, enviornmental education still needs more focus. According to conservationist RaymondDasmann: To reduce environmental degradation and for humanity to save its habitat, societies must recognize that the environment is finite. Environmentalaists believe that, as populations and their demands increase, the idea of continuous growth must give way to a more rational use of the environment, but that this can be accomplised only by a dramatic change in the attitude of the human species. The human attack on the environment has been compared to the dramatic upheavals of the earth in the geologic past; whatever a society's attitude may be toward continuous growth, humanity should recognize that this attack threatens human survival (12).The serenity of the rain forest is worth preserving both for sake of the tribes who call it home and for the human population that can benefit fromthe rain forests' inhabitants invaluable expertiese in hunting, building,conservation, and natural healing. Why must miners, loggers, and developers invade this uncomplicated society? Why not let these peoplelive confidently in their traditions and peacefully in their paradise instead of destroying their homes or deceiving them into destroying themselves? The rain forest is their home, and as one tribal leader told Time, "If we die,we die in the forest. There is no other place for us to go" (Linden 51)....
