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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (222445)3/5/2007 5:48:47 AM
From: Noel de Leon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"IMO you teach a man to fish and make him wealthy (sorry to the fish of course) you do not give him fish and keep him ignorant and poor. You do that often enough and pretty soon everyone's wealthy....now that sounds like a reasonable compromise."

At some point you run out of fish and everyone is the poorer for it. Grand Banks Cod are gone and Baltic Sea cod are in decline. Other species are in decline too.

The Christian concept of exploiting natural resources(the fish story is an example) is not to be praised on its own merits. It has to be seen in a wider perspective.
1) Population control
2) Biodiversity
3) Climate change
4) How do you know the difference between "wealthy" and "poor" when everyone is "wealthy"?
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