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Relevant to the meta-topic of the blog, I found this part of CNNOnline's story about the extinction of the white dolphin interesting:
Pfluger, an economist by training who later went to work for an environmental group, was a member of the 1997 expedition and recalls the excitement of seeing a baiji cavorting in the waters near Dongting Lake.
"It marked me," he said in an interview Monday. He went on to set up the baiji.org Foundation to save the dolphin.
That goal having evaporated, Pfluger said his foundation would turn to teaching sustainable fishing practices and trying to save other freshwater dolphins. The expedition also surveyed one of those dwindling species, the Yangtze finless porpoise, finding less than 400 of them.
"The situation of the finless porpoise is just like that of the baiji 20 years ago," Wang, the Chinese scientist, said in the statement. "Their numbers are declining at an alarming rate. If we do not act soon they will become a second baiji."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/13/china.dolphin.ap/index.html
Okay, we all know there are no IBWOS left, but since these guys are out there anyway, it seems like their strategy has merit.
I am a bit upset that there has not been a rush to IBWO Pantheism as I had hoped. There are major benefits to thinking that everything is an IBWO. CLO showed us the way by demonstrating how one can benefit if you accept a PIWO as an IBWO, Fishcrow is showing how entertained one can be by simply accepting black blobs as IBWO, Auburn has gone a step further and is obtaining funding after accepting fawn flatulence as an IBWO.
Most importantly once you start accepting everything as an IBWO you will realize, just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, that everything you could ever want is right in your own backyard – if you only want it hard enough. Dorothy thought she had to go to Oz to find that out and Cornell thought they had to go to Arkansas but if they had wished hard enough they would have found what they wanted much closer to home. So pocket the money you planned to spend on travel and kayaks and head out to your own backyard. Or better yet just relax in your house and wait for that double knock on your front door.
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