tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post1437899071625766143..comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Comments on What Is Sustainable: Wild Free and Happy Sample 15What Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-86630570134496188902019-05-18T14:59:17.927-07:002019-05-18T14:59:17.927-07:00Hi Amarnath!
Well, you traded youth for wisdom, e...Hi Amarnath!<br /><br />Well, you traded youth for wisdom, eh? I’m 66, and stuff is starting to get dodgy. I prefer this outcome to dying young, strong, and daffy.<br /><br />The megafauna are mostly gone because they take a long time to reach reproductive age. Sadly, they never had time to evolve projectile-proof hides. Bacteria, insects, weeds, fungi, and viruses can reproduce at high speed, and generate lots of mutations. Thus, it doesn’t take long for them to develop resistance to our antibiotics, fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, etc. <br /><br />Once upon a time, large predators did a good job of preventing population outbursts in humans. But we got too good at killing them, and too good at increasing our food resources. As human populations soared, and jammed together in megacities with poultry, waterfowl, livestock, vermin, and intensive filth, Big Mama Nature enlisted smaller beings to assist in population management. They went right to work.<br /><br />One way or another, balance will be restored. By definition, an unsustainable way of life can only be temporary. Every day, the catastrophe is drifting closer and closer to an era of merciless healing. Techno magic is unlikely to shower us with miracles.<br />What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-82300192272258784552019-05-17T13:47:08.193-07:002019-05-17T13:47:08.193-07:00Another thoughtful essay.
One more thought.
The...Another thoughtful essay. <br />One more thought. <br />The advantage of predators, that include germs, is not only to curb population growth but also avoiding decaying old age. <br />In the tropical village I lived when I was young, it is common for weak babies and old people to succumb to infectious diseases. <br />My grand father worked as a Hindu priest until the last month of his life and he could recite all the mantras until then. He just fell ill, ran high temperature and was called by god. How lucky! <br />Now I, in the early seventies, look dreadfully to ten to fifteen years of unproductive life dependent on care-takers for basic life activities. <br />May be I should decline vaccine shots. <br />Sir William Osler wrote in his classic turn-of-the-century medical textbook, The Principles and Practice of Medicine: “Pneumonia may well be called the friend of the aged. Taken off by it in an acute, short, not often painful illness, the old man escapes those ‘cold gradations of decay’ so distressing to himself and to his friends.”<br />Amarnathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10045911629669056107noreply@blogger.com