>Jay Hanson:
>
>>Unfortunately, there are no other alternatives. Once we overshot carrying
>>capacity we were left with only two choices:
>>
>>#1. Be managed like farm animals.
>>
>>#2. Dieoff like wild animals.
Dear Jay:
I do not like either/or answers, I much prefer to seek the possibilities of
and/and answers. Given, for the sake of argument, that we have overshot
carrying capacity, the third answer might be self management. In other
words, when a truth becomes self obvious - which the carrying capacity
metaphor is not to the majority of the worlds population, then change
becomes possible - voluntary change.
Also, we have used a very successful strategy in the past which is war.
Though morally I don't condone war, it has successfully reduced populations
and provided the needed impedus for new thought and new paradigms. It is
true, there are some ghastly tales around like Thor Hyderals books on Easter
Island about when a population exceeds the carrying capacity of an
environment. However, even in that nightmare, there were eventually
survivors who did not have to resort to gamekeepers and found the strength
to start over again with reduced resources.
In nature, there are a number of examples of massive population die-off such
as lemmings and the seven year rabbit cycle that still retain the
possibility of regeneration without an outside authority, the gamekeepers
you postulate.
I would suggest that catastrophe is one of natures strategies for
eliminating gamekeepers, as in the case of the rabbits, the foxes and wolfs
also die off.
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
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