Goodbar_Katherine_Knowing.mp3

Katherine Goodbar [00:00:01] I'm thinking that in most of those apartment houses, there's going to be a child born.

Katherine Goodbar [00:00:08] That child is going to grow up in the apartment house and not know anything at all about the way the real world is put together.

Katherine Goodbar [00:00:17] They are, they know about computers. They know that there's a TV there. They know that they read something about the natural world and animals in books.

Katherine Goodbar [00:00:31] But as far as actual knowing, they don't.

Katherine Goodbar [00:00:35] And to me, the biggest challenge that we have is education. I think until you get them out into the field, where they can actually relate to the plants that are there, the animals that are there, that when you see a little snake wiggling through the grass, you don't have to scream at the top of your voice and go climb a telephone pole.

Katherine Goodbar [00:01:00] Contact with natural areas, field trips, education. To me, that's the challenge.

Katherine Goodbar [00:01:08] Because if we don't do it, it's hopeless. If you've got that many voters who have a choice between voting for industry or voting for natural area, for any place anywhere, you have to have people who know something about both sides to make any intelligent vote.

Katherine Goodbar [00:01:34] And right now, there are an awful lot of them who do not know both sides.

Katherine Goodbar [00:01:41] So, to me that's the challenge.