Well, if nothing else, this thread has been illuminating. You never know how some people think.
Well, I do now, anyway.
Well, I do now, anyway.
happychem said:I don't know if I agree with that, or at least not 100%.
Your so-called increase in productivity is only from a human perspective. With the exception of GMO's and hybrids, the actual productivity has changed very little. Crop rotations don't increase productivity, they decrease the rate of soil depletion. While infinitely better in terms of soil health, they also result in a greater area necessary to grow the same quantity of food, I would define that as a decrease in productivity, where I'm defining productivity as food produced per unit area. This also means a greater amount of deforestation. While some of this wood will be used as lumber, when increasing agricultural area, most is slash and burn, which means converting carbon from plant matter to greenhouse gases, ultimately, CO2.
Beeker said:Happychem,
I would agree with you if your information were correct. Fortunately for the Earth and its inhabitants, the information about global warming and such are lies. Over 18000 scientists including the head of the department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Studies at MIT explain that fears about global warming are based on myth. Many of them will go on to say that environmentalism is being driven to promote a more sinister agenda of land grabs and enslavement.
Another myth widely spoken about is overpopulation. It will never happen. Our country alone contains about a third of the population of the planet, and central U.S. is still barely populated. Those who promote the myth of overpopulation are most commonly those elitists that promote eugenics and enslavement. Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, etc.
Beeker said:I just wanted to clarify: not all industrialists are evil, look at Henry Ford. He was a good man. I used the term "elitists" to be more specific.
You lost me. What prey items? I'm not going to argue about the extent of the cull, perhaps it is high. Other than that article, which I consider to be of repudable source, I've not researched the numbers. I agree that 50k sounds high, but again, an issue of scale. It looks like about a 10% cull. Is that a lot? I don't know, we'd have to ask a wildlife biologist in the field.slipknottin said:Youve got to figure, if there is that much of an abundant supply of food for these animals, that there is a waste of resouces somewhere. Either that other animals that also eat these foods have been eliminated, or that the bears are not in sufficient numbers yet to control these prey items (wether plant or animal).