Population control

2007-12-08 Thread Osmar Luiz Jr
I'm very glad to see the commitment of the North Americans in assume the = guilt for them. Maybe I should alleviate my consciousness, but I'm not. = Unlike most of them, I do not consider the CO2 emissions the only one or = the major problem driven climate change. I'm still concerned with habitat

Re: population control - about the shrimp farms

2007-12-02 Thread Osmar Luiz Jr
omplexity, >> third world poor are often displaced to marginal, >> high risk areas by >> government or by them as have the clout and means to >> persuade >> government to allow it (to put in a resort, replace >> mangroves with >> shrimp farm, etc, etc) so the

Re: population control

2007-12-01 Thread Osmar Luiz Jr
I just wondered what kind of people developed this ecological footprint quiz, because for me its seen biased and flawed. Naïve, at best. You said that first world kids will have larger footprints that third world kids. Because poor third world kids don't travel by planes, they walk by feet because

Re: She will not have babies

2007-11-28 Thread Osmar Luiz Jr
A third world view on childfree ideology. Here in Brazil, anyone who decides to not have kids in an attempt to save the world, will soon became frustrated in seeing uneducated and miserable couples in slums having 6 or 7 or even 10 children. The decision is clearly useless and is clear to me

Re: "unoccupied" niches and 'competitive exclusion"

2007-11-23 Thread Osmar Luiz Jr
onclusions than keep trying to find rigid theoretical definitions. apologizes for the english Osmar Luiz Jr. Brazil - Original Message - From: "Warren W. Aney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 4:18 PM Subject: Re: "unoccupied" ni

Re: Another picture

2007-11-23 Thread Osmar Luiz Jr
Hello, I've been out of this list for many years and signed it again two days ago. I'm very glad to see that it shifted from mainly naive questions about environmentalism to serious discussions about the science of ecology like that exciting messages about the niche theory. Back to the central