The subject line in my previous diatribe is supposed to read;
We Have Met the Enemy + and He is Us.
Proof reading is hell. And boring too.
Charlie

: For you whippersnapers that was a quote from a great American, Walt Kelly,
: who drew the comic strip "Pogo". Old Walt is long dead but spoke
: better than he knew.
: The greatest danger to the ecology of the world is the sheer number of people
: on it.
: I was born just before WWII. The world population was about 2.2 billion then.
: It's probably over 6 billion as we speak. From the time my
: great-grandfather was born in 1842 till my birth the population only grew
: by a billion. In my lifetime it has almost tripled.
: The severest dregradation of plants and animals comes from subsistance
: farming cultures that wreak havoc just so their people can live for
: another year or even another month.
: We in the West are big time consumers and big time polluters but we know our
: sins and we will not let ourselves commit ecological suicide.
: Nobody in the Third World has the power to stop the starving masses who will
: slash and burn and kill just to survive for another day.
: If David Hazen wants to save the world's ecology he's going to have to go to
: India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Bengladesh, China, Mexico and any other place
: where the gross national product is made up of mostly of babies and sell
: them folks on the benefits of limiting their numbers.
: I think the Jane Goodalls, Diane Fosses, tree huggers, Fund for Wildlife,
: Nature Conservancy,UNESCO, Greenpeace, etc. are all doing the Lord's work
: but in reality they are just spitting in the ocean.
: In the end hungry humans will keep exploiting everything around them until
: there ain't no more. Then they will come here.
: I'm going to have fun until I'm elbowed aside.
: Pogo Possum, where are you when we need you?
: Thanks for letting me spill my guts.
: Charlie

: Here's an open letter I posted just today from a small topic from yesterday