The number of people who've gone out of their way to get their hate on about thet man in the last twelve hours mystifies me. I'm trying to figure out just where the hell people are finding support for the idea that he "set environmentalism back decades," but I suppose some people just have to be contrarian when a widely-acknowledged-as-good person dies. :P

He was definately seen in vastly higher esteem in my neck of the woods than most of the domestic conversationist types, who tended to stick either to ridiculously boring eighties-esque documentary styles, or who wandered into the realm of misanthropy. This guy was definately well above most of them.

That said, as a friend of mine pointed out the idea of "natural causes" appearing in his obituary just ain't right. I would've rather he got devoured by something in his eighties than his forties, though. :P