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# Some technology better left for the fishes
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/some-technology-better-left-for-the-fishes-editor/
- Published: 2006-04-26T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:39:51.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Dr. Lisette Bauersachs Santa Monica*

Dr. Michael Berliner apparently has never left the city of Irvine according to his article on “environmentalism” (SMDP, April 18, page 4).

One only has to travel to the Gulf of Mexico and then travel to Santa Barbara and finish with a trip to Santa Monica to see what a “philosophy of reason,” or the apparent lack thereof, has done to the once magnificent oceans in America.

I personally do not enjoy the tar balls that stick to my feet when I walk along the sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in Santa Barbara. When I gaze out across the water in the Gulf of Mexico and Santa Barbara, the twinkling of lights on the oil platforms is not a beautiful image.

However, I can walk the beaches of Santa Monica Bay without fear of tar balls and observe dolphins and whales in the ocean without the sight of ugly oil platforms.

I am an environmentalist and an engineer. I do not hate science and technology. I simply love the environment and do not think I need to see man’s technology when I take my children surfing in the ocean. The philosophy of clean oceans is the true “philosophy of reason” in the realm of environmentalism.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 26, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042606.pdf?ref=smdp.com)