Myrt Jones

A Gadfly's Memoirs Myrt Jones

The power of one person is unbelievable. The power of many individuals can be explosive-making history and stopping massive destructive projects. This happened in coastal Alabama. A GADFLY'S MEMOIRS documents 30 years of "people power" making significant changes and saving the integrity of Mobile Bay!> stopped drilling operations in Mobile Bay for ten years.> stoped a badly planned industrial/domestic wastewater outfall in the middle of the bay> stopped the Corps of Engineer's plans to destroy valuable wetlands and bay bottoms> changed Alabama State Dock's destructive way of taking and destroying public lands. Came up with less costly, less destructive alternatives, saving taxpayers monies and public lands and helping keep Mobile Harbor competitive as an International Port> saved coastal barrier island tracts of land now known as the Bon Secour National Wildlife RefugeThis isnot fiction, but fact. Myrt was called a Gadfly by a state Senator and found that she was in good company, as Socrates was teh first Gadfly. As E. O. Wilson succinctly says: In democratic societies people may think their government is bound by an ecological version of the Hippocratic Oath, to take no action that knowingly endangers biodiversity. But that is not enough. The commitment must be much deeper...to let no species knowingly die, to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity. WE NEED GADFLYS! GADFLY: An intentionally annoying person who stimulates or provokes others by persistent irritating criticism.