i am not as optomistic as you, but you may well be here if we ever do get it
together, my family practices what i can only call pratcile conservation,
and if everyone would do that some of the other more disturbing aspects of
humanity might fall into place, Lee


"Landon" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:05:29 -0500, "Storrmmee"
> > wrote:
>
>>wpnderful story, reminds me of my grandfather, part of the native culture
>>is
>>using only what you need, not what you want, so the remaining is left to
>>flourish and replentish, almost more important than the plants thenselves,
>>is the philospoy of the gathering and husbanding of same, Lee
>
> The whole key to the survival of our species is balance. We are so far
> out of balance now that it will take drastic measures to come back
> into balance without major loss of life to our species. Look what
> we've already done to other species.
>
> Look at what we've done to our own already.
>
> Turning a blind eye to the destruction we're causing to earth won't do
> anything but make the outcome more radical. Lesson the number of
> survivors who will be tasked with rebuilding what we've destroyed, and
> in turn making that rebuilding take much longer than it would take if
> we started now.
>
> Does anyone doubt that IF our species actually does live through our
> own mass suicide, that *all* humans will work together finally? It may
> be ten thousand years before we do so, but I firmly believe that we,
> as a species, will finally learn to live as one people on the entire
> planet. I wish I could be there when it happens.
>
> Your right Storrmmee, Namey said her tribe never used what wasn't
> needed. They didn't allow greed to flourish among them. She said they
> had an outcast system for those who disobeyed tribal values in any
> extreme. Kind of a "Our way or the highway".
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