This is Bad Environmentalist

a manifesto

Weeks ago, I stood on the sandy shores of a beach in southern Belize, watching a park ranger survey a newly-hatched nest of Hawksbill turtle eggs. He checked to see how many turtles hatched from their golfball-sized eggs, and how many perished.

It was a good day for the turtles. Out of 120 hatched eggs found by the ranger, 110 survived.

For the lucky tu…