  I wrote the original piece about J.M. but I didn't add the section that NihonJoe has trouble with. However, if we look at it, I also see no problem with it. My understanding of a true naturalist would be someone who would be concerned with the changes that modern society would bring, ESPECIALLY to a small island with a very unique ecosystem. To deny that modern society does NOT bring about changes, whether positive or negative, would be POV. I met Jack twice. The first was June, 1997, on Miyake. The local JET was hosting a group of other JETs for a diving expedition. While we were visiting, Jacques Mayol (the diver of Le Grand Bleu fame) was also there and the two Jacks/Jacques gave a talk about the environment and the ecosytem. What I remember most distinctly was the warm welcome that both men received from the over-flowing crowd of locals. The locals, TOO, were concerned about the same issues that the Jacks/Jacques were talking about. But it was a bureaucracy and a construction industry based in Tokyo that were pushing more and more construction on the fragile ecosystems. I spent two years on Niijima ('96-'98). I know too well about roads and bridges to nowhere but red ink and a destroyed ecology. Visit Kozushima please. The industry forced onto the islanders and mountain tunnel on a remote, unused, and uninhabited corner of the island that goes to the end of the tunnel only. At the end of a tunnel? A barricade so you don't crash into the water below. That's it. I'm removing the POV tag. 