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Re: fHuman vs. natural influences on the environment
Joseph Zorzin <redoak@vgernet.net> wrote for all to see:
>charliew wrote:
>
>> One pattern I have noticed in these postings is that people
>> seem to insist that no environmental impact whatsoever occur
>> as a result of human activities. There is even an
>> implication that humans intervene in a way that we keep
>> everything constant where it is. These implications do not
>> seem reasonable to me. In other words, if you want to lessen
>> the impact that humans have on this planet, a good place to
>> start is with the number of humans on this planet. Some of
>> the posters in this group may be addressing the symptom,
>> rather than the problem.
>
>Hmmm.... I would suggest that the carrying capacity for homo sapiens on
>this planet would be a few million, about what it was in the early
>Paleolithic. I suspect not many will agree with me. <G>
I would, if I thought you would volunteer to be the first to leave.
How about it?
Regards, Harold
----
"Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love
of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it
would, if they had it."
---G. K. Chesterton, "The Orthodox Barber" (1909).
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