To add to what Michael said, Every big corporation in the world is attempting to export the western lifestyle to the other 4 billion people on the planet. Even if the population remains constant (projections indicate doubling in india, Africa and China in within the next 20 years) the planet can not support this. However, I think we should get as many people interested in the outdoors as possible. Otherwise the big corporations will do as they will, because the people will be in city worring about traffic. We may loose some beautiful parts this way but I think it's the only way to same most of it. Jim >>> Michael Neverdosky <MichaelN_at_cycat.com> 04/23/98 10:02am >>> To clarify; I do not advocate killing 5 billion people to solve our environmental problems. That would cause as many problems as it would solve. The rotting bodies, lack of services, destruction of needed services would all result in a big mess. I still maintain that overpopulation is THE SOURCE PROBLEM! No matter what else we do, if we do not reduce the human population we will not keep anything like a natural world most of us seem to like. michael *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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