I wrote the original piece about JM but I didnt 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  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 JacksJacques gave a talk about the environment and the ecosytem What I remember most distinctly was the warm welcome that both men received from the overflowing crowd of locals The locals TOO were concerned about the same issues that the JacksJacques 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  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 dont crash into the water below Thats it Im removing the POV tag