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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (4759)	4/20/2005 10:48:54 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36918

I know those of you who have been on this thread long enuff think I'm one dimensional. I don't know about others, but you usually strike me as being pragmatic. But when the problem is a matter of natural resource depletion it's really a matter of overpopulation . I just can't see talking about managing the resource given that the supply demand situation is so far outa whack. The longer we delude ourselves with the idea that just a little recycling ,proper management, use of limited alternatives ,conservation and jailing the bad guys is the solution the bigger the problem is gonna get. That pretty much echoes my own feelings on what's going on in the world. If the population wasn't increasing, we wouldn't be having to deal with such things as water shortages, having to deal with vast amounts of human waste mixed with a zillion chemicals and pharmaceuticals being washed down drains and through storm sewers and ending up in sewage sludge to be trucked out and spread on farmland all over the country. We wouldn't be burning up every source of fossil fuels in sight. We wouldn't be overfishing the oceans. We wouldn't be damming off all of our rivers to produce power or create water reservoirs (often to the detriment of fish habitat). We wouldn't be paving over miles of land and cutting through wildlife habitat. We wouldn't have suburban sprawl creeping out across the countryside. We wouldn't have factory farms and a major problem with nutrient management in dealing with all of the waste from cattle, hogs and poultry. Same goes for having to use ever-increasing amounts of fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides to produce enough food for the ever-expanding population. We wouldn't be having to deal with ever increasing emissions from vehicles, generating plants and factories. We wouldn't be destroying the habitat of many species of wildlife that don't have the flexibility to "move on" when we come creeping in to take over their land. And yup, I've heard it all about how humans were meant to take over the earth and that the earth will provide... like loaves and fishes coming down out of the sky, i suppose. Well, sorry to say, I don't buy that line at all. Resources are finite... just like how from one pay cheque to the next, there are only so many beer in the fridge, and if you keep going back for another and another, or invite some friends over to drink with you, sooner or later you're going to run out. Only in the case of the earth, sooner or later you won't be able to go down to the corner grocery store to buy another case to restock the fridge because there won't be anything left. There's no magic in that.. it's just the way it is in the real world. ~croc