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Article #1082Re: Conservationism Doesn't Work (Was doing something practical ...)
From: emailmiccjl Craig Lighton
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 00:00
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It's not technology, just basic ecology. The earth can sustain a certain number of people, technology may increase that number SLIGHTLY, but doesn't change the fact: if there are too many people for the earth to sustain, ecosystems will suffer. Eventually, _Homo sapiens_ will suffer die back (a DRASTIC drop in population) due to lack of food and water and increase in disease. This has happened to other species, we are no different. Technology has so far increased carrying capacity of the earth temporarily, but the damage it causes then reduces this carrying capacity (pollution, loss of nutrients, deforestation, etc.). The best thing that humans could do for the earth is stop any growth in our numbers, even cut the current world population (everywhere - in both developed and developing nations). My five minutes worth.... Craig Lighton (Anti-spam: remove *email:* from my address for replies) *email:*miccjl@lure.latrobe.edu.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb58e,12302bbb5797cc4b X-Google-Attributes: gidfb58e,public X-Google-Thread: fdaee,a53e1506c8864716 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdaee,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,a53e1506c8864716 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public From: *email:*miccjl@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Craig Lighton) Subject: Re: Conservationism Doesn't Work (Was doing something practical ...) Date: 1997/02/27 Message-ID: <5f35k5$fsf$1@news.latrobe.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 221744356 References: <32DCDCC4.62DD@c031.aone.net.au> <5bk7g1$98@laplace.ee.latrobe.edu.au> <01bc068e$13dffba0$LocalHost@gfet.vision.net.au> <5c9bea$j2@laplace.ee.latrobe.edu.au> <itsd1-2901970056450001@ip-pdx12-01.teleport.com> <5cta3t$4tk$ <5eu81k$1qq@the-fli Organization: School of Microbiology XDisclaimer: User not authenticated Newsgroups: talk.environment,aus.environment.conservation,aus.environment.misc