From The
Archives Of The Struggle Against Climate Change And Animal Preservation-West
Coast Version
By Bart Webber
Today, maybe literally today, we are so wedded to the very real idea that climate change is knocking
us for a loop that we forget that such efforts to fight the worst effects of
the crisis have been going on for a long time. One of the leaders way back when
was Johnny Allan, a figure out of the mold of John Muir, guys like that. Johnny
was one of the early advocates of the very sound idea that we do something about
the matter before it got too late, too expensive or we didn’t have the technological
resources to combat whatever affront we had made to Mother Nature.
Johnny Allan,
he was from the South so Johnny named not John, had a fistful of degrees and a
few awards although not the big one which would have helped his “street cred”
as he started sounding the warnings back in the early 1970s. But Johnny will always
be remembered for his very first project in the climate change matrix. Johnny was
worried about what all the changes would do to the animals in the wilderness when
their sources of food got mixed up. Johnny had the very bright idea of going to
the people who ran the San Diego Zoo and asked them to install many canisters
around the park asking kids, really parents but pitched to kids to throw their surplus
coins from their purchases into the kiddy. Later after the original canisters were
worn out somebody from the Zoo came up with the idea of putting animals in front
of the canisters to be more appealing. The whole experiment worked very well
and we can thank Johnny Allan, he of the John Muir mold for the impetus.
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