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To: LindyBill who wrote (17185)	11/22/2003 7:58:44 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 793744

When I was a kid, learning woodwork at school, we would make high grade furniture from African and Brazillian mahogany plus other speciality hard woods. Those traditional skills are hardly taught these days and all of those woods are no longer sold commercially as far as I know. Regarding Fish. Take the Newfoundland banks as an example where responsible use of the resource should be made. I think there should be a world wide movement to make the sea as productive as possible rather the strip mining it.

To: LindyBill who wrote (17185)	11/22/2003 8:02:37 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793744

Funny that in a discussion of "running out of commodities" you picked two renewable ones as examples. If fish are so "renewable," then why are we running out of them? Yes, technically, they are renewable, but overuse of resources has long been a problem and we have long regulated to maintain stable populations of all sorts of living things. Ancient peoples rotated pasture lands when they were overgrazed. The only reason fish are still affordable is because we're farming them now. That, of course, comes with its own set of problems. I think you're making way too light of the resource situation. Harvesting techniques have improved so much that natural resources are easily lost. There are wood shortages all over the world. People use dung for cooking fires. We may not run out of room to grow trees in our lifetimes, but sooner or later we will.