good water. Or the far-away forests of the Amazon which if cut down would simply cut off 30 percent of North America’s oxygen supply.
Man can conquer disease, illiteracy and hunger. But man cannot conquer or control nature, because man is not in charge of it and never will be. He will never really be in charge of himself until he squares up to who is in charge of wind and rain, green plants and photosynsthesis, birds, insects and the seven seas. The big guy is in charge here, exclusively and forever, and we earthmen here are only now making that discovery. It is as true for Communists as it is for capitalists, for the poor as well as for the rich, for the Chinese
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