Nicholas Geti wrote: > I don't bother explaining anymore. Basically, I don't see much hope for our > planet. People are popping out more and more babies all the time without any > thought as to how they will survive in the future. Everytime humans have > moved into a tiny environment like Easter Island and many others, they very > quickly overpopulate and destroy it.
Hi Nicholas, Really? Maybe you are thinking of the wrong Easter, or the wrong Island? Easter Island has actually had the opposite problem many times. "In recent times the island has been used as a cautionary tale for the cultural and environmental dangers brought upon by the overexploitation of resources, however this theory is now being contested by ethnographers and archaeologists alike who argue that the introduction of diseases carried by European colonizers and slave raiding, which devastated the population in the 1800s, had a much greater social impact than environmental decline and that introduced animals, first rats and then sheep, were greatly responsible for the island's loss of native flora which came closest to deforestation as recently as 1930-1960." "Devastated the population" - as in hardly any people at all. They still have only a few thousand, often importing spouses. That said, I don't know how much stone they have left after carving all those statues. What is stone used for nowadays, anyway, barbecue pits? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
