Muscatine

Joe is a liberal phoney poster from other days, perhaps?

Please continue posting, by all means.

Overpopulation will take care of itself if we let it. Just like it does in the animal kingdom, through starvation and disease. But, we feel we must interfere by feeding masses of people who insist on squating on land that hasn't grown a blade of grass in anyone's memory, all the while pumping out more fly covered kids.

Wars work too but use up too many resources.

Hi,

Thank you. Without digging to deeply, and forgive my lack of understanding, but phoney poster would be what?  "school of logic." Did he/she literally educate, or just a sense of self awareness cast upon other writers/posters? And has that person gone?  Regardless I will be fairly prolific a writer as long as my sense of humor and opinions are accepted. But seriously, don't we, people as a whole, have some obligation to talk to each other and try to iron out some of these problems from around the globe. I understand we get wrapped up in fringe issues, personal feelings, apathy, jaded mindsets and such. My dad has a great  friend up in Winona who sat on the county board for several years, who got so tired of the petty little ditties people worried about, that he said &*&% it all. We have so much more serious troubles in the world than to get on some poor shmoe's back over flowers being too close to the mailbox. He up and quit.

I don't know the answer, but at times it just seems we have given up on the problems our children and their children's children might face, that today we don't. Our daughter is still a baby  by all the world's eye, and we are thirty somethings. I know it's perhaps more important for some to just try and live a good life, but isn't that one of the major points, you have to look further ahead to help guide your children to help make this a better world. For us anyway that's true. So is it really too much to ask others to try also? I get it, for some that's too much prodding, leave me alone, I don't bother anybody and such. But with all the people milling about this world, someone should be able to coax into light some good workable ideas? The Liberal/conservative/independant thing; I never really understood these designations. Oh I understand the pointed application, but there seems to be no faith. No middle grounds. There are fences and penalties for going over one or the other. It gets so twisted up. If common sense can tell a person that they have been wrong and a mind is changed now and then, then how doesn't that make a person flexible, moderate, independant. My dad always said that a willow stands through adversity because she's a flexible beauty, conservative when she must be and liberal when she must. Willows live a long time in areas other more rigid and mighty trees cannot, because they are flexible. It stands to reason then that once we are solidly this or that, we set ourselves up for eventual failure. Just call me Willow.

Lucy.

Lucy.

Hi

Oh Nedl, you are quite the charmer. But in your clever post, is more than your answer seems to offer. Resources are already the issue. Used up resources is already the interference of our tranquility that keeps us digging and chopping for more. We are chopping off the limbs we sit upon. I don't want to dabble in the spiritual undertones missed here, but wars and rumors of wars, dwindleing resources(especially) oil and the like. Dying oceans, dissapearing forests, millions of miles of concrete, pestilence, terrorism, and above all else the greed that drives much of these issues. Holy mother Mary.....Something has got to be done before it's  unstopable. You take the stadium after Katrina. The world is much like that in priciple. A hundred bodies doing what they naturally do and they can be sustained for a long time. 5000 bodies and their time will be short in that finite area. Our earth isn't any less affected that way. I think it was Bigbrother who said it well, "How did we have ice ages and oceans covering most of the land? How did the earth manage to remain? " Or something like that, "without humans." It didn't. He's not getting the point he made himself. We didn't exist, so it wasn't a problem no matter how the earth evolved. If it happens again, we will no longer be here then either. I think what mallory is saying, is.....we must stop what we are doing, both in depletion and making those "fly coverd kids" In spite of the fact that some don't want to try or don't care. The global weather is most likey changing faster as a result too. I hate to say it, but China has it right. As fast as we can, we are over loading the kitchen with more mouths and less food, with less resources to try and make the food. I know we seem to agree, but it's the resource issues we don't. It will be costly to everyone to change our ways and less profitable for those who want more of it. But, don't you think that if we do not start, sooner or later we won't be able. Raging against the dying of the light.

Chicken Little out.

Lucy