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To: Jamey who wrote (89091)8/26/2002 12:30:39 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 116756
 
I agree with most of your sentiment. Much of man's problem stems from overpopulation. But it may be the prairie and the plains that are most overpopulated. The prairie can least afford the pressure on its soil and the rate of crop production because of its tight sandy soils and natural aridity.

Man must use his resources if he is to survive. We must husband them carefully of course. The ultimate solution is to examine what we are doing to them with great scientific precision, but not to overeact. Cro-Magnon man was aware that he lived in an environment he should preserve. He knew he could trap out animals and kill off species. The Maya realized that their problems stemmed from maintenance of crops and population centres.

But from paleolithic man, to present day, we fail to understand or properly control how we prevent excessive resource usage, and control growth. We get greedy. We lose sight of useage. Cod for example. Routinely our "great science" takes harvested species right up to extinction. We aren't too smart, are we?

In fact the cities we live in are the greatest sources of pollution, withdrawl of useful land from production, and generation of ever greater energy requirements. The pollution and encroachment of man on his environment is a gestalt process, with all the activities of man about equally intermingled. There are no green activities and brown industries. They all serve each other in a complex web of energy, waste, and comsumption. It is a lockstep dance which we find hard to sit out. The dance goes on until the music ends and we fall.

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