Yes, but confining "applied" to a separate journal, complete with the
damning appellation, does not foster cross-fertilization.
WT
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Yes, and it doesn't end there. The fertilizer used to increase and narrow
the nutrient aspect of the site carrying capacity (to increase productive
potential) as well as any irrigation is a direct subsidy, but much of that
input is wasted through leaching (including, but not limited to groundwat
Related to this, an esteemed colleague sent an email (below) to another
Listserve that literally blew my mind.
It reads:
"friends
Bill Gates has a blog, which I occasionally read.
he reviews Vaclav Smils book here:
http://mobile.thegatesnotes.com/Books/Energy/Harvesting-the-Biosphere
And in midd
It's not that it's not regulated, it's just that in our measure of time the
regulation is taking place slowly (it's a mere blink, however, in geologic
time). We will go the way of all species that have been profoundly
"successful" and literally (and "virtually") screwing ourselves into
oblivion
Thank you for finally nudging toward the real root of most of our
problems - unregulated human population explosion.
Is it ethical that the goal of humanity seems to be to ensure that at
some point, all carbon atoms on earth are either in the form of human
bodies or plastics at the same time?
Vina and All:
Yes, the right kind of integration of crop plants into an existing
ecosystem, particularly those that are either indigenous or unlikely to
reproduce, yet have their requirements met by the ecosystem with limited
displacement of indigenous species' populations (maintaining viable,
Quite so!
Careful integration of suitable plants into ecosystems rather than replacing
them with "human-assembled" pseudo-systems that require "management" is one
way of retaining ecosystem integrity and increasing the usefulness of PART
of the ecosystem for one species, the most invasive of a
Sure, humans are part of the earth's ecosystem, and at some point Homo
sapiens will reach a level of consumption that backlashes profoundly enough
that the level of degradation will be severe enough, or the crash in
population significant enough, that "we" will be reduced to, say, eating
nothin
There is nothing new about ecologists thinking about integration of humans
into ecosystems. In the paper that defined "ecosystems", Arthur Tansley
(1935) wrote:
“Ecology must be applied to to conditions brought about by human
activities. The ‘natural’ entities and their anthropogenic derivatives
I have been doing self-sufficient (no irrigation, no fertilizer, no "weed
control," or other external inputs) since 1972 (retired from business in 2000),
and I do not consider my work to be "human-assembled." In fact, I don't think
anybody actually DOES ecosystem restoration, but we can set up c
At some point we run up against another interesting question and divide
when discussing the issue of human assembled ecosystems and invasive vs
native species.
Until relatively recently much of the agriculture around the world was more
similar to the edible landscape/forest gardening model than ou
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This has been an extremely interesting thread.
Now if we could just
This has been an extremely interesting thread.
Now if we could just admit that humans are part of ecology/ecosystem and their
deeds and actions are 'natural', much of the discord may evaporate.
Let us leave Christian (Also Ancie
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So you pick feral cats over, for example, cattle? Cattle that negatively impact
soil and water quality and increase erosion, which in turn negatively affect
insects and bird communities (to name just a few impacts). Cattle that
introduced brucellosis, which spread amongst countless wildlife? We
I believe that almost everybody on this list is aware
Dear Thomas,
I believe that almost everybody on this list is aware that "Even highly
diverse, apparently sustainable agricultural systems – like
the forest gardens of lowland Samoa – wind up displacing/destroying much
biodiversity when hum
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