Bravo Dave Nutter. You are spot on!!!
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:36 PM Dave Nutter wrote:
> The Lab of O recently released a report saying the world’s wild bird
> population has dropped an alarming 29% in the last five decades. I also
> received a list from the Lab of O about how we as
Compost all you can; I save out most used paper towels and tissues and mix with
my big compost pile leaves, grass, veg garbage etc.
Having a few small woodsy plots here, I also make "wildlife hut" piles with
most my downed branches and tree/bush trimmings, rather than send it to the
dump.
Town
You're right about population - nobody wants to talk about that anymore.
I do the same with composting but also compost ALL of my food waste. I know the
crows and raccoons and possums and so on help with that, but that's ok with me.
Deb
From: Donna Lee Scott
Sent: Thursday, September 26,
A reduction in human population would make EVERYTHING better. That people
continue to have large families absolutely astonishes me. Talk about carbon
foot prints!
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On Behalf Of Deb Grantham
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:56 AM
To:
For reducing impacts of ag, don't waste food. A very high percentage of food in
the US is wasted - spoils or people won't eat the produce with spots, etc.
Deb
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On Behalf Of Dave Nutter
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:36 PM
To:
Alicia,
Thank you for this. Taking the longer view is important.
Also, when I taught Environmental Sociology, we had a shorthand for
POPULATION IMPACT:
**Size of country’s population x Average Resource Use= Impact on
Environment.**
Of course you could refine this
1970 is used as the starting point because that was when the Breeding Bird
Survey started taking data. Data on bird populations simply didn't exist before
that, with the exception of the Christmas Bird Count. The BBS was started
partly in response to the perceived decline in birds already
One organization that DOES talk about population is the Center for Biodiversity
in AZ.
I am a fan. They do good work.
Regi
What good is a house if you don’t have a tolerable planet to put it in? Henry
David Thoreau
> On Sep 26, 2019, at 11:53 AM, Donna Lee Scott wrote:
>
> Compost all
_Decrease in children per family_: In the 1970's, there were an average
of 2.12 children per family, while from 2009-2018, the number had
decreased to an average of 1.88 and is holding steady there - a decrease
of over 11% . (For more info, check here
What's even more confusing is that 100 years ago there wasn't nearly the
forest cover locally. Is it possible that the small patches of woods that
were present back then were loaded with forest migrants so the perception
was many more birds(like the central park effect?)? It's hard to believe
that
Here here, Donna!
Human overpopulation is our the underlying problem of all our environmental
problems. There are just too many of us for the earth to support
sustainably. Planned Parenthood tries to address the issue but the
government keeps trying to shut them down.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at
As an anthropologist I'd advise to be careful, in public campaigns at least,
with arguments about overpopulation.
It can easily backfire, because let's face it, most people on the planet care
more about people than birds or animals or nature. And this is probably one big
reason why
Just to say—what all of us really know—we don’t want our children to be the
generation to have no one to come behind them, to care and innovate and compost
for them as they age and become infirm. Demography is a complex thing and, as
we in the west take longer to die on average, we must
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