As if there weren't already enough in the media that challenges my well-being, I just came upon a new terror threatening our children and our quality of life. Here it is, transcribed from a journal on nature, the Orion Society Notebook: "You are probably familiar with the ever growing group of nature photographers who produce glamour shots that in some way debase the natural world. You see this sort of flash-filled, color-filtered, posed, stagnant photography in certain calendars, greeting cards, posters, advertisements, and on television. These images - called 'eco-porn' by some - serve to distance people from nature."
What can we expect from this eco-porn threat? Will I have to shield my kids from a new Usenet group, alt.pictures.nature.hot? Will the Department of Environmental Conservation start going after photographers of ecosystems younger than 16? Will this be the ideal place for Calvin Klein and Benetton to team up on advertising?
- Tony Billoni (funboyee@localnet.com) lives and writes in Buffalo, New York.
