OT: Tree Quantity vs. Quality

[Guest guest]

Hi Linda,

 

> > .. we are NOT short of forests in the USA.

>

> But we will be if we don't curtail run-a-way consumerism and

> insatiable greed, unless you think monocropping fast-growing pines

> can make up for the loss of ancient, diverse forests. Apparently the

> state of Ohio thinks so...

> Linda

 

Today its fiction based on future truth .. if we want to face the truth,

that man will continue to multiply and there will be many more billions

of mouths to feed .. world-wide some day. Most likely after you and I

and all the other folks on this list have gone under the folks remaining

are gonna have to make some tough decisions. Living in Outer Space and

living and farming beneath the sea can only help so much.

 

That's not to say that we should accept this as inevitable and do

nothing about conservation today .. but whatever we do is but a

temporary measure that will give us and our kids and grandkids warm

fuzzies to see all that natural land around us .. but our grandkids will

also have grandkids and things are not going to be so easy at that time.

 

Natural disasters, wars, disease and famine might be the solution to

future problems. Nature does a great job of controlling her own except

for mankind. We do ourselves in if left to our own devices. Butch