Shortpoet-GTD, on 10 May 2013 - 03:08 AM, said:
Ok; we'll get off this and back to topic
but by "masses" I simply meant the many people that read this forum.
Not everyone that comes to this site is green or sustainable, but perhaps they're trying to become better
and leave a smaller footprint.
I think we're a self selecting group. To that extent I think most would have at least a passing interest in environmental matters for them to have become members in the first place.
That said, though the members, by and large, have an interest in the environment, they may and do have differing opinions on environmental matters. And, most importantly, we can learn from each other.
And we, as a race, can benefit from science. Glow in the dark sheep might be quite helpful to farmers/shepherds, particularly at lambing time. I grew up on a farm. We had a
lot of sheep. We hired a shepherd for the lambing. That mostly coincided with the school Easter break and I spent a lot of time with him. You get to know the sheep, which are close to term and which might be likely to have problems.
More than once we'd be back out in the night to check on what he expected to be a difficult case. It wasn't always easy to find the animal - a few thousand acres and pitch black. Had the expectant ovines obliged with a fluorescent fleece that would have substantially shortened subsequent searches.
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I think that's valid. 
