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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (7223)	6/9/2000 4:01:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Yes, i agree completely ... still, the numbers in the cities are scarey to me .. so vulnerable in so many ways - it takes an industrialised society with huge resources to build and maintain such a structure, and people within it lack the connection with the earth provided by feet on the land. There is an inevitable change in mores that will go with this. I enjoy brief times in cities, there are great attractions, but i could never commit to living there ... Willie Nelson sang an old song, 'give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above, don't fence me in' - i feel this in the bone [but i also build fences, i mean if you don't the cows will wander off, lol] .... it is partly love of nature, partly distrust of crowds ... we have hectares of trees in BC and hectares of zacate in Chiapas, a cousin is helping me work out the economics of a programme of interplanting the way-too-cleared potreros of our area with high value timber species such as caoba and cedro ... it is just so obvious that in the tropics the grasses grow better near trees and meantime you are growing timber value, but it seems you need a high-priced scientist to convince people ... we leave a light footprint, but most don't, so overall yes i'd rather they stayed in the cities ... one thing that is disappointing though, fwiw, is the general lack of basic understanding of city people proposing certain 'environmental' causes, combined with their numbers and a tendency to arrogance and a will to dominate those on the land ... this sets up an us/them situation that is counterproductive ... as in all things, the answer imho is education, for all. In ejidos people live in a village and have their potreros radiating outwards, there are no 'suburbs' ... this is intelligent [read 'cheaper'], it concentrates services and social life and yet all members have land nearby ... still, there is a limit of souls those square kilometres will support, and one small city whose population spread out would destroy the place ... yes, best they stay there, for sure.