Re: What's the best energy source? - wealth and per capita impacts

>Wirt Atmar writes: > >...I am more than modestly encouraged by the general trends >that the developed nations of the world, and most especially the United States, >are undergoing in minimizing their environmental footprints. > >No one planned these minimizations. They are simply the results of >in

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Re: Regarding natural selection pressures on humans

Hello David, your questions are good ones. The first world societies that spend little time interacting with the natural world and have the ability to innoculate themselves from common illnesses such as flu also live longer but have smaller family sizes. I wonder what the impact of these 2 fact

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Re: Regarding natural selection pressures on humans

Sharif, Sorry, I didn't mean to imply I thought we were as isolated from the natural world as some may think. But we would be hard pressed to deny that many in the so-called First World hardly come into contact with the natural world; I mean contact in the full sense of the word in this context.

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Re: What's the best energy source?

John Korfmach writes: > We may not be burning rainforests in the US these days, but--how much > of our own rainforests (and tallgrass prairies, white-pine forests, > baldcypress swamps, freshwater marshes, etc. etc.) have we eliminated > in the past in order to support our society's 'footpri

Re: Regarding natural selection pressures on humans

I dont think that we are as isolated from the natural world as we think. The field of zoonotics is all about how diseases pass from animals to humans. The recent concerns over avian flu, and West Nle virus show how much we are still very much tied to the natural world. Original Message Fol

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Re: EVOLUTION Behavior Re: current natural selection pressures

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