Spud, The best, likely the only, way to protect the environment is to drastically reduce human overpopulation. Down to pre-industrial levels would be a good target ~half to 1 billion...
Anyway if we don't do it ourselves the environment will do it for us... Edgar On Thursday, March 20, 2014 7:43:35 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > You have a point, Edgar, and you yourself do not have a bad effect on the > environment. However, a billion and one half fellow firewood gatherers, > might have a more profound impact, and they may do a bit more than chopping > then you do. Following Maslow's hierarchy of needs, when peoples standard > of living improves, they start demanding a cleaner environment, and worry > more about wildlife. You are doing the good because you choose to. Others > are forced to gather firewood and chop trees. I hope nobody advocates > permanent poverty as a method to protect the environment. > > Mitch > > Spud, > > Using firewood properly done does NOT disrupt the forest. I've used > firewood for heating most of my life including currently. I use only dead > trees from my own property (16 acres), not taking any with nesting holes. > Only very rarely do I cut a live tree when it's clearly on its last legs or > very > > ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
