Exemplary quote from a “whole lake” ecologist

Would that I could come up with such eloquent prose when talking to the press about alarming environmental politics!

Here is what David Schindler said in the Tyee article about the Harper administration closing Canada’s world-famous archive of freshwater ecological research:

The library’s closing did not surprise retired water ecologist David Schindler. “In retrospect, I am not surprised at all to find them trashing scientific libraries,” he said.

“Paranoid ideologues have burned books and records throughout human history to try to squelch dissenting visions that they view as heretical, and to anyone who worships the great God Economy monotheistically, environmental science is heresy.”