[pct-l] [OT] Too Many People

[Craig Stanton]

No. Our current style of existence may be extremely detrimental to  
the planet has a whole, but that doesn't mean that people can't  
coexist in balance with the planet. Cavemen didn't deforest the place  
all that much, and I doubt they did too much to the atmosphere, until  
they discovered fire I guess. Animals eat each other, we can't make  
them all be herbivores, then they'd be accused of killing the plants.

The planet will go on happily without us, but it can go on happily  
with us if we just made the effort. Like leaving the bears alone and  
eschewing cars for 6 months at a time, for example :-)



On 4/02/2008, at 11:00 AM, robo hiker wrote:

> humans by their mere exsistance are destroying the earth, each  
> other,animals, and it's atmosphere. no?
>
> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:11:07 -0800
> From: gailpl2003 at yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: [pct-l] Too Many People
> To: robohiker at hotmail.com; pct-l at backcountry.net
>
> I view this as a harsh and unfair statement, which surprises me, as  
> I usually agree with robo's posts.  Humans, animals, earth, we are  
> all one......mental, physical, spiritual.....comprised of the same  
> organic compounds, all connected, etc.......cancer is an  
> aberration, DNA gone wild.  So while some humans may be compared to  
> "cancer cells"  (I'm not naming names), this is a sweeping  
> generalization and unworthy of robo's usually intelligent posts.
>
> Wheeew
>
> robo hiker <robohiker at hotmail.com> wrote:
> no matter how healthy and enlightened
> people are to earth as cancer is to the body just a different scale
> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:00:41 -0700
> From: gkesselr at whidbey.com
> To: robohiker at hotmail.com
> CC: hiker97 at aol.com; gailpl2003 at yahoo.com; craigstanton at mac.com;  
> pct-l at backcountry.net; lizmares at cox.net; carolwbruno at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Too Many People
>
> sick people are to earth as cancer is to the body.
>
> healthy enlightened people are to the earth as probiotics are to  
> the body.
>
> robo hiker wrote:
> people are to earth as cancer is to the body just a different scale
>
> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 06:26:30 -0800
> From: hiker97 at aol.com
> To: gailpl2003 at yahoo.com; craigstanton at mac.com; pct-l at backcountry.net
> CC: lizmares at cox.net; carolwbruno at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Too Many People
>
> Wheeeeew writes: Actually, I was thinking the same thing about  
> people.  If you spread them out in their natural habitat, instead  
> of stacking them all on top of each other in the non-sustainable,  
> over-populated, heavily polluted cities, I doubt there'd be enough  
> "natural habitat" to sustain us.  So who wants to volunteer to go  
> first???  Sorry folks, there's just too many of us.  Open  
> season.......!!!!!
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> Trail Pirates.  I know a lot of hikers who would do that, but I  
> figure you are my pal and would not.  Say, I heard one time that  
> there are more deer, bears, and trees in the continental US than  
> there were when the colonist came over here from the old world.
>
> I think I could buy the first two, but I don't know about trees.  I  
> think this might be true in the Sierras, since we control fires and  
> trees have taken over so many of the old open areas/meadows.  When  
> they compare current pictures of different areas to the pictures of  
> 100 years ago, trees are like weeds.  I noticed this too in AZ  
> going up for the 12,633 foot Mt. Humphrey expedition.  Driving up  
> to the parking lot, I noticed how the trees looked like weeds  
> growing near the road.  Sad how we screw things up for our human  
> standards instead of Mother Nature's.
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