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Re: [RC] Why "Naturalists" are Doomed - Barbara McCraryI have often thought, upon hearing someone say all the faults on the earth are caused by man and his overpopulation, "would you like to volunteer to reduce the population by at least one?" They have all the ideas of the problem but I'd bet they wouldn't be willing to help solve it by removing themselves from the earth.Besides, I find it odd that man is considered unnatural in the scheme of things. Why? Man was put on the earth, or evolved here, for some reason, or he wouldn't be here at all. So why blame all humans for the ills of the earth. Granted, we need to clean up our act, but I consider "man" just as natural as any other animal. Because we were endowed with a brain that can assess matters in a way that animals cannot, we just need to get smarter about how we live here. And I don't for a minute think that includes doing absolutely nothing with the earth. I've seen what happens to land when absolutely nothing is done to care for it, and it's a terrible mess of brush, overgrown weeds, and far too many invasive trees. We've been fighting to restore some of the beauty and productiveness of our land for over 50 years. We're making some progress, but it's an uphill battle. Should we quit the fight, the land would be taken over again by brush, poison oak and what I call "junk trees," ones that grow fast, die of disease and sit there looking like awful skeletons. People have been known to say, "Oh what a beautiful meadow!" without realizing that if we hadn't been working at it for so long, the "meadow" would be nothing but weeds and brush. Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "k s swigart" <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:11 PM Subject: [RC] Why "Naturalists" are Doomed It is statements like this that demonstrate why so many self-proclaimed naturalists or environmentalists are doomed to frustration and failure. Being human themselves, there is nothing they (or any other human for that matter) can do that is "natural." In this case, the only "natural" solution would be the extinction of humans. kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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