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Originally posted by Diogenes Of Pumpkintown:
The mere fact that you have to suggest changes in lifestlye to accomodate the increase in population shows that population growth is playing a major role.
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Dio you are wrong. The problems have always been there. The technology has not. Humans in our type of culture have always had problems living with their environment. Rome during the Empire couldn't feed itself, and had to import mountains of grain from north Africa. During the rise and rise of Rome, the soils of Italy became comparitively barren. The English chopped down forest after forest in Ireland for defensive purposes. (Against the Irish) The changes in lifestyle have nothing to do with population size and everything to do with the extremity of the journey. Humans could keep expanding, hacking into the Amazon, the Daintree and huge Aussie forests and keep on with the same processes. Sooner or later the
attitude will destroy what's left. There
is much unspoiled land throughout the world. Thankfully we are becomeing alert to our excesses.
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