Re: Plant mapping

Paul Seymour (paulseym@ozemail.com.au)
Wed, 06 Mar 1996 20:17:15 +1000

>In fact, detailed habitat information will be recorded alongside
>with this project but will not be distributed with the maps on the web (in
>order to comfort conservation minded organizations and individuals. NB:
>This is not entirely what I understand by scientific method but I do not
>want to endanger the project by my personal views on this controversial
>subject).

For goodness sake Jan, spit it out. I was brought up to believe that access
to knowledge was something worth fighting for. We have education, laws and
penalties to try and control how an individual behaves, we have no right to
to seek to control behaviour by controlling access to knowledge. If your
predecessors had adopted this attitude you would probably still be
practicing alchemy my friend.

Regards,

Paul.