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Beginning of the Jolly Good
Feller Scenario
Fires in Alaska, felled trees in Canada and Siberia. It was really up to the
people. Fellers exceeded planters .
Where ever there is humankind, there is depletion. There just seems to be a
really dark side to the human psyche. People seem to be takers.
I hear the gambling phrase, "winner takes all". But it really amounts to loser
takes all. I mean, it's obvious, you just can't be taking things without being
able to put something back. But that's how these people are. And it's been going
on for a longtime now.
Even back in prehistoric times, many animals were depleted by human hunters --
such animals as the woolly mammoth. Also throughout history, trees had been
depleted, with hardly anyone putting anything back. I mean, it's so easy to
replant trees. Human beings don't even have to do it. They just give the seeds
to the squirrels and the squirrels will go out and plant the trees.
This is not just a problem with trees. When I was in the Pacific . I heard about
local skin diver's going out with plastic bags filled with bleach. They popped
the bags open along the coral reef and the bleach killed everything for huge
radius, and then the diver just went down and gathered the fish. Others would
set off charges of dynamite and just go in the water and gather all the dead
fish. They must have thought they were using dine I might.
It's a disappointing to hear the "oh, well" attitude people have when confronted
with the depleted resource. You wonder how they could be so stupid, how pathetic
and incapable of reasoning. I get to the point where have to realize that these
people really are that way and they have to be pitied. After all, it is really
terribly pathetic.
There is a great benefit to renewing a resource. Maybe not immediately
economically, but then money is worthless. I want you to realize, kid, if people
stopped believing the money was worth anything, it would all go out the window
tomorrow and there would be nothing left but oblivion, and people killing each
other in the streets and herding children for food because eating adults would
be too unpleasant for cannibals.
But nevertheless renewing a resource does bear great economic return. For
example helping fish stock in the sea to renew themselves would yield tremendous
economic prosperity, not only for fishermen, but for a whole slew of related
economic activities. If people had feeding stations in their yard not just for
wild birds, but also for squirrels, and the appropriate squirrel food would be
the actual tree seeds themselves, usually in the form of very nutritious nuts,
there would be a tremendous renewal of arboreal resources and subsequent
prosperity -- extreme prosperity for every economic aspect of the related
communities.
That's what I mean when I say, sometimes have to wonder how those people could
be so stupid. They sit there and wonder why they've got recessions, economic
hardships, labor and management problems, cook-the-bookers, white-collar crime,
just any old kind of crime -- it's all related to this take-only mentality,
where the fellers exceed the planters.
And, lookout Buddy, because here they come -- everybody's singing "for he's a
Jolly Good Feller" -- and they're just beginning to get wound up. This is only
the beginning of the Jolly Good Feller scenario. This is where some feel-good
idiot starts asking "are we having fun yet?".
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This is not just a problem with trees.
27 March, 2005
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